Belén González is presenting the paper "The benefits and costs of concessions: explaining the lack of escalating violence in the Chilean democratic transition" at the University of Heidelberg, 27 January 2017. This paper is co-authored with Sabine Carey and based on fieldwork carried out in October 2015.
Sabine Carey will give a public keynote lecture on "The Political Economy of State Violence" at the international conference "The Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship". This conference is organised by Thomas Apolte, University of Münster, Mario Gilli, Bocconi University Milan and Yuan Li, University of Duisburg-Essen and held at the University of Münster, 22-24 February 2017. See the conference website.
Sabine Carey is presenting ongoing work on the escalation of repression with Belén González and Neil Mitchell at the Economics & Politics Seminar at the University of Heidelberg, 13 December 2016.
Belén González published a guest post for the Political Violence @ a Glance Blog on "Understanding Duterte's 'Dirty War' in the Philippines"
In a new study in Journal of Peace Research, Anita Gohdes and Sabine Carey show that the killings of journalists can act as early warning indicator for worsening overall repression. Download the ungated article.
Sabine Carey and Neil Mitchell published the article "Pro-Government Militias and Conflict" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. It examines the supply of and demand for these groups in civil war and how they shape such conflicts.
Sabine Carey is speaking on publishing in peer-reviewed journals at a training programme for female junior scholars, organised by the "Mentoring und Training Programm" of the Landeskonferenz der Gleichstellungsbeauftragten an den Wissenschaftlichen Hochschulen Baden-Württembergs. The event takes place at the University of Mannheim on October 24, 2016.
Sabine Carey participates in the conference on "The political economy of state repression" at Princeton University, October 21-22, 2016. The conference is organized by Laia Balcells (Duke University) and Carles Boix (Princeton University). She will present the joint project with Anita Gohdes on institutional determinants of journalist killings.
Sabine Carey participates in a workshop on "The impact of intra-war processes on post-conflict outcomes" at South Bend, Indiana, October 20, 2016, in conjunction with the 2016 Meeting of the Peace Science Society.
On 2 October 2016 Sabine Carey opened the Science Slam in Mannheim. She talked about why so many journalists are killed in democracies, based on a project with Anita Gohdes .
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Sabine Carey and Neil Mitchell published a policy briefing paper with the German Development Institute, in which they explain why foreign aid might encourage leaders to use militias. Download the briefing paper here.
New paper online, currently under review at the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia, where we review why governments use militias in civil wars, whether they are effective and how they influence the aftermath of conflict.
Sabine Carey and Neil Mitchell. 2015. "The Monopoly of Violence and the Puzzling Survival of Pro-Government Militias." submitted to the Annual Review of Political Science.
RATE (Repression and the Escalation of Violence) is a research project aimed at explaining the escalation and non-escalation of repression and intra-state armed conflict.
