Michael J. Gilligan is Professor of Politics at New York University. He has conducted research on post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation in Burundi, Nepal, Liberia, Cambodia, Iraqi Kurdistan, Somalia and Ivory Coast. He has completed two randomized program evaluations for the World Bank, one on a community-driven development program in in Sudan and one on self-help groups in Cambodia. He completed a randomized program evaluation of a USAID tolerance-building program in Bangladeshi universities. His recent research measures non-state armed groups’ pro-sociality in Nepal, Ivory Coast and Iraqi Kurdistan with behavioral games and surveys to shows how those organizations use social incentives to overcome collective action and principal-agent dilemmas that cannot be solved with economic motivators alone. His current research examines barriers to the civic integration of North Korean defectors in South Korea and the preferences of so-called “sacred values” and “devoted actors” in Israel and Palestine.
Michael J. Gilligan is Professor of Politics at New York University. He has conducted research on post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation in Burundi, Nepal, Liberia, Cambodia, Iraqi Kurdistan, Somalia and Ivory Coast. He has completed two randomized program evaluations for the World Bank, one on a community-driven development program in in Sudan and one on self-help groups in Cambodia. He completed a randomized program evaluation of a USAID tolerance-building program in Bangladeshi universities. His recent research measures non-state armed groups' pro-sociality in Nepal, Ivory Coast and Iraqi Kurdistan with behavioral games and surveys to shows how those organizations use social incentives…