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The third webinar in the Governance, Crime, and Conflict Initiative’s series discussed randomized evaluations funded by GCCI that address these questions and their implications for policymakers.

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.

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.

James Robinson presents themes from The Narrow Corridor at the Observer Research Foundation.

Students admitted to the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago joined the Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies James A. Robinson for a faculty session, where he discussed his most recent research on Africa's three "latent assets."