Final Report Summary - TAMNEAC (Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict) Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) provided training to a young generation of professionals and researchers in tackling the challenges associated with mass violent conflict in developing countries. 10 Early Stage Researchers and 2 Experienced Researchers were hosted by eight research and private sector institutions around Europe with fourteen associated partners around the world, including conflict-affected countries. The training ranged from rigorous research methods to knowledge-based policy responses and programme implementation in conflict-affected countries.One of the TAMNEAC’s core objectives was to develop sustainable professional capacities. With joint efforts of a wide range of academic, policy and private sector partners, TAMNEAC has trained a cohort of future researchers, policy-makers, and consultants that can deal effectively with conflict. Further, the project has strived to overcome current limitations within conflict research by investigating new and innovative topics, such as natural resource exploitation as a driver of conflict, the effects of conflict on maternal health, and the use of microinsurance to manage risk in post-conflict settings. Finally, TAMNEAC was actively promoting knowledge transfer and bridging the gap between research and policymaking.TAMNEAC has achieved its operational goals:- Training: develop fellows into professionals and researchers versed in rigorous methodologies and in the transmission of research-based knowledge into effective policies and policy advice;- Mobility: facilitate skill-building secondments that would ensure the internationality of fellows’ experiences, including mobility to conflict-affected countries and to policy partners within international, governmental, and non-governmental organizations;- Research: invest in the future European capacities needed in the economic analysis of conflict and simultaneously close gaps in knowledge that persist; and- Sustainability: create a lasting network of professionals and researchers that interact on topics surrounding the solution of conflicts long beyond the end of the network’s funding period.TAMNEAC’s research approach brings important breakthroughs in the economic analysis of conflict. TAMNEAC fellows have analysed the drivers, forms and socio-economic consequences of various types of mass violent conflict, including war, from an economic perspective, as well as the risk management strategies of individuals and households to cope with conflict. These research areas have been identified and around them individual research is clustered.TAMNEAC established itself in the research environment as a network which brought together a team of young researchers supervised by some of the leading experts in the economic analysis of conflict. Based on a number of indicators, such as high quality working papers published in the Household of Conflict Networks Working Paper Series, peer-review publications, international workshops and cooperation with project’s associated partners as well as external stakeholders, it can be stated that TAMNEAC has been successfully implemented and met its stated objectives. Effective implementation of the project in line with the work plan has been confirmed by the feedback of the trainees and supervisors. TAMNEAC has created a platform for cross interaction among disciplines and between academic and private sector partners, other stakeholder or relevant users groups, which has resulted in research co-operations that will continue to exist far beyond the durations of the project.The inception and recruitment phases at the beginning of the project were used effectively to create a common job advertising campaign in addition to individual recruitment efforts of the partners so that by month 10 all positions in the project were filled. Two Experienced Researchers and 10 Early Stage Researchers were hired by the consortium on employment contracts from ten different countries. Six of the researchers (50 per cent) are women which makes a reasonable gender balance in the consortium.In addition to the individual training provided by partner institutions, the Consortium organized seven group training events: Training Camps on 23-28 April 2012 in Uganda, 18-23 March 2013 in India, and on 19-24 May 2014 in Colombia; Workshops took place on 31 October - 3 November 2011 in Germany (Kick-off Workshop), 9-11 October 2012 in the UK, 7-9 October 2013 in Norway, and on 8-10 September 2014 in Belgium (Final Workshop). All workshops were attended by representatives of core and associated partner institutions, civil society, policy makers, local and international research communities. In terms of research progress, Early Stage Researchers have completed their data collection efforts and by the end of the project were at the stage of finalizing their working papers and submitting research to peer-reviewed journals. Five papers have already been published, more studies are under review or being finalized. TAMNEAC has placed a big emphasis on mobility between different partner institutions, sectors and countries in order for the fellows to get exposed to various environments both within and outside of academia. Fellows’ interests and carrier plans were taken into account when designing secondments at an individual basis. New associated partners were added to the network offering to fellows a variety of additional training opportunities and geographical focuses. Secondments were undertaken with International Alert, EPRC, IFPRI, CURDES, EPRC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, University of Innsbruck and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Other short visits and internships were undertaken to core partner institutions of the network as well as external organizations. TAMNEAC has been designed to make a significant and sustainable impact both in the conflict-oriented professional community and in the understanding of and coping with conflict in affected countries. The network has been successful in creating synergies with other conflict-related projects and networks, local researchers in conflict-affected areas and international organizations. For more information on the project, please visit www.tamneac.eu.Project Coordinator: Prof. Tilman BrückProject Manager: Myroslava PurskaHumboldt University of BerlinDepartment of Agricultural EconomicsUnter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, GermanyEmail: purskamy (at) hu-berlin.de
