Thank you all for your engagement during our discussion of armed conflict Monday (and for your patience when I get far too into the weeds on methodological definitions). Here are the (admittedly limited) slides we discussed in class, in case you want to poke around the sources yourself.  

The connection to our next topic is pretty obvious- one of the major “push” factors of migration is the prevalence of violence, so our discussion of the types and distributions of armed conflict and mass atrocities is a natural precursor to migration and the movement of people. One of our readings for this week is an entire book- The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives. While the entire book is excellent, reading all of it is likely too much to handle mid-semester, so please pick one or two chapters that are of most interest to you, and be prepared to (very informally!) present/discuss them to the class.

Speaking of class topics, please make sure to add any topics you’d like to this list, so we can select topics for our TBD classes (we will vote and discuss in our March 25 class, so get those suggestions in ASAP!). It’s also not too early to start thinking about what kind of a final project you might like to make for our class- not formal planning yet, but daydreaming/doodling about possibilities would be great.