Ore D Koren
Affiliations
- Political Science
- Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences: Applied Economics
Links
- My personal website
- A profile written by the Department of Political Science
- A description of my research written by the College of Liberal Arts
- Military Structure, Civil Disobedience and Military Violence (1972-2011) dataset
- Replication File: Means to an End (Including Supplementary Appendix)
- Replication File: From Global to Local, Food Insecurity is Associated with Contemporary Armed Conflict
- Replication File: Droughts, Land Appropriation, and Rebel Violence in The Developing World
- Replication File: Living off the land, The connection between cropland, food security, and violence against civilians
- Replication File: Why insurgents kill civilians in capital cities: A disaggregated analysis of mechanisms and trends
- Replication File: State Capacity, Insurgency, and Civil War: A Disaggregated Analysis
- Replication File: Food Abundance and Violent Conflict in Africa
Ore Koren is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota in Political Science, a U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Fellow at Dartmouth College, and a former Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. He studies micro-dynamics of violence, analyzes the behavior of combatants and perpetrators, and evaluates the specific mechanisms that generate conflict and other forms of political violence at the highly localized level. As a researcher, he devoted considerable energy into developing “localized conflict” approaches to understanding manifestations of violence that have traditionally been thought of mostly as initiated by states or leaders. Using a combination of “big data” analysis and archival research, Koren’s current work analyzes the implications of factors such as local political power asymmetries or food security and climatic variations to conflict and political violence, and experiments with creating theoretically informed indicators to measure the distribution of different political and economic factors at the highly localized level. His research was published or is forthcoming in multiple academic journals, and has also been featured in policy-oriented outlets.