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El Mozote, Then and Now: What the Survivors of Modern Latin America's Worst Massacre Can Teach Us About Violence, Trauma and the Long Aftermath of America’s Wars
February 09, 2024 | OnlineSarah Esther Maslin
2023-24 ASU Future Security Fellow, journalist focusing on Latin America, former Brazil correspondent for The Economist, her articles appear in multiple publications including the Washington Post, The New York Times…
Swift Justice – A Taliban Courtroom in Session
February 15, 2024 | OnlineVictor Blue
2023-24 ASU Future Security Fellow, photojournalist and writer focusing on the legacy of armed conflict, his work appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Harper’s Magazine, earned seven Pictures of…
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
February 29, 2024 | OnlinePatricia Evangelista
Trauma journalist, former investigative reporter at Rappler in the Philippines, her book Some People Need Killing (Random House) was named one of the 10 best of 2023 by the New York Times, former ASU Future Security…
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
March 19, 2024 | OnlineNathan Thrall
Journalist and political analyst, former Director of the Arab Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, his book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (Metropolitan Books) was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker…
The International Obligation to Counter Genocide Apartheid in Afghanistan
March 28, 2024 | OnlineKarima E. Bennoune
Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (2015 to 2021), author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here (W.W. Norton 2013), with related TED talk…
Russia in Syria: How Putin Uses the Middle East to Challenge NATO
April 04, 2024 | OnlineJeremy Hodge
Senior Investigator, Zomia Center working on extremism in Syria and Iraq, contributor to Proxy War Today: Case Studies of Conflict in the Middle East (Oxford 2022), his articles appear in Foreign Affairs, The Nation, Le Monde…
Liminal Minorities: Why Some Religious Groups are Targeted for Mass Violence in Muslim Societies
April 25, 2024 | OnlineGünes Murat Tezcür
Director, School of Politics and Global Studies, author/editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (Oxford 2022) and Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of…
The Face of War: How Anthony Shadid Changed Reporting on Conflict after 9/11
March 02, 2023 | OnlinePhilip Bennett, ASU Future Security Fellow, is a journalist, documentary film producer and teacher.
Trauma & Empire: Uprooting Psychiatry from its Colonial Origins
March 15, 2023 | OnlineKhameer Kidia, ASU Future Security Fellow, is a writer, anthropologist, and global health physician on the faculty at Brigham & Womenʼs Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Co-sponsored with the Julie Ann Wrigley…