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Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan

Harris Public Policy students visited Zaatari refugee camp as part of the 2018 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Jordan, where they met with Syrian refugees leading NGO programming within the camp.

Ramin Kohanteb/The Pearson Institute

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VoxDev / 04.30.25

What Mobile Data Can Tell Us about Religion in Conflict Zones

Pearson Professor Oeindrila Dube and co-authors discuss their research measuring religious adherence with cell phone data in Afghanistan. 

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Kabul, Afghanistan
Harris News / 02.17.25

Research on Campaign to Eliminate Chagas Disease

Assistant Professor Eduardo Montero explores the results of a Chagas disease campaign in Brazil in new working paper. 

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Eduardo Montero Headshot
UChicago News / 12.05.24

Nobel Laureate Finds his ‘Calling’ in Studying the World

UChicago Professor James A. Robinson’s decades of research have shaped our understanding of economic inequality. 

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Professor Robinson in his home

World Politics Review

05.10.24

What We Don’t Know About Nuclear Deterrence Could Hurt Us

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Paul Poast asks whether nuclear weapons are effective deterrents. 

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Nuclear Cooling Towers

The Economist

05.09.24

The World’s Most Violent Region Needs a New Approach to Crime

Paywall: Pearson Professor Christopher Blattman was recently quoted in The Economist. 

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World Politics Review

05.03.24

The ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Was Doomed to Fail

"There was always a fundamental tension in the “responsibility to protect” concept: Who decides when it should be invoked?" writes Pearson Faculty Affiliate Paul Poast for World Politics Review. 

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Western Wall

Harris Public Policy students visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem as part of the 2019 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Israel and the West Bank.

Ramin Kohanteb / The Pearson Institute