Book Manuscript Workshop with Melani Cammett

November 6, 2026

This event is closed to the public.

The upcoming book, with the working title Extraordinary Violence, Ordinary Life: Politics and the Social Rules of Peace, focuses on the role of political elites in shaping social norms around interethnic relations on the ground and on what factors incentivize ethnic elites to tone down divisive rhetoric and behavior and promote less antagonistic interethnic relations. It is based on original research in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon, and Northern Ireland and involves both within-country, subnational comparisons and cross-national comparisons.

Speakers

  • Laia Balcells, Christopher F. Gallagher Family Professor of Government, Georgetown University.
  • Anna Grzymala-Busse, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies; Director, The Europe Center, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University.
  • Andreas Wimmer, Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy, Columbia University.
  • Steven Wilkinson, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.

Contact

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

Chair

Melani Cammett
Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity and Conflict; Faculty Associate (on leave 2025–2026); Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Conflict; religion and ethnicity; development; and Middle East politics.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Melani Cammett.

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