Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network, funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme. The project started in January 2011 and will run for four years; it is coordinated by Humboldt-University of Berlin.

The overall objective of TAMNEAC is to train a young generation of professionals and researchers in tackling the challenges associated with mass violent conflict in developing countries. This training will range from rigorous research methods to knowledge-based policy responses and program implementation in conflict-affected countries.

TAMNEAC analyses 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.

TAMNEAC's research approach aims for important breakthroughs in the economic analysis of conflict. Reflecting on the interactive processes that outbreaks of violent conflict generate and from which they are derived, eight themes have been chosen for further research. These themes are clustered into three research areas:

- Conflict Drivers: violence and household behavior, polarization and conflict, and natural resources and conflict
- Risk Management: coping strategies, labor market and human capital, agriculture and trade, and risk management through microinsurance
- Social Consequences: marriage and household formation, and maternal health and conflict

Consortium

The Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) is comprised of eight core project partners:

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Project Coordinator: Tilman Brück
Agriculture and Trade - Harald von Witzke

Institute of Development Studies, UK
Violence and Household Behaviour - Patricia Justino

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Marriage and Household Formation - Philip Verwimp

Oxford Policy Management, UK
Natural Resources and Conflict - Stephen Jones

PlaNet Guarantee, France
Risk Management through Microinsurance - Sabrina Régent

Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC), Spain
Polarization and Conflict - Joan Esteban

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway
Maternal and Reproductive Health - Henrik Urdal

German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Germany
Coping Strategies, Labor Market and Human Capital - Tilman Brück

Associated Partners of TAMNEAC:

* International Alert (Alert), United Kingdom
* ActionAid (ActionAid), United Kingdom
* Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Uganda
* Institute for Human Development (IHD), India
* Planet Finance Germany (PFD), Germany
* Ministry of Agriculture (MinAg), Mozambique
* Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain
* UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the Netherlands
* University Centre for Economic and Social Development Research (CURDES), Burundi
* International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
* Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC), USA
* Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden

For further information please visit the TAMNEAC website.