Diyarhi (she/her) is a senior studying international and public affairs. Diyarhi's project with the Stone Inequality Initiative investigates the impact of wealth inequality in immigrant communities in ...

The American India Foundation (AIF) William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India is a ten month long fellowship that pairs young professionals with leading NGos and social enterprises in India.

Over one half of the federal government’s total assets — buildings, aircraft, ships, vehicles, computers, and weapons — are used for national defense. In 2000, the Pentagon’s total assets were valued ...

Data from War Spending and Lost Opportunities (2019) by Heidi Peltier. Military spending by the federal government is often considered a vital support to employment and economic recovery. However, ...

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ Cogut Visiting Professor Camilo Umaña will give a talk on “Humanizing ...

Military spending makes up a dominant share of discretionary spending in the United States; military personnel make up the majority of U.S. government manpower; and military industry is a leading ...

This paper assesses the massive costs of U.S. unlawful transfers, secret detentions, and torture after September 11 – to the rights of victims and suspects, to U.S. taxpayers, and to U.S. moral ...

Heidi Peltier has been a contributing author to the Costs of War project since its inception in 2010 and joined the staff in 2019. Peltier is an economist who has written on military-related topics ...

When the U.S. military budget decreased after the Cold War, military contractors initiated a strategy to protect their profits by more widely connecting jobs to military spending. They did this by ...

Each year since the beginning of the U.S.-led post-9/11 wars, Congress has appropriated money for international assistance, including to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The popular understanding of ...

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Inequality in America Initiative at Harvard University, National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University ...

This paper examines labor abuses during the war in Afghanistan, focusing on how the U.S. is denying legally-required compensation to foreign workers in war zones. The U.S. government leaned heavily on ...