BRIEFING: THE ERITREAN-ETHIOPIAN BORDER DISPUTE

Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict.

Conflict between and within countries can have lasting health and economic consequences, but identifying such effects can be empirically challenging. This paper uses household survey data from Eritrea to estimate the effect of exposure to the 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia war on children's health. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timi...

We Saw Not Clearly Nor Understood: The Economic Background of the Ethiopian-Eritrean War

Alternative Cross-Border Dispute Resolutions, from the Past to New Computational Methods (IT Realities)

At present, legal proceedings are often delayed, expensive, and characterized by unforeseeable decisions. In this context my objective would be to reduce obstacles to the good functioning of civil proceedings, especially the cross-border ones, by enforcing a method that could improve civil proceedings by means of a new procedure in certain areas of civil law, such as successions and trust, matr...

Border Institutions - What Is Lacking in the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute

This study explores the interactions among the claimants for the sovereignty over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands dispute with the intention to find out what is lacking in their communication for a genuinely peaceful and mutually beneficial solution to the multilateral international conflict. Guided by the theory of border institutions and via the research methods of hermeneutics, we found that the...

The China Unionpay Way: Why Bank Card Cross-Border Transaction Dispute Resolution is Difficult

With the increasing number of cross-broader transactions (CBT) that are facilitated by China UnionPay (CUP), international cardholder disputes are receiving more attention. However, according to a recently released internal statistic report, only a very small fraction was satisfactorily resolved from the cardholders’ perspective. Unresolved disputes not only bring unavoidable financial loss to ...