🚨A new study published in Nature Communications provides the first empirical evidence of a "chain of violence" connecting political violence to domestic harm against children and adolescents.
📖 Read the full open-access paper via this link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
War is costly, but peace isn’t free either. 🚨📄
In their new paper 'Financing Peace Negotiations', the authors examine how peace negotiations are funded, and how this shapes processes and outcomes.
🔗📄Full paper is now available: brill.com/view/journal...
Our Director @tilmanbrueck.bsky.social gave an interview to the NZZ this week on the "true costs" of the Iran war, focusing on growth and human development.
Available (in German) via the link below! 👇
www.nzz.ch/podcast/mehr...
Calling all Berlin-based data students! 📣
We're looking for a Student Research Assistant to join our Welfare Research Program!
Find out more about the role and submit your application before 12 April by clicking on this link: isdc.org/work-with-us...
In his latest paper, "A microeconomic perspective on violent conflicts and peace," @tilmanbrueck.bsky.social explores why this disregard for peace-measurement is a systemic risk to our global institutions.
👉The paper is available in German: elibrary.klettcotta.de/article/10.2...
📣 Out now #openaccess in Food Security: Half of all households in 4 African countries faced moderate-to-severe food insecurity early in the #COVID-19 #pandemic!
doi.org/10.1007/s125...
#foodsecurity #Africa
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We're very happy that Caitriona Dowd and Juan Vargas will be joining us on 30 September and 1 October to give the Fragile Lives 2026 keynote speeches 🎤!
If you are as excited to see these keynote speeches as we are, you're in luck! The call for papers is still open 👉 zerohunger.de/wp-content/u...
Call for papers: Fragile Lives 2026. The themes of interest include lives, livelihoods, farming, gender, migration, forced displacemnt, food security, nutrition, poverty, inequality, political behaviour, peacebuilding, demography, mental health, public health, climate change, shocks, coping strategies, and the impacts of policies and programs. Submit by 7 April 2026
Fragile Lives is returning to @isdcberlin.bsky.social Berlin on 30 September and 1 October 2026, once again inviting papers and sessions that analyze the micro-level causes, dynamics and consequences of crisis, insecurity, and violent conflict around the world.
isdc.org/call-for-pap...
🚨 Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2026 📣
Fragile Lives is returning to Berlin on 30 September and 1 October 2026, and we're once again inviting papers and sessions!
See the full CfP and submit your work 👉 zerohunger.de/wp-content/u...
📢 11th DENeB PhD Workshop 📢
taking place on April 17, 2026, in Berlin, hosted at
@isdcberlin.bsky.social
We’re excited to welcome Karlijn Morsink as our keynote speaker!
Sponsored by
@Geo_X_
🔗 Apply by February 27, 2026
⬇️ Links in the comments! ⬇️
Is the humanitarian aid system at a breaking point 🌍 ?
We were thrilled to host Julia Steets, Director of GPPi, in Berlin, for a seminar on a topic that is affecting us all: "The end of humanitarian aid? Dealing with scarcity and power shifts."
More details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
The European Network of Early Career Agricultural Economists is hosting an online seminar at 2pm CET on 21 January 2026, exploring the topic of “Agricultural Development and Conflict: Research Trends and Field Realities”
Learn more about the event and join online! sites.google.com/view/ageconm...
Can cash transfers (or other economic interventions) address intimate partner violence early in life?
Audrey pereira's first PhD paper tackles this question and is now available open access in Culture, Health & Sexuality!
Read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨📃New article alert: Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria'
This paper examines the combined effects of conflict and climate shocks on the social safety nets of households in fragile settings.
👉Read full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢Closing date for submissions: 31 December 2025
Tilman Brück and Wolfgang Stojetz will co-host the 2026 Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference at @humboldtuni.bsky.social in Berlin on 22-24 June 2026.
👉 See the full call and submit your abstract: lnkd.in/g_aM9U6
⏳ Only two days left to submit your papers for the special issue of the Journal of Development Effectiveness on the effects of peacebuilding approaches!
👉 Learn more and submit your manuscript: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
The deadline is 12 December 2025.
Read the full study in the @UNU-WIDER Working Paper series: https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/jobs-and-livelihoods-programming-economic-and-social-stability-fragile-places
📢 New Working Paper: Jobs and Livelihoods for Stability in Fragile Places 🚨
Tatiana Orozco García and Neil Ferguson evaluate support to SMEs in Tunisia and Somalia, implemented by Stichting SPARK to develop demand-driven local growth.
Read full study @unu-wider.bsky.social: shorturl.at/8kEFz
How can we tackle collective & interpersonal violence in fragile settings? At #FragileLives hosted by @isdcberlin.bsky.social UNICEF Evaluation's, Amber Peterman shared insights on integrated, evidence-based approaches. 👉 zerohunger.de/fragile-live...
We're looking for a Junior Researcher (f/m/d) to join our Behavior Research Program.
If you have strong skills in statistical analysis, experience working in or on fragile and transition settings, and a social science master's degree, we want to hear from you! isdc.jobs.personio.de/job/2251639?...
Audrey holds a Master of Science in Public Health in health systems and economics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a PhD in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Welcome to the team!
Before joining us, she worked at the UNICEF Evaluation Office, the UNICEF Office of Research, and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). She has also consulted for FAO, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and The World Bank.
We are thrilled to have Audrey Pereira join ISDC as a Senior Researcher in our Welfare Research Program.
Audrey brings deep expertise in social protection, gender, and child- and youth-wellbeing, with a focus on developing contexts.
The webinar will take place on 3 July 2025 at 9:00 am CEST. Please register via email to
brac@seebohm.berlin.
The center of the webinar is the recent BRAC Failure Report, from which co-author Kazi Ashfaqul will give unusual insights into past BRAC’s past mistakes and their learnings. ISDC Director Tilman Brück will contribute his expertise.
What should we do when projects fail?
There is an incentive to ignore mistakes, especially when the political or social context is regards economic development cooperation sceptically. Despite that, there is large potential to increase effectiveness through open analysis.
I look forward to this week's dialogue on a (sadly) timely topic: Sudden aid cuts @langlotzsarah.bsky.social @isdcberlin.bsky.social @adreher.bsky.social @kiel.institute @uni-goettingen.de @fuchsa.bsky.social
In Helsinki for the UNU-WIDER conference where I’ll present @isdcberlin.bsky.social work on the long term impacts of conflict on Syrian refugees in Jordan.
📣 The call for panels for our flagship event, the EADI/IOB general conference is out!
📅 Submit by 7 September 2025
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
Happening this week!
Sign up via the link 👇
Very happy that Ghassan Baliki and Sahar El Hachem will talk about our ongoing work with FCDO (and more) in a 3D Seminar on 22 May!
Register today so you don't miss this insightful event! 👇 listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...