Peace through Development: Local Institution Building in Rural Afghanistan

“Peace through Development: Local Institution Building in Rural Afghanistan,” with Fotini Christia, Assistant Professor of Political Science, MIT. Fotini completed her PhD in Public Policy at Harvard University in June 2008. Her research interests deal with issues of ethnicity and civil wars and her dissertation addresses the question of civil war alliances. Fotini has published work on the role of local elites in civil wars in Comparative Politics, and is presently working on two field projects of an experimental design, one in Afghanistan and one in Bosnia, that address the effects of institutions of cooperation in post-conflict, multi-ethnic societies. She has also worked in the Middle East and Central Asia and has written opinion pieces on her experiences from Afghanistan, Iran, the West Bank and Gaza and Uzbekistan for Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Presented by the Brown, Harvard, MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics.

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