Please join us for a brown bag lunch with Kimberly Howe and Adam Lichtenheld to discuss the efficacy of foreign aid in rebel-held Syria.

Kimberly Howe, PhD, directs the Feinstein Center’s Research Program on Conflict and Governance. The majority of her work is focused on the Syria crisis, and the effects of humanitarian and political interventions on civilians, armed groups, and political structures.  Howe has designed and conducted mixed methods research projects in several war-affected countries around the world including Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Uganda, Northern Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan.

Adam Lichtenheld, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, an affiliated scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, and a Truman National Security Fellow. His research and teaching focuses on forced migration and population displacement, civil war, political violence, international intervention, and governance in conflict-affected countries.  He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.