February

(Repost from ETH News) Will climate change, as often claimed, indeed result in large-scale human migration, notably from poor to rich countries? Vally Koubi and Thomas Bernauer answer.

Prof. Bernhard Wehrli has been appointed by rector Prof. Sarah Springman, upon unanimous recommendation by the ISTP Institute Conference, as the new deputy director of the ISTP.

Site visit of the slum upgrading program “Empower Shack” – a joint project by the Urban-Think Tank based at the ETH Zurich and the local non-profit organization Ikhayalami.

In the first session of the mini-conference organised by the ISTP prominent local academics and practitioners were invited to speak on a range of topics relating to southern urbanism and urban insecurities.

Lukas Rudolph, together with four co-authors, examined whether governments’ military build-ups foster the outbreak of intrastate violence. Their article in the Journal of Peace Research investigates the impact of governments’ arms imports on the onset of intrastate conflicts.