December 4, 2014
Public Policy Lecture Series: Javier Osorio, “Understanding Drug Violence in Mexico”
Thursday, 7 p.m., Psychology 105
Javier Osorio, assistant professor in the political science department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, received a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. His research interests are focused on political violence—particularly large-scale criminal violence in Latin America—and on repression-dissent dynamics, human rights, political clientelism and vote buying, political corruption, and transparency. Osorio has been a fellow at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University and at Yale University, and held appointments at the World Bank in Mexico and the Federal Electoral Institute in Mexico. This talk intends to explain the Mexican war on drugs by contrasting a broad variety of international, socioeconomic, geographic, and political factors. The leverage of big data analytics and data visualization tools challenge traditional explanations of violence and reveal new aspects in the dynamics of drug-related conflict across time and space. Sponsored by the Elizabeth C. Ducey Political Science Lecture Fund. More about the series.