Conflict forecast in National News
Research into forecasting conflict by Professor Christopher Rauh has been featured in the weekend edition of the National News. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 27th July 2023
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No Light, No Sleep and Secret Passwords
The Faculty's Assistant Professor of Economics Alexander Rodnyansky is an economic adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. He has been interviewed by the Times, about life in Zelensky's Ukraine war bunker.
Published on - Monday 20th February 2023
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The economics of electricity generation
The Faculty’s Assistant Professor Alexander Rodnyansky has recently been interviewed on CNN from Kyiv, on the economics of electricity generation. Read More>>
Published on - Friday 18th November 2022
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Ukraine ‘must revamp labour laws and step up privatisation to fix economy’
Dr Alexander Rodnyansky from the Faculty of Economics has been extensively quoted in the UK’s Guardian Newspaper about the cost of rebuilding Ukraine. Read More>>
Published on - Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Dynamic early warning of conflict
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office now has access to a forecast and costing model which uses machine learning and newspaper text to predict outbreaks and intensity of internal armed conflict.
Published on - Monday 20th June 2022
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Four new professors in Economics faculty
Four academics at the Faculty of Economics have been promoted to Professor grades at the University of Cambridge.
Published on - Thursday 16th June 2022
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Predicting when and where conflict breaks out
Funding by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has allowed development of a new model for forecasting conflict, led by Assistant Professor Christopher Rauh.
Published on - Thursday 5th May 2022
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Predicting Conflict - Sustainable Development Talks
Dr. Christopher Rauh spoke to the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks series about his research into conflict prediction. Read More>>
Published on - Monday 23rd May 2022
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The Ukrainian economy: where now for the future?
A University of Cambridge academic at the Faculty of Economics has warned that the impact of the war will be disastrous for the Ukrainian economy, regardless of the outcome.
Published on - Monday 14th March 2022
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The Ukraine conflict is an economic catastrophe
Dr Alexander Rodnyansky, who is currently an economic adviser to President Zelenskyy, has been speaking to news outlets about the effect of the current conflict on the Ukrainian economy and people. Read More>>
Published on - Friday 4th March 2022
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Workshop on the Political Economy of Wars and Political Transitions
The Faculty of Economics, Brtish Academy, Université libre de Bruxelles and University of Paris-Saclay are sponsoring a workshop on the Political Economy of Wars and Political Transitions. The event, organised by Dr. Toke Aidt, Dr. Jean Lacroix and Prof. Pierre-Guillaume Méon, will be held online, on the 1st & 2nd September 2021. See the event page for details.
Event Date - Wednesday 1st September 2021 - Thursday 2nd September 2021
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Dr Christopher Rauh is proposing a new model for forecasting conflict, which could predict when outbreaks of violence might escalate and spill into armed conflict.
Published on - Thursday 25th March 2021
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Can You Predict the Risk of Armed Conflict in the World?
La Vanguardia newspaper has published an article that reports on Dr. Christopher Rauh's new model for forecasting conflict. Read More>>
Published on - Friday 26th March 2021
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Holy Wars: Temple Desecrations in Medieval India
Dr. Sriya Iyer's Working Paper "Holy Wars: Temple Desecrations in Medieval India" (Cambridge-INET Working Paper wp1702 and Cambridge Working Papers in Economics cwpe1705) features in an article she (with Anand Shrivastava and Rohit Ticku) has written for Ideas of India.
Published on - Monday 27th March 2017
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Why We Fail to Prevent Civil Wars
Dr. Christopher Rauh and Hannes Mueller have written an article for VoxEU on "Why We Fail to Prevent Civil Wars: A Forecaster’s Perspective".
Published on - Friday 28th October 2016
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