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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

World Politics Review

04.21.23

ChatGPT and AI Will Make Humans More Necessary, Not Replace Them

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Paul Poast, in his latest for World Politics Review, writes why we don't need to be worried about ChatGPT. 

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The Economist

04.17.23

The world’s deadliest war last year wasn’t in Ukraine

The Economist discusses the alarming trend of conflicts lasting longer and uses research from Pearson Professor Chris Blattamn to underscore the consequences.  

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Markets Insider

04.10.23

Russia's economy is becoming more 'primitive' and war could push it to the same fate as the Soviet Union, says economist targeted by Moscow

Affiliate Faculty Konstantin Sonin says Russia's economy is becoming increasingly primitive, which could result in an economic implosion like Russia had in the 1980s.

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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