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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

News
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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

Newsweek

04.27.23

Russia's Aggressive New Mobilization Drive Targets Moscow

Newsweek discusses Russian and Ukrainian attitudes toward the war, drawing on an op-ed by Pearson Faculty Affiliate Konstantin Sonin. 

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unSILOed Podcast with Greg LaBlanc

04.26.23

274. The New Science of Political Economy featuring James A. Robinson

Pearson Institute Director James A Robinson was on the unSILOed Podcast with Greg LaBlanc this week, discussing his book "The Narrow Corridor," and the importance of inclusive economic institutions.  

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Ipsos

04.24.23

Researchers at Ipsos, the University of Chicago, and University of Michigan present new analysis on the lifesaving impact of public safety early warning systems in Ukraine

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Austin L. Wright's latest research examined the efficacy of air raid alerts in Ukraine. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, discovered the response to the warnings waned as the war continued. 

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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