Little is known about the experiences of human trafficking survivors over the long term. Why do some survivors experience re-victimization while others do not? Drawing from longitudinal interviews with 64 female sex trafficking survivors in Cambodia, we use qualitative comparative analysis to compare which conditions in the lives of survivors are associated with re-exploitation and which are associated with not experiencing re-exploitation.

Charli Carpenter, political science, has written an opinion piece calling for United Nations intervention in Afghanistan, saying it is not too late for a peacekeeping force to assist in protecting the nation’s women as the U.S. military withdraws from its 20-year occupation of the country. (World Politics Review, 8/20/21)

Tatishe Nteta, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the UMass Poll, is quoted in a column supporting a federal reparations program to benefit Black Americans descended from enslaved Africans. In April, the UMass Poll found that nearly half of Americans believe that the federal government should not pay reparations. Nteta says, “In explaining their opposition to reparations, Americans view the descendants of slaves as unworthy of payment for the plight of their forefathers and mothers. For supporters of reparations, the next stage in the fight may be the education of the public regarding the continuing legacy and impact of slavery on the African American community.” (MSNBC, 8/4/21)

Professor Charli Carpenter will join Harvard's Kennedy School this fall as a senior fellow at the Belfer Center on International Security, where she will spend a semester completing work in progress on the laws of war and the nuclear ban treaty, and write a number of external grants to support her newly founded Human Security Lab, an interdisciplinary project focused on global human security law and policy. This summer, Carpenter hired and trained four undergraduates and supervised five graduate students through the Lab on a variety of projects related to humanitarian disarmament and conflict transformation. In fall, Carpenter hopes to secure external funding to expand Human Security Lab programming to involve events, speaker series', and develop a grants program for faculty and graduate student research at the intersection of inequality, conflict resolution and humanitarian law. While maintaining her post at Belfer on sabbatical this fall, Professor Carpenter also looks forward to staying involved with the Political Science and Legal Studies community through the Conflict, Violence and Security workshop, Human Security Lab speaker series, and continuing to serve the university community with public-facing op-eds for World Politics Review.