War and Forced Displacement: A Global Reckoning

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents “War and Forced Displacement: A Global Reckoning” with David Vine.

What are the costs and consequences of seemingly endless US wars? Drawing on more than a decade of collaboration with Brown University’s Costs of War Project, David Vine will give an overview of the human toll of war, including death and displacement, injuries to mental and physical health, and sexual violence, as well as the budgetary and other economic consequences of war and military spending. David will preview new research documenting forced displacement since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel and the subsequent US-backed Israeli war in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen,Iran, and Syria.

David Vine is a collaborative writer, political anthropologist, and author of a trilogy of books about war and peace including “The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State,” which was a finalist for the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. David is one of the founders and coordinators of the Network to Dismantle the Military Industrial Complex; a board member and contributor to the Costs of War Project; and co-founder and coordinator of the Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition. David was a professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, DC, for 18 years (2006-2024),achieving the rank of full professor in 2018.

In-person event. Robert A. Jones ‘59 Conference Room.

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Co-sponsored by IGST Migration and Diaspora, Political Science Department, and the Axinn Center for the Humanities Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times Grant.