Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
US States Roll Out Apps Alerting People to COVID-19 Exposure
Sarah Kreps, PACS
“In order for these apps to be effective, you need to have enough of a critical mass of people who are willing to download and use the app,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government and faculty with the Reppy Institute. “And short of mandating that, as was done in China, then you need a kind of public trust.”
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Book Talk: Worldbuilding After Empire
October 1, 2020
11:30 am
Join author Adom Getachew for a discussion on her new book, Worldbuilding After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. This event is sponsored by Buffalo Street Books in downtown Ithaca.
The event also serves as the Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for October 1.
Register at https://www.buffalostreetbooks.com/event/adom-getachew.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Experts: Acknowledge uncertainty in COVID communication
Sarah Kreps and Doug Kriner, professors of government, found that different presentations of scientific uncertainty influence attitudes about policy preferences. Prof Kreps is a faculty fellow with the Reppy Institute.
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Destroying or Deploying the "Deep State" (video)
Democracy 20/20 webinar (September 18, 2020): President Donald Trump came into office vowing to disrupt the “deep state” and to “drain the swamp” of the federal bureaucracy. This panel examines how the capacity and professionalism of the federal government has fared over the past four years, assessing the extent to which it has been weakened or deployed for political purposes.
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How Finland Got 20% of Its Population to Download a Contact Tracing App in One Day
Peace and Conflict Studies Faculty Sarah Kreps says the two key factors driving improved numbers of contact tracing app downloads in Finland can be attributed to the fact that people are less likely to view the apps as scary, more as an essential tool, and European apps have prioritized privacy by housing the data in third-party data centers, not the government.
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Comparing National Power in an Age of Transition
September 10, 2020
11:30 am
Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for September 10. Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College, will join us for a discussion of her working paper, “Comparing National Power in an Age of Transition.” Please note that the author will not give a formal presentation of their work, so it is best to read in advance.
Please pre-register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcuCvqDsrE9DXibREd-fOndLvbv…, and a link to the reading will be sent to you with the registration confirmation. Please contact pacs@cornell.edu with any questions.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Already Authoritarian? Violence, Policing, and Democracy (video)
Democracy 20/20 webinar (August 27, 2020): Federal authorities responded to this summer’s protests with force. The protests, while spurred by recent killings of African Americans by police, have highlighted long-established patterns of intensive and often violent policing of communities of color. This webinar examines these developments in the context of American history.
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Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
October 29, 2020
11:30 am
Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for October 29. Stuart Schrader, Associate Director of the Program in Racism, Immigration; and Citizenship and Lecturer/Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, will join us for a discussion of Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (University of California Press, 2019), Introduction and Chapter 1. Please note that the author will not give a formal presentation of their work, so it is best to read in advance.
Please pre-register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpce6rqz4iH9wGwby_PUjGIrxKeM…, and a link to the reading will be sent to you with the registration confirmation. Please contact pacs@cornell.edu with any questions.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Give Peace a (Second) Chance: A Theory of Nonproliferation Deals
October 22, 2020
11:30 am
Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for October 22. Muhammet Bas, Associate Professor of Political Science, New York University Abu Dhabi and Andrew Coe, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, will join us for a discussion of “Give Peace a (Second) Chance: A Theory of Nonproliferation Deals,” International Studies Quarterly (2018) 62, 606–617. Note that only Andrew Cole will join us. Please note that the author will not give a formal presentation of their work, so it is best to read in advance.
Please pre-register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEode2qqz4oHNTEw3FCWJlH1fPV2U…, and a link to the reading will be sent to you with the registration confirmation. Please contact pacs@cornell.edu with any questions.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
The Uncertainty Trade-off: Reexamining Opportunity Costs and War
October 15, 2020
11:30 am
Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for October 15. William Spaniel, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh and Iris Malone, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, will join us for a discussion of “The Uncertainty Trade-off: Reexamining Opportunity Costs and War,” International Studies Quarterly 63(4) December 2019, 1025–34. Please note that the authors will not give a formal presentation of their work, so it is best to read in advance.
Please pre-register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvfu2srzIpG9Ko1_cTBKHDGCo97I…, and a link to the reading will be sent to you with the registration confirmation. Please contact pacs@cornell.edu with any questions.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies