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Witchcraft, bureaucraft, and the social life of (US)AID in Haiti
Published 2012“…In this article I discuss the unintended consequences of humanitarian and development assistance provided to “victims of human rights abuses” in Haiti in the years following the restoration of democracy in 1994. …”
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Just Transition: Lessons from Mexico
Published 2022“…Human rights and environmental organizations in Mexico, however, have criticize this model of development promoted by the reforms for their apparent contributions to increasing human rights abuses and generating new “socio-economic conflicts.”¹ Using data collected between 2010-2020 at the Business and Human Rights Resources Centre on abuses in renewable energy development across Latin America and a review of policy, regulatory and legal regimes of the reforms, this thesis explores three primary questions: 1) Why are large-scale, private sector projects the preferred model of renewable energy development?…”
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Three Essays on Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction with Applications to Political Violence and International Security
Published 2022“…I apply the new event extraction technique to two domains, extracting descriptions of human rights abuses from State Department reports and descriptions of political violence from Indian newspapers, finding that the standards of the human rights reports have changed over time, and that existing techniques greatly undercount both political violence and police responses to it in India. …”
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