Upcoming Events

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2024 Events

  • Moving Beyond Zero Tolerance: Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment in UN Peace Operations. Watch the launch here.

  • The Transition Home: Key Challenges for African UN Peacekeepers Upon Return. Watch the launch here!

  • See the full list of speakers here

  • Dr. Sabrina Karim participated in a panel on democracy and security as part of the Center for Global Democracy's inaugural event.

  • GSS postdoctoral associate Dr. Sky Kunkel presented the lab’s inaugural policy memo, “Moving Beyond Zero Tolerance: Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment in UN Peace Operations” and Dr. DeAnne Roark presented our third policy brief for 2024, “Analyzing the Effectiveness of Institutional Training for Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment in Peacekeeping.”

  • held at the University of Michigan from November 7–9, 2024! Dr. Sabrina Karim, alongside lab affiliates Zinab Attai, Laura Huber, Roya Izadi, Sumin Lee, Cameron Mailhot, DeAnne Roark, Angie Torres, Priscilla Torres, Taylor Vincent, and Sky Kunkel, presented innovative and impactful research at the conference. Highlights included invitation-only workshops on "Women's Status After War" and a "Consortium for Human Rights Analysis and Measurement," showcasing our lab's contribution to advancing peace and conflict studies in our field.

2023 Events

  • The GSS Lab hosted the EGEN (The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network) conference at Cornell University in the fall. Learn more here.

  • See the full list of speakers here

  • See the full list of speakers here.

2022 Events

    • Afghanistan One Year Later: Reflections on Life Under the Taliban

      • Zinab Attai; Maryam Amini; Sharif Hozoori; Sabrina Karim

    • Ukraine, Russia, and the Long Shadow of Nuclear Weapons

      • Emma Belcher; Fiona Cunningham; Mariana Budjeryn; Pavel Podvig

    • Built to Fail: How Bureaucratic and Institutional Origins Undermined State Building in Afghanistan

      • Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh

    • The Revolution will be Livestreamed: Technology, Communication, and Terrorist Violence

      • Levi West, Charles Sturt University (Canberra)

    • Leaders, Bureaucracy, and Miscalculation in International Crisis

      • Tyler Jost, Brown University

    • Fighting Yesterday's War: Soviet Influences in Putin's Foreign Policy

      • Maria Snegovaya, Georgetown University

    • When Soldiers Rebel

      • Kristen A. Harkness, University of St. Andrews

    • Why and How Gandhi Civilized Disobedience

      • Karuna Mantena, Columbia University

    • Rule of Law or Rule by Force in Outer Space

      • Ram Jakhu, McGill University

    • The UN, Women's Movements, and the Post-Conflict Response to Sexual Violence

      • Peace A. Medie, University of Bristol

    • Perspective Taking and Security Dilemma Thinking: Experimental Evidence from China and the United States

      • Ryan Brutger, University of California

    • The Economic Weapon: The Interwar Rise of Sanctions

      • Nicholas Mulder, Cornell University

    • The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine

      • Christine Leuenberger, Cornell University

    • What's Happening in Myanmar? Women, Peace, and Security

      • May Sabe Phyu, Gender Equality Network

    • War and Statehood at the Eastern Periphery of Europe: Bukovina in World War I

      • Cristina Florea, Cornell University

    • The Most Serious Crimes of Concern to the International Community as a Whole?

      • Oumar Ba, Cornell University

    • Greetings from Uncle Sam: Conscription as Cipher in American History

      • Amy Rutenberg, Iowa State University

    • Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War

      • Henry Maar, UC Santa Barbara in conversation with Agnes Nimark (PACS)

    • Peace Building, Climate Change, and Migration: Where Have We Been, Where are We

      • Panel discussion co-sponsored by South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Institute for African Development

    • Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society

      • Panel discussion with LTC Paul Lushenko, LTC Keith Carter, Professor Emeritus William Maley

    • Revisiting The Air War in Indochina: American Strategic Bombing from Vietnam to the Present

      • Panel discussion with Neta Crawford, Norman Uphoff, Matthew Evangelista

    • Claimants, Advocates, and Disrupters in Africa's International Supervised Territories

      • Meredith Terretta, University of Ottawa

2021 Events

    • Incredible Commitments: How UN Peacekeeping Failures Shape Peace Processes

      • Anjali Dayal, Fordham University

    • Gender, Socialization, and Norms of Restraint: Findings from the US Military Academy at West Point

      • Chiara Ruffa, Uppsala University and Swedish Defense University

    • Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

      • Sarah Brayne, The University of Texas at Austin

    • The Role of the Officer Race and Gender in Police-Civilian Interactions in Chicago

      • Jonathan Mummolo, Princeton University

    • Current Research from the Gender and Security Sector Lab

      • GSS Lab Fellows, Cornell University

    • Should we Talk to the Police? The Relationship between Dialogue and Activism in Police Reform

      • Rachel Wahl, University of Virginia

    • Actors, Time, and Space in Peace Implementation Process: A New Research Agenda

      • Madhav Joshi, University of Notre Dame

    • Policing Armed Conflict

      • Kristine Eck, Uppsala University

    • How to Prevent Coups d'Etat

      • Erica de Bruin, Hamilton College

    • The Domestic Use of Federal Force and Civil-Military Relations in the Post-Reconstruction U.S., 1877-1921

      • Lindsay Cohn, U.S. Naval War College

    • The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide

      • Valerie Hudson, Texas A&M University

    • Disrupting the Autocratization Sequence: Towards Democratic Resilience

      • Anna Lührmann, University of Gothenburg

    • Violence Against Women in Politics

      • Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University

    • Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

      • Thomas Rid, Johns Hopkins University

    • Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

      • Margaret Roberts, University of California at San Diego

    • Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Struggle for Global Freedom

      • Keisha Blain, University of Pittsburgh

    • Seducing Territory: Sex Acts and State Borders

      • Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida

    • Autocratic Stability in the Shadow of Foreign Threats

      • Livio Di Lonardo, Bocconi University; Jessica Sun, University of Michigan; Scott Tyson, University of Rochester

    • Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction

      • Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University

    • Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work

      • Simon Egbert, Institute for Sociology; Matthias Leese, Center for Security Studies

    • Digital Enclosure and Unfreedom in Northwest China

      • Darren Byler, University of Washington