Publikationen

Many conflict-data projects are based on narrow or disjointed concepts of political conflict. They either cover only limited segments of reality or put distinct but related forms of conflict phenomena in conceptual ‘bins’ rather than integrating them into a more comprehensive concept. In addition, conflict intensity is frequently measured by only one indicator, the number of fatalities, which represents only part of the consequences and none of the means of violent conflict. Means and consequences, taken together, constitute the intensity of a conflict. They ought to be combined to arrive at a valid measurement. The Heidelberg approach to conflict research addresses both issues, offering a broad yet differentiated and integrative concept of conflict and a multi-dimensional and multi-indicator approach to intensity. This improves our abilities to recognise and classify conflictive phenomena; to capture conflict-transformation; and to arrive at a valid measurement of intensity. The approach is applied in the new DISCON dataset, comprising data on 155 violent and non-violent interstate, intra-state, and substate conflicts in Asia and Oceania from 2000 to 2014, disaggregated into more than 6300 region-month intensities.

• Trinn, C., T. Wencker (2016): Introducing the Heidelberg Approach to Conflict Research, in: European Political Science, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 111-121. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-016-0093-4.

• Faust, J., S. Leiderer, B. Parks und T. Masak (2016), Die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit aus Partnerperspektive, DEval Policy Brief 5/2016, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below 10% and are declining further. Despite this success, it is not clear to what extent this success has translated into similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people and especially of children.

• The working paper

• Waibel, H. and L. Hohfeld. 2016. Poverty and Nutrition: A Case Study of Rural Households

  in Thailand and Viet Nam. ADBI Working Paper 623. Tokyo: Asian Development Bank

  Institute.

Although international student mobility has become a ubiquitous phenomenon in many parts of the world, the goals that student sojourners pursue when moving abroad have received little systematic attention in psychological research. Likewise, their effects on psychological outcomes such as sojourners' psychological and sociocultural adaptation abroad have not yet been examined. Hence, the purpose of the present research was twofold: First, we established the parsimonious Sojourn Goals Scale and confirmed its psychometric quality and construct validity. Second, we used a longitudinal sample of student sojourners to investigate the role of sojourn goals for sojourners' sociocultural (i.e., sojourners' social relationships) and psychological (i.e., sojourn satisfaction) adaptation abroad at 3 months into the sojourn. Regression analyses revealed substantial effects of sojourn goals on measures of sociocultural adaptation. Response surface analyses served to examine the interplay of sojourn goals and respective sojourn experiences on sojourn satisfaction. We discuss implications for both psychological and applied research and identify future research needs.

• The article in the International Journal of Psychology

• Zimmermann, J., K. Schubert, M. Bruder and B. Hagemeyer (2017) Why Go the Extra Mile? A Longitudinal Study on Sojourn Goals and their Impact on Sojourners' Adaptation, International Journal of Psychology, Vol. 52, Issue 6, 425-435.

Länderübergreifende thematische Evaluierung der Förderung landwirtschaftlicher Wertschöpfungsketten mit Fokus auf Armutsminderung und Ernährungssicherung. Fallstudien in Ghana und Burkina Faso.

• Zur Stellungnahme des BMZ

• Kaplan, M., S. Bettighofer, S. Brüntrup-Seidemann und M. Noltze (2016), Landwirtschaftliche Wertschöpfungsketten, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

• Deutsche Zusammenfassung (PDF, 282 KB) 6 Seiten

• Faust, J., L. Leiderer, T. Masaki and B. Parks (2016), German Aid from a Partner Perspective. Experience-based Perceptions from AidData’s 2014 Reform Efforts Survey, German Institute

  for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.