Webinar - Heat or Hate: Global warming and farmer-herder conflicts

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Webinar - Heat or Hate: Global warming and farmer-herder conflicts

This webinar will be presented by Dominic Rohner, Professor and co-director of the economics department at HEC Lausanne.

Par Alumni HEC Lausanne

Date et heure

jeu. 15 avr. 2021 03:00 - 04:00 PDT

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This webinar will be held in English.

In this talk, Professor Dominic Rohner will discuss how climate change affects the risk of armed fighting, and how resource competition between farmers and herders can play a key role.

Dominic Rohner (PhD, University of Cambridge) is a Professor and co-director of the economics department at HEC Lausanne, the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne. He is also Associate Editor at the Economic Journal, the PI of a European Research Council grant, the leader of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on “Policies for Peace”, a member of the Swiss National Research Council, and co-leader of the E4S group on “Evidence-based environmental policies”. Prior to joining UNIL, he held positions at the universities of York and Zurich. His research focuses on political and development economics, has won several prizes and has been widely published in journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and PNAS.

Registration is possible until April 15th at 11AM through this form.

Date : Thursday, April 15th 2021

Time : 12:00 - 13:00 (GMT+1 - Geneva)

Program:

  • 12h00-12h30: Intervention of Professor Dominic Rohner
  • 12h30-13h00: Discussion and Q&A

Participation is free, registration is mandatory. Participants will receive the link 30 minutes before the webinar to join the discussion.

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Créée il y a plus de 45 ans, l’Association des Alumni HEC Lausanne a pour mission de regrouper les Alumni, promouvoir entre eux des relations professionnelles, amicales et culturelles ainsi que de contribuer au rayonnement de la Faculté.

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