From 14-16 November we hosted a workshop on post-conflict intra-state peace and security. At this workshop we discussed early projects, including our initial findings from our surveys in Georgia, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The workshop brought together primarily young scholars from the US, Norway, Sweden, the UK and Germany. Click here for the programme.
Sabine Carey was presented joint research with Belén González on how pro-government militias (PGMs) affect repression in post-war societies at the workshop on ‘Micro-level perspective on peace’ at the University of Birmingham, 19 September 2018, organised by Martin Ottoman and Felix Haass and at the APSA Annual Convention in Boston. In this paper, they show that PGMs are associated with higher levels of repression after an armed conflict, this deterioration in human rights is driven by militias that already existed in the preceding conflict rather than ones that newly formed in the post-war period.
Sabine Carey is presenting a joint project with Anita Gohdes, University of Zurich, that aims to shed new insights into why journalists are killed by state authorities. She presents the paper at the Departmental Seminar Series at the University of Essex, Department of Government on 24 October 2017 and at Conflict Research Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 16 November 2017.
Source: Carey & Gohdes (2017)
Sabine Carey is presenting joint research with Belén González on post-war repression at the APSA Annual Convention in San Francisco, 30 August – 1 September 2017. As co-editor of the American Political Science Review she is also attending the APSR Board Meeting.
Sabine Carey is participating on a symposium of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Centenary, “Human Progress in the 21st Century – Bright and Dark Sides of Democratization”, organised by the University of Uppsala, 21 September 2017. Together with Erica Chenoweth and Carl-Henrik Knutsen she will talk about the Bright Side of Democratisation, chaired by Håvard Hegre.
Watch the panel discussion here.
Sabine Carey gave a lecture on the organisation of state violence at the University of Mainz on 10 July 2017. This lecture was part of a lecture series on human rights, open to students and the general public.
Sabine Carey talks to Mark Goldberg from Global Dispatches about her research with Anita Gohdes on the killings of journalists: "http://www.globaldispatchespodcast.com/what-political-science-can-teach-us-about/", based on their article in the Journal of Peace Research.
Sabine Carey will be giving a keynote lecture at the international workshop on Conflicts and Institutions, organized by the Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies (NAPS) at the University of Genoa, 21 June 2017. Other speakers include Stathis Kalyvas, Stefano Costalli, and Andrea Ruggeri.
Sabine Carey is presenting the paper 'Preparing for repression: how media constraints affect the escalation of repression', co-authored with Belén González (University of Mannheim) and Neil Mitchell (University College London) at Heidelberg University. The presentation takes place as part of the conference The International Dimension of Vertical Threats and Regime Security in Authoritarian Regimes at the Institute of Political Science, 16-17 February 2017.
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.
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.
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.
