Zaatari Refugee Camp
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
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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Research and Policy
Austin L. Wright
Assistant Professor
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Austin L. Wright is Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy and Faculty Affiliate of The Pearson Institute. His research leverages microlevel data to study the political economy of conflict and crime in Afghanistan, Colombia, Indonesia, Iraq, and Thailand. His research on substate conflict largely focuses on rebel strategy, examining how rebel groups adopt new technologies of war in a dynamic environment. Wright’s research also unpacks how individuals respond to unexpected economic and climatic conditions, including projects on opium diseases and intelligence sharing, weather shocks and crime, and wildfires and interpersonal violence. His work is supported by the National Science Foundation, Niehaus Center for Global Governance, The Asia Foundation, and World Bank.
Wright is a Faculty Affiliate of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, a Nonresident Fellow of the Liechtenstein Institute, and a Non-Resident Research Associate of the Deep South Watch program in Thailand.
He received a BA and BS from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA and PhD from Princeton University.
Baidoa, Somalia
Makeshift, temporary shelter made of plastic and clothing at a refugee center in Baidoa, Somalia.
Baidoa, Somalia
Makeshift, temporary shelter made of plastic and clothing at a refugee center in Baidoa, Somalia.