Archive: Public Scholarship
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Founder of the Conflict Resolution program, Professor Lise Howard, co-published Foreign Policy op-ed about UN peacekeeping in Afghanistan
The United Nations Charter pledges “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” Afghans have been at war for several generations, and it is likely that the next…
September 21, 2021
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Professor Desha Girod published Foreign Policy op-ed about responses to Taliban victory in Afghanistan
In 2015, I published a book on why some leaders bring about successful economic reconstruction of their countries and others do not. That research highlights three empirical…
August 31, 2021
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Founder of Conflict Resolution program, Professor Lise Howard, published Los Angeles Times op-ed about UN peacekeeping in Afghanistan
The Taliban leadership is having trouble consolidating control over its own ranks. Moreover, an anti-Taliban civil war is brewing on many fronts. Multinational observers and…
August 29, 2021
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Professor Laia Balcells co-published Agenda Publica analysis about Spanish king: El Rey, ¿institución neutral o de parte?
Hace ya unos cuantos años que la popularidad de la Casa Real española no pasa por su mejor momento, especialmente después de los escándalos de corrupción que han implicado a…
July 27, 2021
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Professor Laia Balcells co-published el Diario op-ed about referendums in Spain
Referéndums: un experimento y una propuesta de votos secuenciales By Laia Balcells and Francesc Amat June 28, 2021 https://www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepapel/referendums-experimento…
June 28, 2021
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SJ Fernandez (G ’20), Yanxi Liu (G’ 20) and Kristina Zanzinger (G ’20) for the North American Center for Latin America: “Underreported and Unpunished, Femicides in El Salvador Continue”
In one of the most dangerous Latin American countries to be a woman, lockdown measures exposed longstanding challenges in combatting gender violence. https://nacla.org/news/2021…
March 5, 2021
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Professor Laia Balcells interviewed in La Vanguardia
Laia Balcells: Entender mejor la guerra es importante para la política actual “En “Rivalidad y venganza. La política de la violencia en las guerras civiles”, Laia…
February 6, 2021
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Caroline Brazill (G ’20) and Imrul Islam (G ’20) for Inkstick Media:
HOW THE UNITED STATES CAN LOOK INWARD After repeated calls for unity, it’s time to seriously prioritize conflict resolution. Brazill and Islam, reflecting on the January 6,…
February 5, 2021
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Professor Chantal Berman recently published a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies
“Islamists were the Arab Spring’s largest immediate beneficiaries, yet Islamist parties in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco played markedly different roles in the historic…
January 1, 2021
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Founder of the Conflict Resolution program, Professor Lise Howard’s research was profiled on PRI’s The World
Peacekeeping work: Part I “This week, Critical State, our global security newsletter, takes a deep dive into the rationale behind peacekeeping missions. A political science…
December 1, 2020