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Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Lecture featuring Miriam Coronel-Ferrer
The fourth annual Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Lecture featured Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, Former Senior Mediation Adviser at the UN and Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer became the world's first-ever female chief negotiator to sign a final peace accord when the government of the Philippines reached the 2014 agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Polarized Democracies: Causes and Consequences
In the 72nd session of LUMS Live: Polarized Democracies: Causes and Consequences. Professor James Robinson discusses the increase in polarization in democratic politics, its effects on institutions and what implications these changes have for our understanding of democracy as a political system.