NEPS Newsletter - June 2016

The winners of our awards this year:

The Stuart Bremer Travel Award 2016 has been won by Annekatrin Deglow with her paper “Localized legacies of civil war: Post-war violent crime in Northern Ireland”.
The jury was composed by Marijke Verpoorten, Margit Bussmann, Inken von Borzyskowski, Olga Shemyakina, Mansoob Murshed, John Paul Dunne and T. Clifton Morgan.

Manas Chatterji in consultation with the Steering Committee of the Network of European Peace Scientists, awarded Vincenzo Bove with the Manas Chatterji Award for Excellence in Research on Peace Economics and Peace Science.

For the first time in NEPS we had an ex aequo for the NEPS Medal 2016. So we had the pleasure to award two publications:

Guy Grossman, Devorah Manekin and Dan Miodownik, "The Political Legacies of Combat: Attitudes Toward War and Peace Among Israeli Ex-Combatants", International Organization, volume 69, issue 4, pp. 981-1009.

Vincenzo Bove and Tobias Böhmelt, "Does Immigration Induce Terrorism?", Journal of Politics, volume 78, n. 2.

Proceedings of the
16th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference

Also this year the proceedings will be published as short papers/letters in a special issue on Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (PEPS, http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/peps) to be released on December 2016.
This year, the special issue collecting the proceedings will be edited by Arzu Kibris and Daniel Meierrieks.
Deadline for submission is 30th July 2016.
For more information, you can contact Raul Caruso (raul.caruso@unicatt.it)

Summer School entitled
“War, reconstruction and establishment of peace from the roots of war to the establishment of a lasting Peace”

The Summer School is organized within the activities of a new center, CESPIC, and it will be held from 19 to 23 of September 2016 at the Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel”, in Tirana.
Students (preferably) at a Master level.
The faculty is composed by: Arzu Kibris, (Sabanci University), Vincenzo Bove, (University of Warwick), Scott Gates, (PRIO), Mansoob Murshed, (ISS e Birmingham University), Christos Kollias, (Thessaly University), Roberto Ricciuti, (University of Verona), Tobias Böhmelt, (University of Essex), Han Dorussen, (University of Essex).
For more information, you can contact the Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel” (pr@unizkm.al) or visit the website.

Newsletter,
June, 2016

22th Annual
Summer Institute
in Political Psychology
at Stanford University August 1-19, 2016.

The Summer Institute in Political Psychology is a three-week intensive training program that introduces graduate students, faculty members, and professionals to the world of political psychology scholarship. The curriculum is designed to accomplish one preeminent goal: to produce skilled, creative, and effective scholarly researchers who will do more and better work in political psychology as the result of their attendance at SIPP.
SIPP will accept up to 60 participants, including graduate students, faculty, professionals, and advanced undergraduates.
Applicants are accepted on a rolling basis until all slots are filled, so applying soon maximizes chances of acceptance.
For more information and application, please visit the website.
For further enquires, please write to:
2016SIPP@gmail.com

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