Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes (LiCEP): Formal and Empirical Approaches to Ethnic Mobilization -- series of workshops

比较族裔进程实验室将举办四次关于族裔动员、民族主义和内战主题的两年一次的讲习班。LiCEP是一个跨大学研究小组，旨在通过对正式理论模型和经验证据的系统交叉检验，提高我们对种族动员的原因和后果的理解。LiCEP探讨的实质性问题包括：个人参与种族集体行动与非种族集体行动的条件是什么？什么条件会导致大规模的反政府叛乱？种族间暴动何时发生，为何发生？在国内暴力事件之后，如何重新协商种族间的关系？在什么样的条件下，民族动员以民族投票和政党组建等更为“常规”的形式出现？不同形式的民族动员对政策制定和国家巩固过程的影响是什么？民族动员是如何与身份形成本身的过程相互作用的？研讨会的主要目标是评估实验室生成的数据集，逆向工程统计，正式和基于代理的模型，并使正式模型与经验证据更直接地相互作用。

The Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes (LiCEP) will conduct four biannual workshops on the theme of ethnic mobilization, nationalism and civil war. LiCEP is an inter-university research group that seeks to improve our understanding of the causes and consequences of ethnic mobilization through the systematic cross examination of formal theoretical models and empirical evidence.The substantive questions that LiCEP explores include: What are the conditions under which individuals participate in ethnic as opposed to non-ethnic collective action? What are the conditions that lead to large-scale rebellions against the state? When and why do inter-ethnic riots occur? How are inter- ethnic relations renegotiated in the aftermath of civil violence? What are the conditions under which ethnic mobilization takes the more "routine" forms in the form of ethnic voting and party formation? What is the impact that different forms of ethnic mobilization have on policy-making and processes of state consolidation? And how does ethnic mobilization interact with the process of identity formation itself? The principal goals of the workshops are to evaluate lab-generated datasets, reverse engineer statistical, formal and agent-based models, and bring formal models into more direct interaction with empirical evidence.