Governing Body
Executive Coordinator
Raul Caruso
Raul Caruso, educated in Naples(MA), Leuven (Msc) and Milan (PhD), is currently a senior researcher at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart where he is also serving as adjunct professor of International Economics. He is also visiting professor at Warsaw University (Poland). He is editor in chief of Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. He is also in the board of directors of World Research and Peace Science Center Inc. Raul has been awarded with the Stuart Bremer Award in 2004 and with Premio Isimbardi in 2011. His research interests are: Economic theories of conflict and conflict resolution, Terrorism, international economic sanctions, International Political Economy and sport economics.
Research page: http://works.bepress.com/raul_caruso .
e-mail: raul.caruso@unicatt.it
Members of the Steering Commitee
Desirée Nilsson
Desirée Nilsson is an associate professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. She received her PhD from Uppsala University in 2006. Desirée has been a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. She was given the Stuart Bremer Award in 2005. Her research focuses on multiple parties in civil war termination, disaggregated analysis of civil war, civil society actors in peace processes, power sharing, and the management of spoilers. Personal Web page here.
Anja Shortland
Anja Shortland was educated at Oxford (MEng) and LSE (MSc, PhD in International Relations 2001). She is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Brunel University (UK) and research associate at the Deutsches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin). Her main research interests are political economy, the interaction between development and political violence and conflict dynamics. Her work has been published in Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty and Journal of African Economies among others. Personal web-page here.
Vincenzo Bove
Vincenzo Bove is postdoctoral fellow in the Government Department at the University of Essex, UK. He was undergraduate at the University of Florence before taking his MSc and PhD in economics from Birkbeck College, University of London. His research fields include the economics of civil war, defence spending, political economy and the war in Afghanistan.
Personal Web page here.
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug, phd in political science (2005) from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, is Research Professor at the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He is leader of the CSCW Working Group on Environmental Factors in Civil War. Current research interests include security implications of climate change, geographic aspects of civil war, and disaggregated approaches to conflict research. His work has appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Political Geography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and other outlets. Personal web page here.
Johanes Muenster
Johannes Münster, PhD in economics from Free University of Berlin 2006, is currently assistant professor at Free University of Berlin. He works on Industrial Organization, Institutional Economics, and Political Economics. His research has been published in Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Theory, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Economics and Politics, Public Choice, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and other refereed journals. He received the Stuart Bremer Award in 2007. Personal web page here
Andrea Ruggeri
Andrea Ruggeri has joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in August 2010 after studying for his PhD at the University of Essex (UK) and his BA at the University of Genoa (Italy). Andrea has also spent some time studying at Paris VI and Institute Du Monde Arabe in Paris, France. His research deals with civil wars and peacekeeping. Andrea broader research interests include collective political violence, state development, and comparative politics in Africa and Middle East. His work has been published in Journal of Peace Research, International Interactions and edited volumes. He uses quantitative methods and Geographical Information System (GIS), and he is very interested in combining qualitative and quantitative research methods.
