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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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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

The Economist

10.16.24

An Economics Nobel for Work on Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson research on institutions awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. 

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

10.15.24

Bangladesh Is Well-Positioned to Build a New Political Area. Can It Seize the Moment?

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Paul Staniland considers the future for Bangladesh. 

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Hyde Park Herald

10.15.24

U. of C. professor James Robinson wins Nobel Prize

Coverage of Pearson Institute Director James A. Robinson's Nobel award. 

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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