Robert Lipinski

  • Can the past still shape the present? In my research I try to find some answers to this question by focusing my work on historical political economy. Specifically, for my thesis I investigate persistent impact of foreign media on authoritarian states, the lasting effects of resettlement policies, and legacies of border changes.

Digital Echoes: Understanding Patterns of Mass Violence with Data and Statistics

Data about mass violence can seem to offer insights into patterns: is violence getting better, or worse, over time? Is violence directed more against men or women? But in human rights data collection, we (usually) don’t know what we don’t know – and worse, what we don’t know is likely to be systematically different from what we do know.
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