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On May 3, 2016 the ERC Starting Grant Project “” is organizing a workshop with the survey advisory board in preparation for the launching of a large-scale survey among conflict-generated migrants and diasporas in Europe.

This survey workshop builds on series of inter-coder discussions and tests conducted at PAIS in 2014-2016. Six conflict-generated diasporas will be polled – Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian, Kurdish, Iraqi and Palestinian – in five Western European countries – France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This survey will be path-breaking with its large-scale scope and endeavours to combine hypotheses from a variety of scholarly domains in order to account for the substance and levels of transnational diaspora mobilization.

More information can be found .

The ERC Project “” and the PAIS organize a public lecture by Dr. Neophytos Loizides, Reader in Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, on 28 April, 2016, 12:00 - 14:00 in S0.20.

The public lecture is entitled "Rethinking Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Post-Ottoman Neighborhood and Beyond" and will present innovative theories about institutional design of divided societies. Refreshments will be served.

More information can be obtained .

A new blog post by Professor , entitled 'Europe's border crisis as an autoimmune disorder', has been published by the European Green Journal.

"A crisis point has emerged, whereby the figure of the ‘irregular’ migrant is seen as both a security threat to the European Union (EU) and its borders and as a life that is itself threatened and in need of saving by the EU and its agencies. This contradiction leads to paradoxical situations in the field of EU border politics whereby humanitarian policies and practices frequently expose ‘irregular’ migrants to dehumanising and sometimes lethal security mechanisms."

The full article can be accessed here:

Dr has recently given a seminar for the Research Department External Seminar Series.

In his seminar, titled ‘On the Heterogeneous Consequences of Civil War’, Dr Bove shows how the occurrence of a civil war has heterogeneous effects on the level of GDP, using case-study, synthetic control and large-N panel-data approaches. He first discusses the relation between these methods and then provide lower and upper estimates of the economic effect of civil war. Although, on average, the incidence of internal conflicts has a negative effect on the GDP level, it is very often insignificant. More importantly, however, both methods display a wide variety of individual separate effects, and in a large number of countries civil war has either no effect or a positive and significant impact on the prospect for economic growth.

PAIS PhD student was invited to present at the LSE Conference on 'Everyday Humanitarianism'.

Marco's paper was entitled: 'A Responsibility to Profit? Social Impact Bonds as a Form of Humanitarian Finance'.

Abstract:

Recent years have seen the emergence of new forms of ‘social impact investing’ which aim to achieve the dual objective of producing a social outcome while earning financial returns on capital. One subset of impact investing vehicles is the so-called social impact bond (SIB), geared towards financing social welfare services. Across the Global North and the Global South, SIBs are now being rolled out to facilitate humanitarian purposes through market means. In an effort to trace the politics of such “humanitarian finance”, Marco engages a case study of the London Homelessness SIB, which seeks to improve outcomes for entrenched rough sleepers.

Further details of this ongoing project on ethical finance and the politics of impact investing can be found here: