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From Dark Networks to Dark Markets: Applying Intelligence Principles to Human Trafficking Networks
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David Blair is an Air Force officer with a background in Special Operations who has served as an instructor pilot and subject matter expert on illicit terror networks in Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations. Applying Social Network Analysis, he is now conducting research as a PhD candidate at Georgetown University on the application of principles from the intelligence community, such as data fusion and dark network assessment, to illicit markets in general and human trafficking in particular. David is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and the US Air Force Academy.
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Air Force Chief of Staff's Ph.D. Scholar
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Martha Crenshaw
FSI Senior Fellow
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Center for International Security and Cooperation
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Ajay Verghese
Walter H. Shorenstein
Asia-Pacific Research Center
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Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow
Ajay Verghese joined the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) during the 2012–13 academic year from The George Washington University, where he received his PhD in political science in August 2012.
His research interests are broadly centered on ethnicity, conflict, and South Asia. His doctoral dissertation, Colonialism and Patterns of Ethnic Conflict in Contemporary India, examines why ethnic conflicts in multi-ethnic states revolve around one identity rather than another. He argues that British colonial rule is the key determinant of contemporary patterns of ethnic violence in India. During his time at Shorenstein APARC, he converted his dissertation into a book manuscript.
Verghese has been published in Qualitative & Multi-Method Research, and has received funding for language training and fieldwork in India from a variety of sources, including the U.S. State Department, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and the Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation.
Verghese also holds a BA in political science and French from Temple University.
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Writing Under Seige
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The Program on Human Rights at CDDRL and the Center for South Asia are honored to host Basharat Peer, Sugi Ganeshananthan, Tsering Wangmo and Pireeni Sundaralingam for the panel debat on Writing Under Seige. This event is part of the PHR Collaboratory project.
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Open Society Fellow
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Sugi Ganeshananthan
Professor of Creative Writing, Michigan University
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Tsering Wangmo
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Caste and the Meaning of Freedom
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The Program on Human Rights at CDDRL and the Center for South Asia are honored to host Anand Patwardhan, Gopal Guru and Aishwary Kumar for this special film panel discussion as part of the PHR Collaboratory project.
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Gopal Guru
Professor of Social and Political Theory, Centre for Political Studies
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Jawaharlal Nehru University
Aishwary Kumar
Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History and Modern Intellectual History
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Stanford University
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Film Screening and Discussion Jai Bhim Comrade
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The Program on Human Rights at CDDRL and the Center for South Asia are honored to host Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan for this special film screening and discussion as part of the Collaboratory project.
Anand Patwardhan's new film "Jai Bhim Comrade" took 14 years to complete. Beginning with an incident at Ramabai Colony in Mumbai where 10 Dalits were shot dead by the police in 1997, the film goes on to explore the music of protest of those who were treated as "untouchables" by a caste hierarchy that has ruled the Indian sub-continent for thousands of years.
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FSI to award $400,000 for research on global underdevelopment
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Researchers at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies are finding ways to fight tuberculosis in India, curb violence in Latin America and improve conditions for thousands of people living in the world’s largest slums.
Their work – and the research underway by other faculty members across the Stanford campus trying to solve some of the world’s most persistent problems – is supported in part by the Global Underdevelopment Action Fund. The program awards up to $40,000 to individual researchers creating projects that tackle issues like hunger, poverty and poor governance.
Since it was established in 2010, the Action Fund has doled out nearly $800,000 to 20 researchers.
Now entering its fourth round of Action Fund grants, FSI is seeking proposals from faculty interested in multidisciplinary research aimed at influencing and changing government policies, creating practical solutions to seemingly intractable problems, and training students.
A new feature of the program is incremental funding of up to $5,000 for projects that include a plan for engaging and mentoring an undergraduate student on the research team.
Award recipients will present their work at a monthly Action Fund seminar during the academic year and submit a summary report at the end of the funding period.
Proposals are due by Oct. 31 and will be announced by vmarian@stanford.edu
Work done by previous grant recipients will be showcased in a series of seminars dubbed “Action Fund Fridays” over the next several months.
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Examining Barriers to the Commercialization of Medical Technology in India
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It is critically important for cost-effective and efficacious products to be developed indigenously within India. The Stanford-India Biodesign (SIB) program is designed to bring to market novel medical devices for India’s medically underserved, including those living in poverty. The purpose of the study is to identify the barriers that exist in India to commercializing low-cost medical technologies. The current work developed by SIB will be used as case studies, along with a literature review and ecosystem assessment, to determine the key issues that prevent or slow device commercialization in this environment. By studying these issues, new strategies and risk mitigation techniques can be designed to help more of projects succeed. The results are expected to have a wider impact beyond the SIB program given the number of entrepreneurial medical technology opportunities that are just beginning to be developed in India.
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Paul Yock
Stanford Health Policy Associate, Martha Meier Weiland Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering and at the GSB
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Anurag Mairal
Director, Global Exchange Programs
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Bilal Siddiqi
Encina Hall
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow (ESOC Project)
Bilal Siddiqi is a postdoctoral scholar affiliated with the Empirical Studies of Conflict project (esoc.princeton.edu). His research focuses on micro-institutions, formal and informal legal systems, peace-building and state accountability in post-conflict settings. He is currently involved in several field experiments in Sierra Leone and Liberia, including a randomized controlled trial of two non-financial incentive mechanisms in Sierra Leone’s public health sector; experimental evaluations of community-based paralegal programs in Liberia and Sierra Leone; and a randomized controlled trial of a community reconciliation program in Sierra Leone.
Bilal received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to Stanford, he was based at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm as a Marie Curie / AMID Scholar; and has also spent time at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, where he worked on aid effectiveness in global health. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan.