SIPRI Director co-edits book on microeconomics of violent conflict

10 December 2013

SIPRI Director Professor Tilman Brück, together with Patricia Justino and Philip Verwimp, has edited a volume on the microeconomics of violent conflict entitled A Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence, and Development.

The book, which has been published by Oxford University Press, features 14 chapters on topics ranging from ‘The social geography of armed conflict’ and ‘Risk, security, and coping mechanisms in contexts of violent conflict’ to ‘The burden of armed conflict’ and ‘The European Union, conflict transformation, and civil society’.

Brück is a co-author, together with Carlos Bozzoli and Nina Wald, of a chapter entitled ‘Evaluating Programmes in Conflict-Affected Areas: Promoting Peace from the Bottom Up?’.

The editors write:

Whilst traditional studies into conflict have been through an international /regional lens with the state as the primary unit of analysis, the micro-level perspective offered by this volume places the individuals, households, groups and communities affected by conflict at the centre of analysis. Studying how people behave in groups and communities; and how they interact with the formal and informal institutions that manage local tensions, is crucial to understanding the conflict cycle.

The book is targeted at academics, researchers, and students of politics, international relations, economics, and development studies.

Read more about the book or browse more publications by Tilman Brück.