Why does armed conflict harm child health? In a new paper, we show that victimization of caregivers causes lower vaccination rates and reduced healthcare-seeking, mostly due to a loss of trust in state institutions. Improving trust after conflict can potentially be life-saving.

We are very excited to host Noam Gidron today in our Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (info below) - very much looking forward to your talk, @noamgidron.bsky.social ! Please all join if you are interested. Everyone is welcome to attend, no prior registration necessary.

Die Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg droht eine Professur für Internationale Beziehungen zu verlieren. Bitte teilt und unterschreibt den Protestbrief auf uhh-ib-erhalten.de

The 2024 Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR Article of the Year Award goes to @melinscribe.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) for her article entitled ‘Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders’. Congratulations to the author! 🏆

⏰ Please share widely! We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq) wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!

Join us for a keynote by Halvard Buhaug, Research Director at PRIO and Professor at NTNU, on the climate-conflict-migration nexus. 🗓️ Date: November 27, 2024 🕔 Time: 5:00 - 6:15 PM 📍 Location: WZB Berlin Social Science Center 🔗 Register here: events.wzb.eu/madconf24/ 2/2🧵

Why are civilians abused and killed in during conventional war? Using data from Ukraine, Julius Koch and I put forward a new explanation: The threat to combatants posed by long-range weapon technology.   The paper is here: osf.io/z38sq/ , and we would be grateful for comments!