Gender
- Incentives and Survival in Violent Conflicts
- M. Lavie / Microcon, 2011
- This paper analytically investigates the incentive scheme of perpetrators of violent conflicts. It provides a rational equilibrium framework to elicit how monetary incentives and survival consideratio...
- Weapons, Violence and the perpetrator-victim nexus in South Africa
- K. Thaler / Microcon, 2011
- Given the high levels of crime and violence in South Africa, there may be a temptation for citizens to arm themselves for protection. Using quantitative survey data from the Cape Area Panel Study and ...
- Displacement in Post-War Southern Sudan: Survival and Accumulation within Urban Perimeters
- A Walraet / Microcon, 2011
- This paper is about Southern Sudanese IDPs and refugees who, after the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, chose not to return to their areas of origin, but instead to resettle elsewhere. Rather than ...
- Forced Migration, Female Labour Force Participation, and Intra-household Bargaining: Does Conflict Empower Women?
- V Calderón / Microcon, 2011
- Civilian displacement is a common phenomenon in developing countries confronted with internal conflict. While displacement directly affects forced migrants, it also contributes to deteriorating labour...
- Religion versus ethnicity as a source of mobilisation: Are there differences?
- F. Stewart (ed) / Microcon, 2009
- The root causes of most violent conflicts lie in economic and political factors and inequalities of various types but usually, people are mobilised by ethnic or religious identities. This paper exp...
- UN peacekeeping economies and local sex industries: connections and implications
- K.M. Jennings;V. Nikolić-Ristanović / Microcon, 2009
- UN peacekeeping missions have been a major component of many conflict and post-conflict environments. The resultant ‘economies’ that emerge to accommodate such an influx of personnel - ...
- The impact of armed civil conflict on household welfare and policy responses
- P. Justino (ed) / Microcon, 2009
- This paper offers a framework for analysing the effects of armed conflicts on households and the ways in which households in turn respond to and cope with the conflicts. It distinguishes between di...
- Leaving Mogadishu: the war on terror and displacement dynamics in the Somali regions
- A. Lindley (ed) / Microcon, 2009
- This paper presents a two year qualitative micro-analysis of the causes and processes of Somalis flight from conflict in Mogadishu to relatively peaceful Somaliland. It explores how particular interac...
- A global view of horizontal inequalities: inequalities experienced by Muslims worldwide
- F. Stewart (ed) / Microcon, 2009
- Both within and across countries, most attention has been devoted to measuring inequality among individuals (and globally countries). Within countries, increasing evidence shows that inequalities amon...
- Do conflicts create poverty traps?: asset losses and recovery for displaced households in Colombia
- A.M. Ibáñez;A. Moya / Microcon, 2009
- Determining assets as key indicators of household welfare, the authors of this paper seek to analyse how asset losses occur during internal conflicts and the process of asset accumulation following...
