Consuelo Amat, PhD, is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her research centers on state repression, armed and unarmed resistance, political violence, and the development of civil society in authoritarian regimes, with a focus on Latin America. Her talk at Vassar, titled “Conversations on nonviolence, peace, and civic life,” will engage participants in discussions of definitions of violence, how to build broad coalitions to resist state and local repression, and the role of non-state agencies in providing aid to communities in conflict. Dinner is included, and RSVP is required.

This event is sponsored by the Office of Engaged Pluralism and is free and open to the public.