📌 What changes minds in a warzone? Not always incentives or force, sometimes its dialogue, radio, or tailored support. At #FL2026, join Dr Henrique Barros (ISEG), Dr Tatiana Orozco (ISDC) & Dr Antonia Delius (Oxford) with evidence from Mozambique, Niger & Kenya. 👉 Register now! fl26.exordo.com

📌𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗔 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗲: Amber Peterman's keynote + a session on empowering women & girls in fragile settings 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝘄𝗼: Patricia Justino on trust erosion worldwide, 🔍 "Trust creates virtuous cycles." 👉 Registration for #FL2026 is open! Early bird ends 31 July: fl26.exordo.com

Register now! 📣 🎟️ Early bird tickets are now available for Fragile Lives 2026 Register here before 31 July to secure the early bird rate: fl26.exordo.com 📅 30 September – 1 October 2026 📍 martas Guesthouses Hauptbahnhof Berlin, Seydlitzstraße 20, 10557 Berlin We hope to see you in Berlin!

Prof. Tilman Brück, Founder and Director of ISDC, and Prof. Eran Edirisinghe, Dean of Research at the University of Central Asia, have officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding. This MoU reflects the continuity of a long-standing partnership. 👉'Life in Kyrgyzstan' Study: lifeinkyrgyzstan.org

We're hiring! If you're a Berlin-based student with an interest in communications or administration (and you care about our topics), we want to hear from you. Student Administrative Assistant (f/m/d): isdc.org/work-with-us... Student Communications Assistant (f/m/d): isdc.org/work-with-us...

🚨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...

Mehr als Bomben und Raketen: Die wahren Kosten des Iran-Kriegs - NZZ Geopolitik

Der Krieg gegen Iran verschlingt Milliarden und stösst in der amerikanischen Bevölkerung auf wachsende Ablehnung. Doch die Ausgaben für Waffen, Munition und Logistik sind nur ein Bruchteil der wahren ...

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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 1/n

The COVID-19 pandemic and food security: Micro-level evidence from Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Mozambique - Food Security

Food Security - The COVID-19 pandemic caused extensive food insecurity in low-income countries. However, most studies rely on aggregate-level exposure measures, overlooking individual-level...

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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...

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.

📢 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?...

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.

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

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On June 26, the 3D Seminar will continue with Angelika Budjan (University of Stuttgart) and Md Abu Bakar Siddiq (Tetra Tech), who will discuss the implications of sudden cuts in international aid for development cooperation and affected communities. Register at: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...

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/...

EADI/IOB 2026: Call for Panels: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local solutions?

29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for submissions: 7 September 2025

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3D Seminar@3dseminar.bsky.social · last yr.

Our next seminar will be held on May 22nd, at 3pm (UTC+2). Ghassan Baliki (ISDC) and Sahar El Hachem (FCDO) will discuss strategies for reducing and preventing violence against women in Syria. Register at: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...