Former lab member Elise Burr and Professor Shaver write in the Washington Post about Afghanistan's presidential election

Afghanistan’s election on Saturday could be bloodier than expected. This explains why. | Politics | The Washington Post

Until now, the Taliban had good reason to avoid killing civilians as they tried to vote. That’s changed.

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.