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Come to a May 15 public lecture at the University of Liberia

I’m not sure how many of my readers are in Monrovia, but if you are, please come to what I hope will be the first of several lectures at the University of Liberia.

I will speak mainly about the evidence on whether youth poverty and unemployment contribute to crime and violence, and whether employment and cash transfer programs have the potential to reduce poverty and social instability. I will also talk about some new work on conflict prediction and early warning, and the promise of local institution building and dispute resolution for bringing stability.

Location: Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation (KAICT) at the University of Liberia main Auditorium

Title: Post-conflict peacebuilding and economic recovery: Evidence from rigorous impact evaluation

Date: 15 May, 2012

Time: 3–5pm

5 Responses

  1. Hi Chris! Just started following your blog this past week. While I won’t be in Liberia, I ‘m extremely interested in the topic. Will you be writing about what you shared once you return? Just a couple of weeks ago, I attended a panel organized by SID in DC on measuring youth outcomes in peacebuilding contexts. One panelist from Mercy Corps specifically commented that at least in Liberia, they didn’t find a correlation between unemployment and violence.

  2. Thanks Prof. Blattman, this surely is a very interesting topic and will do my best to attend and also encourage other professional colleagues to attend also

  3. Great! I certainly will attend. It’s an interesting topic. I actually would love to see evidence of the correlation between youth poverty and violence, considering how concurrently both of these variables are play in Liberia. Many “experts” in our society have fervently attempted to establish a relationship between youth violence and the trauma accumulated over the years as a result of the civil crisis, disregarding the impact of contemporary factors. I have always been critical of that, and this is a point I will raise during the lecture. I would also love to meet Prof. Blattman in person, since I recently started following his work when I decided to study International Development with emphasis in Governance and State-Building.

  4. Interesting. I’m not in Liberia right now, but isn’t it obvious? Would be interested in seeing what the “evidence” would show. I guess I’ll encourage some persons in Liberia to come over.

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