Natalia Garbiras-Díaz (Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School’s Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) unit) will give a talk entitled: Prospective and Retrospective Approaches: Conflict Exposure and Attitudes on the Peace Agreement in Colombia   There is no clear consensus on the effect of exposure to conflict on attitudes towards peace agreements. For example, in Colombia, […]

Abby Córdova (Associate Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame) Citizen Responses to Gender and Non-Gender based Violence in Criminal Wars Across the world, the spread of organized crime and governments’ militarization of public security has resulted in numerous accounts of gendered and non-gendered crimes committed by both criminal and state armed actors. Citizen […]

Dr. Kai Thaler, Assistant Professor of Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara will give a talk on: How do historical analogies shape contemporary political attitudes and behavior? Historical framing–drawing parallels between past and present events or actors–can mobilize protesters and keep them politically engaged in the face of unpopular policies and violent repression through both […]