Conflict Prevention and Peaceful Development
Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Exclusion
A CRISE Policy Conference
Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Monday 9 July -Tuesday 10 July 2007
Horizontal inequalities between ethnic, religious or regional groups are a major source of instability and violent conflict, particularly in developing countries. Devising and implementing policies to correct such inequalities is thus of vital importance. Yet policies to reduce horizontal inequalities can also be inflammatory if poorly or inconsiderately devised or implemented. There is hence a need to understand what kinds of policies work and which have been less successful.
CRISE held a policy conference to discuss these issues and draw out the implications of four years of CRISE research.
Background papers
Day One:
Monday 9 July
Session 1. |
Why are horizontal inequalities important? Major findings Session Leader : Frances Stewart Horizontal inequalities and conflict: an introduction and some hypotheses, Frances Stewart, Graham Brown and Arnim Langer. In Frances Stewart, ed., Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict (forthcoming). Basingstoke: Palgrave. Major findings and conclusions on the relationship between horizontal inequalities and conflict, Frances Stewart, Graham Brown and Arnim Langer. In Frances Stewart, ed., Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict (forthcoming). Basingstoke: Palgrave. |
Session 2. |
*** Economic systems and horizontal inequalities Session Leaders : Rosemary Thorp and Arnim Langer UNRISD Identities, Conflict and Cohesion Paper No. 11: Inequality and conflict: A review of an age-old concern, Christopher Cramer. CRISE Working Paper 39: Explaining persistence and change by Frances Stewart and Arnim Langer. A future resource curse in Indonesia:The political economy of natural resources, conflict and develoment, Zulfan Tadjoeddin. |
Session 3. |
*** Politics, democracy and horizontal inequalities Session Leader : Raufu Mustapha CRISE Working Paper 43: Institutionalising ethnic representation: how effective is the Federal Character Commission in Nigeria?, Abdul Raufu Mustapha. CRISE Working Paper 17: Who should be included? Non-citizens, conflict and the constitution of the citizenry, Matthew Gibney. Political inequalities: A comparative study of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, Arnim Langer. In Frances Stewart, ed., Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict (forthcoming). Basingstoke: Palgrave. Issues in the measure and interpretation of political horizontal inequalities: The case of Guatemala, Corinne Caumartin |
Session 4. |
*** Education, multiculturalism, language and society Session Leader : Arnim Langer Education, labour markets and inequality in Peru, Adolfo Figueroa. CRISE Working Paper 41: Cultural status inequalities and (violent) group mobilization, Arnim Langer and Graham Brown. Education, ethnicity and conflict, David Johnson and Frances Stewart, International Journal of Educational Development 27.3 (May 2007): 247-251 (subscription required). Education, horizontal inequalities and ethnic relations in Nigeria, Ukoha Ukiwo, International Journal of Educational Development 27.3 (May 2007): 266-281 (subscription required). CRISE Working Paper 23: Making ethnic citizens: The politics and practice of education in Malaysia, Graham Brown. Language, education and ethnicity: Whose rights will prevail in an age of globalisation?, Keith Watson, International Journal of Educational Development 27.3 (May 2007): 252-265 (subscription required). |
Breakout i: |
*** The gender dimension Convenor : Maritza Paredes Role of women's NGOs in conflict generation and mitigation in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State, Nigeria, Fatima Adamu. Primed for violence: The role of gender inequality in predicting internal conflict, M. Caprioli, International Studies Quarterly, 49.2 (June 2005): 161-178 (subscription required). Gender equality: Striving for justice in an unequal world: Summary of the UNRISD Gender Report IBU or the Beast: Gender interests in two Indonesian women's organizations, Saskia Wierings, Feminist Review 41: 98-113 |
Breakout ii: |
*** The role of the media Convenor : Rachael Diprose Indonesian social development paper No. 9: Media mapping: understanding communications environments in Aceh, Joanne Sharpe and Imogen Wall. Social Development Papers No. 25: Counting Conflicts, Patrick Barron and Joanne Sharpe Peace journalism in Poso: When reporting ethnic conflict, journalists can make a difference, Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick. Making peace newsworthy, Jake Lynch |
Breakout iii: |
*** Law, human rights and horizontal inequalities Convenor : Matthew Gibney CRISE Working Paper 17: Who should be included? Non-citizens, conflict and the constitution of the citizenry, Matthew Gibney. The Peruvian human rights ombudsman (Defensoria del Pueblo) and racial discrimination, Thomas Pegram |
Breakout iv: |
*** Policies when conflict is ongoing Convenor : Yvan Guichaoua CRISE Working Paper 42: Policies towards horizontal inequalities, Frances Stewart, Arnim Langer and Graham Brown. The costs of war in poor countries: conclusions and policy recommendations, Frances Stewart and Valpy Fitzgerald. In War and Underdevelopment, Frances Stewart, Valpy Fitzgerald and Associates (2001) Oxford: OUP. Approaches to equity in post-Tsunami assistance. Sri Lanka: a case study, Mandeep Kaur Grewal. Local conflict and development projects in Indonesia: Part of the problem or part of a solution? Patrick Barron, Rachael Diprose and Michael Woolcock.
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Day Two:
Tuesday 10 July
Session 5. |
Feedback from break-out sessions |
Session 6. |
*** Aid Session leader : Graham Brown CRISE Working Paper 36: The implications of horizontal inequality for aid, Graham Brown and Frances Stewart. UNU Wider Research Paper No. 2007/32: Rethinking the policy objectives of development aid: from economic growth to conflict prevention, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr |
Session 7. |
*** How change happens Chair : Rosemary Thorp Oxfam Research Reports: How change happens: Interdisciplinary perspectives for human development, Roman Krznaric. Cause and consequence in public policy theory: Ethnic policy and system transformation in Malaysia, Donald Horowitz, Policy Sciences 22.3-4: 249-297 (subscription required). |
Session 8. |
*** Round table discussion on general policy issues Chair : Frances Stewart CRISE Working Paper 42: Policies towards horizontal inequalities, Frances Stewart, Arnim Langer and Graham Brown. CRISE Working Paper 45: Horizontal inequalities in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire: Issues and Policies, Arnim Langer, Raufu Mustapha and Frances Stewart. *** |
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