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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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The Chicago Maroon / 10.28.24

Seventh Annual Pearson Global Forum Looks to Past Conflicts to Envision Future of Gaza, Sudan

“Negotiation and Agreement” was the theme of this year’s forum, which addressed who should be in the room for peace talks and why the language of negotiation matters.

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Panel at the Pearson Global Forum
New York Times / 10.14.24

Three Receive Nobel in Economics for Research on Global Inequality

Pearson Institute Director James A. Robinson was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. 

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Pearson Institute Director James A. Robinson at Nobel press conference.
U Chicago News / 10.14.24

James A. Robinson shares 2024 Nobel Prize for research on global inequality

Pearson Institute Director James A. Robinson shares the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his groundbreaking research on the root causes of global conflict and inequality, including what affects’ countries economic prosperity. 

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James A. Robinson

UChicago News

04.19.22

New book examines roots of violence, paths to peace

In his new book Why We Fight, Prof. Christopher Blattman examines why—out of millions of hostile rivalries are simmering across the world—only a fraction erupt into violence.

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Harris News

04.19.22

Q&A: Professor Christopher Blattman on Roots of Violence and Paths to Peace

UChicago’s Christopher Blattman has studied the causes of conflict and crime in Colombia, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Chicago’s South Side. Now he’s written a book that distills the complexities and reveals solutions.

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Harris News

04.19.22

Student Profile: Andrea Mariño Varela, MPP Class of 2023

Mariño Varela seeks to use her MPP to better understand the root causes of conflict in Colombia and around the world—and design solutions that will work.

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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