The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231161020 |
| Published date | 01 March 2023 |
| Date | 01 March 2023 |
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane
Chaara, Jean-Benoı
ˆt Falisse & Julien Moriceau
The committee consisting of Anita Gohdes (Hertie School), Nils W Metternich (University College London), and
Yuri Zhukov (University of Michigan) has awarded the tenth JPR Best Visualization Award to Imane Chaara
(University of Oxford), Jean-Benoı
ˆt Falisse (University of Edinburgh), and Julien Moriceau (Universite
´Catholique
de Louvain). The prize-winning publication is a research article titled ‘Does legal aid improve access to justice in
‘fragile’ settings? Evidence from Burundi’ and was published in Journal of Peace Research 59(6): 810–827. The article
focuses on the impact of a locally provisioned legal aid program on individuals’ use of dispute resolution fora, legal
agency, and trust in judicial institutions. The authors demonstrate that the legal aid provided mainly increases
the participants’ use of courts. A diverse set of visualizations are effectively used to describe the study design, the
underlying data, and the empirical results. The visualizations benefit from clear legibility of labels, precise captions,
and an innate sense of graphic design. These features allow the reader to easily access the visualized information even
when multiple dimensions are presented at once (e.g. Figure 2 and 4) and increase the self-sufficiency of graphics to
tell a coherent substantive story. The article also follows highest standards regarding the use of shading and color
gradients to enable the complete display of visualized information in color as well as black and white print. The
committee found that the use of excellent visualizations, throughout the article, demonstrates our discipline’s state of
the art and therefore Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoı
ˆt Falisse, Julien Moriceau are truly deserving winner of this year’s JPR
Best Visualization Award.
The award is USD 500.
Honourable mention goes to:
Lloyd Lyall (2022) Diverse neighbors and post-conflict recovery at the village level: Evidence from Iraq after ISIL.
JPR 59(4): 543-561.
Journal of Peace Research
2023, Vol. 60(2) 389
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