VIO Lab
The Violence, Intervention, and Order (VIO) Lab is a home for research on violence broadly construed, including political conflict but also criminal violence, and on types of intervention and order designed to mitigate violence. We seek to conduct basic and applied research with implications for both academics and practitioners. The VIO Lab provides a forum for collaborative work on these topics. We are unified by our commitment to this research and use the lab to effectively conduct existing projects and develop new projects together. The VIO Lab was founded in 2018.
Projects AND PARTNERS
Current areas of research include post-conflict consolidation, intervention invited by fragile states, including to reduce election violence, and policing in comparative contexts. The VIO Lab’s current projects are funded by the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Minerva Research Initiative, and the Peder Sather Center. More on two of our major projects are on Post-Conflict Security Structures and Citizen Buy-In and Security Institutions and Violence Insecurity. Past projects have been funded by the the National Science Foundation, the UC Laboratory Fees Research Program, and others; sponsored by UC-Berkeley’s Social Science Matrix; and we have partnered with the Observatorio de la Democracia on our work in Colombia.
People
Lead:
Aila M. Matanock, Associate Professor at UC-Berkeley, contact: matanock@berkeley.edu
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS:
Nathan Martins, Breanna Pearlman, Monica Sidana
GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Jennie Barker, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: jlbarker@berkeley.edu
Alia Braley, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: alia_braley@berkeley.edu
Juan Campos, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: juan_campos@berkeley.edu
Dylan Forrester, PhD Candidate at UC Davis, contact: dpforrester@ucdavis.edu
Margaret Kenney, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: margaret_kenney@berkeley.edu
Adan Martinez, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: adansteve1394@berkeley.edu
Lily Medina, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: lily.medina@berkeley.edu
Julia Raven, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: juliaraven@berkeley.edu
John Salchak, PhD Student at UC-Berkeley, contact: salchak@berkeley.edu
Oren Samet, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: osamet@berkeley.edu
Alex Stephenson, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: alexander_stephenson@berkeley.edu
Wendy Wagner, PhD Candidate at UCSD, contact: wwagner@ucsd.edu
Andrew Wojtanik, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, awojtanik@berkeley.edu
AFFILIATES:
Daniel Balke, Senior Policy Advisor at USAID, contact: dbalke23@berkeley.edu
Marcelle Cohen, PhD Candidate at UCSB, marcellecohen@ucsb.edu
Justine Davis, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, jumdavis@umich.edu
David Dow, Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, david.dow@nps.edu
Natalia Gabiras-Diaz, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School, ngarbirasdiaz@hbs.edu
Chelsea Johnson, Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, Chelsea.Johnson@liverpool.ac.uk
ALUMNI:
Kelsey Alford-Jones, PhD Candidate at UC-Berkeley, contact: kalfordjones@berkeley.edu
Caroline M. Brandt, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Uppsala University's Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Allison Grossman, Assistant Professor at Tulane University
Biz Herman, Researcher at the International Rescue Committee
Adam Lichtenheld, Executive Director of the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University
Vanessa Navarro Rodriguez, PhD Student at UC-Berkeley
Fiona Shen-Bayh, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland
Colin Walsh, Generalist Delegate at International Committee of the Red Cross
Graduate students, visiting scholars, and other collaborators interested in formally joining the VIO Lab should contact matanock@berkeley.edu.