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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

News
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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

VOA News

09.02.24

Shuttered in Shanghai, Chinese bookstore reopens in Washington

Pearson Associate Sophie Richardson was quoted in a story for VOA News. 

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World Politics Review

08.16.24

In Ukraine and Gaza, a Wider War Is Getting Less Likely, Not More

In his weekly column for World Politics Review, Pearson Faculty Affiliate Paul Poast discussed the potential for the conflicts to escalate. 

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The Economist

08.09.24

Use Incentives, not Brute Force, on the Cartels, says a Political Scientist

Pearson Faculty Affiliate Benjamin Lessing wrote a guest essay for The Economist. 

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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