PVL Members Brief U.S. State Department Officials on Their Research Findings
Members of the lab briefed the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) on their research into the effects of biased media reporting on conflict on large conflict event datasets.
Rolling Stone interviews Professor Andrew Shaver about PVL student supported research on the relationship between higher temperatures and insurgent/human behavior.
Data supplied by Dr. Andrew Shaver benefits the Department of Veterans Affairs
Dr. Andrew Shaver and Ms. Hyemin Han publish their initial findings after studying early Iraq War intelligence e-mails released by the U.S. Government.
PVL Co-Director Dr. Dotan Haim and his colleagues receive $300,000 grant to assess PAMANA. PVL students currently assisting this team in designing its first survey instrument.
The research team of Dotan Haim (Dartmouth), Renard Sexton (Princeton), and Yuhki Tajima (Georgetown) recently received a $300,000 grant from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Philippine National Economic Development Agency (NEDA) to evaluate the government’s flagship program to expand development services to conflict affected areas (PAMANA). The evaluation will be carried out over a 6-month period with the assistance of members of the Political Violence Lab and will be used to instruct future peacebuilding efforts by the Philippine government and the newly reformulated Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.