Current Projects:
Fragile Communities Project
How do communities facing uncertainty or risk come together to make
decisions, resolve disputes, or reconstitute themselves after a crisis?
Papers:
Christiana Ochoa and Patrick J. Keenan, Conflict Commerce: How Global Commerce Exacerbates Conflict and What Can Be Done About It.
Intermediation Project
What happens when Western corporations go to communities in the
developing world in search of commodities? What are the mechanisms by
which they finance this activity, and how can communities ensure that
their interests are protected?
Sovereign Wealth Project
One of the most attractive arguments in favor of globalization is that
it promises to empower individuals. When anyone with a mobile phone can
search the Internet, send a text message to a BBC reporter, or find out
the current market price of her crops, local people have more power than
perhaps ever before in human history.
