Thursday, October 18
12:30 - 2 p.m.
C-103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies

During 18 months of fieldwork in Rwanda, Anu Chakravarty (2007-08 Visiting Fellow at the Kroc Institute), studied state-initiated community-based trials for genocide crimes. Her data demonstrate how citizens, despite believing that state rulers lack the moral authority to govern, concede to the government the "right to rule."  By doing so, the people hand power to ruling elites and enable them to deprive people of political rights.

Chakravarty is completing her dissertation in the department of government at Cornell University. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation-funded Workshop on Transnational Contention, the Sage and Mellon Foundations, the Peace Studies Program, and the Einaudi Center at Cornell.

At the Kroc Institute, she is working on a comparative study to determine if the choice of truth commissions versus trials has an effect on the trajectory of democracy-building in a country.

Chakravarty's research interests include genocide studies, nationalism, social movements, and contentious politics, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She has master's degrees from Cornell University (2004) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (2000).

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