We are delighted to announce that the Center for Sustainability research at SIR (CSR) is one of the nominees for the Blaze Inclusion Awards 2022.

What are the consequences of domestic violence? What are the factors behind domestic violence? How does war affect the prevalence of gender violence in conflict areas and post conflicts? On 11 May 2022, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) together with the Centre for Economic Analysis (CenEA) and the FREE Network hosted a hybrid conference focused on 'Economic and social context of domestic violence' with a special panel session on ‘Dimensions of gender-based violence in military conflicts’.

Hur kommer det sig att vi hellre sätter oss nakna i en bastu full med främlingar än berättar vad vi tjänar? Micael Dahlen har skrivit sjätte delen i SvD Under streckets serie om jagets förändrade roll i vår kultur.

Sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine are argued to be the strongest and farthest-reaching imposed on a major power after WWII, more numerous and more comprehensive than all other measures currently in force against all other sanctioned countries. A question often asked, which is hard to answer, is whether sanctions are effective.

ICA Retail Club visited ICA's brand new automatized e-commerce warehouse in Brunna.

Systembolaget's Retail Club had a workshop about their marketing strategy.

Listen to CCM researcher Hanna Berg talk about her research on elderly consumers in retail environments. Register for the seminar (in Swedish) May 13, 10.00-12.00. You can attend the free seminar online or in Göteborg!

On May 5 we were thrilled to participate in the “When Machine Learning Meets Online Experiments” workshop with Professor Gui Liberali from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Last week students visited the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as part of their course in applied history. They listened to lectures about the Cold War from leading scholars and visited historical sites in the American capital.

Everybody is deeply shaken by the horror of war, but there are some gender differences in the type of harm that individuals face. Acknowledging the specific risk that women face during wartime in order to target interventions is important, especially considering that often the actors that sit at peace negotiation tables are exclusively men. Pamela Campa, Assistant Professor at Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), discusses the risks that women face during a war conflict.