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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

Novaya Gazeta

06.29.23

‘Warfare often coincides with movements towards democracy’ James A. Robinson, economist and co-author of ‘Why Nations Fail?’, discusses the origins of Russia’s vulnerable dictatorship

Pearson Institute Director James A. Robinson spoke with Novaya Gazeta to discuss autocracy, democracy, institutions, and more. 

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World Politics Review

06.16.23

Taiwan’s Fate Doesn’t Hang on Defeating Russia in Ukraine

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Paul Poast discusses the potential implications of the war in Ukraine.  
 

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The Wire

06.16.23

Areas With More Muslims, SCs Have Less Access to Public Services in India: Study

Recent research by Pearson Faculty Affiliate Anjali Adukia and coauthors examined residential segregation, and its consequences, in India. 

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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