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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

The Atlantic

02.04.25

Are We Thinking About Gun Violence All Wrong?

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Jens Ludwig was on the Good on Paper podcast. 

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The Conversation

02.03.25

Kinshasa’s Traffic Cops Run an Extortion Scheme Generating Five Times more Revenue than Fines

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra and co-authors set out to understand the institutional factors behind the congestion in Kinshasa. 

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New York Times

01.29.25

Corporate Leaders Need to Keep Their Mouths Shut

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Tom Ginsburg and Anthony J. Casey wrote a guest essay in the New York Times. 

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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