Agenda last updated 6/15/2009.
All workshop sessions held in Deutz Room at the Institute of the Americas
unless otherwise noted.
All meals will be held at Café Ventanas unless otherwise noted. |
Sunday, June 21 |
| All day |
Participants arrive at Eleanor Roosevelt Housing |
| 6:30 p.m. | Opening Reception and Dinner at Eucalyptus Point |
Monday, June 22 |
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 9:00–9:30 a.m. |
Introduction to the Workshop |
| Eli Berman, UC San Diego |
| 9:30–11:30 a.m. |
Session 1a: Theories of Political Violence |
| Robert Powell, UC Berkeley |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:00–3:00 p.m. |
Session 1b: Civil Wars |
| Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley |
| 3:30–5:30 p.m. |
Session 1c: Strategies of Terrorism |
| Martha Crenshaw, Stanford University |
| 6:30–7:30 p.m. |
Dinner |
Tuesday, June 23 |
| 6:00–8:00 a.m. |
Optional morning activity: Snorkeling/ocean swim at La Jolla Cove |
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 9:00–11:00 a.m. |
Session 2a: Organizations |
| Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, University of Chicago |
| 11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Session 2b: Benign Counter Insurgency |
|
Doug Ollivant, Former National Security Council Director for Iraq |
| 12:30–1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 2:00–4:00 p.m. |
Session 2c: State-Building |
| David Lake, UC San Diego |
| 4:15–5:15 p.m. |
Session 2d:Tactical Economics: Using Development to Influence the Population |
|
Col. Jeffery Peterson, U.S. Military Academy at West Point |
| 6:30–7:30 p.m. |
Dinner |
Wednesday, June 24 |
| 7:00–8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 8:00–10:00 a.m. |
Session 3a: The Basics of Experimental Design |
| Craig McIntosh, UC San Diego |
| 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Session 3b: Problems with Non-Experimental Research: Evidence from Iraq |
| Eli Berman, UC San Diego |
| 12:30–1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:30–5:30 p.m. |
Optional activity: Sea Kayaking at La Jolla Shores/Balboa Park |
| 6:30–7:30 p.m. |
Dinner |
Thursday, June 25 |
| 7:00–8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 8:00–10:00 a.m. |
Session 4a: Ethnics and NGO Partnerships |
| Susan Hyde, Yale University |
| 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Session 4b: Quasi-Experiments |
| Jason Lyall, Princeton University |
| 12:30–1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 2:00–4:00 p.m. |
Session 4c: Bias Reduction in Survey Design |
| David Laitin, Stanford University |
| 4:30–5:00 p.m. |
Session 4d: Interviewing Hezbollah, LTTE, and MNLF |
| Shawn Flanigan, San Diego State University |
| 5:30–6:00 p.m. |
Wrap-Up Session |
| 6:30–7:30 p.m. |
Dinner |
Friday, June 26 |
| 7:00–8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 8:00–10:00 a.m. |
Session 5a: Some Lessons in Designing Field Experiments |
| Dan Posner, UCLA |
| 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Session 5b: Conducting Field Research in Areas of Conflict: Challenges and Rewards |
| Kim Cragin, The RAND Corporation |
| 12:30–1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:30–3:30 p.m. |
Session 5c: Field Research Amidst Social Disorder: Lessons from Iraq |
| David Patel, Cornell University |
| 3:45–5:45 p.m. |
Session 5d: Talking to Terrorists? Evidence, Context, and History |
| Richard English, Queen's University |
| 6:30–9:00 p.m. |
Reception and Dinner at Eucalyptus Point
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Keynote speaker: Col. H.R. McMaster
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, Lessons from Iraq |
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