In this paper we examine the effect of differential population growth on the balance of power in the EU's Council of Ministers.

Wolfgang Lutz and Vegard Skirbekk - IIASA (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis)

The Low Fertility Trap Hypothesis: Forces that May Lead to Fewer Births in Europe paper

The paper’s hypothesis describes plausible self-reinforcing mechanisms that would result, if unchecked, in a continued decrease of the number of births in Europe.  

Upala Barua , Cotton College, Assam, India

Cultural And Administrative Factors On Differential Fertility Rates in Assam, India  paper

This is a study of the fertility status of two communities pursuing the same religion but migrated to the State at two distinctly different periods from two different locations.

Branislav Djurdjev, University of Novi Sad

Majorities And Minorities In Ex-Yugoslav Countries  

The paper considers ethnic changes in the area of former Yugoslavia. In our days former majorities are stronger in their native countries and weaker in all other parts. Minorities tend to emigrate.

Ould Isselmou, Office National de la Statistique

Fertility Differentials : A Comparative Study (N & W Africa)  

The study shows the level, trend and differential in fertility among North African and West African countries.

Demography and Ethnic Conflict: Comparative-Quantitative Approaches

Elizabeth Leahy, Population Action International

The Shape of Things to Come: Population Age Structures and their Meanings  

Description of the relationship between demography and political stability; analysis of connections between population age structure and risk of civil conflict in developing countries from 1970-2004.

Sarah Staveteig, University of California, Berkeley

Youthful Age Structure and Ethnic Conflict: Is there a Connection?  

One cascading effect of population growth-age structure-is a predictor of civil war, but not of ethnic war. However, differential minority age structure appears to help predict ethnic conflict.  

Christian Leuprecht, Royal Military College/Queen's University, Canada

The demographic security dilemma  

Henrik Urdal, Peace Research Institute, Oslo

Censuses Recording, Ethnicity and Increased Risk of Political Instability and Violence  paper

The paper addresses the relationship between publishing ethnicity data from censuses and political stability and violence.

Tamas Makany U. of Southhampton

An Agent-based Model of Crisis-Driven Migration and Ethno-Religious Conflict

An agent-based model simulates crisis-driven migration and ensuing ethno-religious conflict; generates migratory patterns based on local crisis, ethnic tension, demography and breadth of networks.

Richard Cincotta, National Intelligence Council (USA)

Does a Demographic Transition Promote a Democratic Transition? presentation

The authors propose to formulate and test a series of hypotheses that predict the increased likelihood of a drift toward democracy as an autocracy's ethnic population age structures mature

Indra De Soysa, ISS/NTNU (Norway)

Dare to be Different! Ethnicity & Political Terror paper

This study will empirically assess the nexus between dissent and repression in ethnically fractionalized and exclusionary political environments.

Demography, Ethnic Conflict: Case Studies

Eliott Green, London School of Economics paper

Demographic Pressure and Ethnic Conflict in Contemporary Uganda paper

Uganda possesses both extreme ethnic diversity and a high rate of population growth. I argue here that the combination of these factors means that Uganda will see more ethnic conflict in the future.

Ricardo Neupert, UN Population Program & Silvino Lopes, NSD Timor L’Este

The demographic component of the east Timorese crisis paper

This study analyses the demographic determinants of the recent crisis in East Timor, which has the form a violent rivalry between the population of the Eastern and Western regions of the country.

Aitalina Azarova, Central European University

Consequences of the change of dominant ethnic group in the Sakha Republic (Russian Federation) paper

Discussion population growth of the Sakha and Russian people in one Russian region. Changing balance of social and political standing has affected the degree of ethnic tension

Mitch Young, London School of Economics

Property Law, Ethnic Fractionalisation and Return Migration in Post-war Bosnia

An analysis of factors affecting the return of refugees and displaced persons to pre-war property holdings in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Renu Bhagat, The New School for Social Research, New York

Religion, Race and Caste: Comparing Affirmative Action in the India and the United States 

This paper will examine the role of the state in identity construction in India and the United States,through Affirmative action plans.

Nationalist Responses to Demographic Change and Nationalist Uses of Demography

Ugur Ungor, University of Amsterdam

Demographic engineering in the 20th century: a comparative historical-sociological approach   presentation

Demographic engineering is the range of state-sponsored policies to maintain maximum homogeneity. This comparative paper outlines various episodes of demographic engineering in the twentieth century.

Tatyana Kotzeva, Center for Population Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Depopulation in Bulgaria in the Times of Transition: Political and Scientific Visions  

The presentation will analyse different interpretations and visions of Bulgaria's depopulation since the early 1990s, mainly nationalistic visions and more moderate and politically neutral views.

Cynthia Buckley, The University of Michigan

Russia Counts: The Social Construction of the 2002 Census  

This paper examines the delays, debates and disagreements associated with the 2002 census of the Russian Federation.

Demography and Religion

Abby Day, Lancaster University

Believing in Belonging: a qualitative analysis of being Christian for the 2001 census presentation 

Seventy-two per cent of respondents to the UK 2001 census affiliated to Christianity. The paper explains explorer this data via an intergenerational qualitative research project.

Hannah Cameron, Brussels School of International Studies

Transnational Marriage between Britain and the Indian Sub-continent: an evaluation of the demographic impact paper

The proposed paper will consider the demographic impact of transnational marriage, with reference to marriage between British born Asians and citizens of the Indian subcontinent.