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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish. An estimated “1.8

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations.

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Lotem Bassan-Nygate Receives the 2024 Merze Tate Award for “Who is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism”

Political Science Now

This dissertation sheds new light on our understanding of the costs and benefits of naming and shaming human rights abusers. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Lotem’s research lies at the intersection of international relations, political psychology, and experimental methods.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

On top of the starvation, displacement, bombings, and other forms of physical and psychological violence that all Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing in this brutal, ongoing assault, deaf Gazans face additional vulnerabilities that are heightened during times of war.

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Anthropology against Behavioral Science

Anthropology News

In the case of international development, it was not a matter of material reparation or a revision in the global balance of power, but was instead a matter of overcoming one’s psychological biases inherited from the prior colonial era. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.