📌 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...

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...

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 📣 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...

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

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.

📄 New Working Paper: Mutual Knowledge of Social Norms And Political Behavior by Anselm Hager, Elnura Kazakbaeva, Lukas Hensel and Damir Esenaliev!

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Fragile Lives is returning this year and will once again host the Households in Conflict Network (hashtag#HiCN) Annual Workshop. Join us on 30 September - 1 October 2025 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the heart of Berlin for Fragile Lives 2025! hicn.org/call-for-pap...

Help us drive policy impact: ISDC is hiring a Communications Officer! 📣 For one of our flagship research projects on Syria, we are looking for a motivated and proactive person to translate our research findings into policy-relevant products. Find the full job-ad here: isdc.org/work-with-us...

REMINDER: We currently have two exciting job opportunities that are closing soon! You can find both job ads on our website: isdc.jobs.personio.de

Are you a graduate with strong quantitative skills? Do you want your work to tackle real world questions on how to build peace, mitigate violence and support non-violent forms of conflict resolution? ISDC is hiring a Junior Researcher for our Peacebuilding Research Program! isdc.jobs.personio.de

We're thrilled to announce that Timur Cipa has joined our Behavior Research Program! Timur’s work will explore how multidimensional crises in Sudan affect livelihoods and how interventions can support affected populations. Welcome to ISDC, Timur!

🚨 ONE WEEK LEFT 🚨 ISDC is hiring a Senior Researcher (f/m/d) and the deadline to apply is now this Sunday (12.01.2025)! We're looking for someone with a PhD and strong quantitative research skills, with experience working in and on fragile and conflict-affected settings. isdc.jobs.personio.de

On 8 December, the trajectory of life in Syria changed substantially. In light of the significant moment the Syrian people are experiencing, we’ve curated a collection of our work from more than 10 years of conducting research in the country. s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com//files.crsen...

Now available in Global Food Security 📜 'Armed conflict and gendered participation in agrifood systems: Survey evidence from 29 African countries' In this paper the authors combine large-N survey data with temporally and spatially disaggregated conflict event data from 29 African countries.