Victims in the Shadow of Conflict
A novel argument about experiences of conflict and lasting intergenerational trauma.
Experiences of political violence shape the political identities of victims and their descendants. But not all such experiences have the same lasting intergenerational effects. In this talk, Noam Lupu offers a novel argument about what kinds of experiences of violence do and do not cause lasting intergenerational trauma for their victims, focusing particularly on the role played by blame-attribution and ethnic targeting in Crimea, Cambodia, and Guatemala, looking as well survey data from two cross-national projects on conflict experiences.
Meet the speaker
Noam Lupu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He received his BA from Columbia University, MA from the University of Chicago, and PhD in political science from Princeton University; he previously worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lupu is also Associate Director of LAPOP Lab, a center for excellence in international public-opinion…
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