First ReCIPE Annual Conference 2025

The first Reducing Conflict and Improving Performance in the Economy (ReCIPE) Annual Conference will take place on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th February 2025 at the Paris School of Economics.

This Annual Conference will bring together leading researchers and experts from diverse fields to discuss issues of conflict and fragility, and their connections with economic growth and public policies. Academic presentations as well as policy panels will be organised across a 2-day programme, centred around the key research themes of the new ReCIPE programme; 

•  Public policies for peace 

• Private and public investments and peace 

• Institutions, democracy and peace 

• Geoeconomics 

• Climate change, natural resources and conflict 

• Information and conflict: From the role of (social) media and public opinion to big data and forecasting 

• Ethnic diversity and nation-building 

• Peacemaking, peacebuilding and reconstruction 

• Gender, inequality and conflict 

The core academic programme will bring together senior researchers in ReCIPE’s leadership team to outline the current state of knowledge in their fields, as well as expert lecturers to present their latest research on conflict and fragility in each of the themes.  

ReCIPE will also host a panel with Adnan Khan (Chief Economist, FCDO); Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann (High Level Panel Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN); Cushla Thompson (OECD); and Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute) focused on policy responses for economies in conflict and fragile settings, and have current PhD students present their newest research on ReCIPE topics in poster sessions.

Registration

You can register your interest to attend as a general participant here. 

Please note that we do not fund travel or accommodation for general participants.

Organisers
•    Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute, CEPR)
•    Oliver Vanden Eynde (Paris School of Economics, CNRS, CEPR)

Recordings

Watch the conference here:

Day 1

• Session 1: Theme 1 – Public policies for peace with Austin Wright (University of Chicago) and Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University)   
• Session 2:  Theme 6 - Information and conflict: From the role of (social) media and public opinion to big data and forecasting with Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, BSE, CEPR) and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE, EHESS, CEPR)
• PhD poster introduction speed round
• Session 3: Theme 2 - Private and public investment for peace with Michele di Maio (Sapienza University of Rome) & Uwe Sunde (LMU, CEPR) and Mathieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon, CEPR)
• Session 4: Theme 5 - Climate change, natural resources and conflict with Oliver Vanden Eynden (PSE, CNRS, CEPR), Juan Vargas (ESOMAS) & Anouk Rigterink (Durham University, SGIA) , Paul Schaudt (University of Saint Gallen) and Oliver Vanden Eynde (PSE, CNRS, CEPR)
• Policy Panel with Oliver Vanden Eynde (PSE, CNRS, CEPR), Adnan Khan (FCDO), Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann (PSE), Cushla Thompson (OECD) and Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute, CEPR)

Day 2

• Session 1: Theme 9 - Gender, inequality and conflict with Siwan Anderson (University of British Columbia, CEPR)
• Session 2: Theme 3 – Institutions, democracy and peace with Laura Mayoral (CSIC) & Hannes Mueller (CSIC, BSE, CEPR) and Juan Vargas (ESOMAS)
• Session 3: Theme 7 – Ethnic diversity and nation building with Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)
• Information on ReCIPE Grants and PhD poster introduction speed round
• Session4: Theme 8 – Peacemaking, peacebuilding and reconstruction with Lisa Hultman (Uppsala University)
• Session 5: Theme 4 – Geoeconomics with Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University) and Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute; CEPR)
• Session 6: RPN with Uwe Sunde (LMU, CEPR), Saumitra Jha (Stanford University), Vasily Korovkin (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Felipe Valencia (University of British Columbia, CEPR)