Antonio De Lauri is a Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, and the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies. He has conducted ethnographic research in Afghanistan, ...

The post-9/11 wars have had many budgetary consequences that the Costs of War project has not yet fully assessed. Budget estimates do not include: The opportunity costs of the U.S. choice to pay for ...

Source: The Long-Term Costs of U.S. Care for Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, by Linda Bilmes (2021) The commitment to veterans continues long after wars ends. Those who have been deployed ...

The U.S. budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan from FY2001-FY2022 totaled over 2.3 trillion dollars. The estimated U.S. budgetary costs of the wars in Iraq and Syria from FY2003-FY2023 totaled 2.9 ...

Yogendra Yadav is an Indian activist and political thinker known for his unwavering commitment to democracy, social justice, and constitutional values. Starting his career as a teacher of Political ...

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Join us for a collaborative event highlighting the K’iche’ language, which is widely spoken in Guatemala as well as in our local communities. Hear from professors and students in the Linguistics and ...

This community-building workshop with Kichwa artist Adina Farinango is open to all graduate students engaged with Indigenous communities and the arts. Explore your creative potential, learn about ...

Since the 2000s, national governments and terrorist groups – from Israel, Syria’s Assad regime and the United States to the Islamic State – have found ways to curtail conflict coverage through myriad ...

Photo credit: Kali Rubaii, (2021), Fallujah, Iraq. Based on interdisciplinary biological, environmental, and anthropological research in Fallujah, Iraq, this report finds that people who have returned ...

Costs of War’s Consuming War research series showcases how, every day, Americans are inundated with cultural products promoting militarism. From movies and video games to sporting events, our ...

Military spending makes up a dominant share of discretionary spending in the United States; military personnel make up the majority of U.S. government manpower; and military industry is a leading ...