Quantitative and Experimental Approaches to Studying Conflict and Political Violence

Abstract

This panel deals with quantitative approaches and experimental designs drawing on a variety of data and data analysis approaches. This pertains, among others, survey data, BTSCS and TSCS datasets, and particularly to new trends in ‘big data’. Especially welcome are recent innovations using geo-data analysis, forecasting models and simulations, event-history analysis, survival analysis, matching analysis, network analysis etc., as well as papers discussing and/or using a variety of data and data analysis approaches at national, regional, or group level. This panel will also discuss papers that use laboratory and field experiments and/or that consider the ethical and practical aspects of experimental designs in volatile situations, such as countries experiencing, or recovering from, episodes civil war and political violence.