Assistant Professor

Professor Tajima joins the Political Science Department after his doctoral studies at Harvard University. His research examines the causes of communal violence, dynamics of civil war, and post-war outcomes of former combatants. His dissertation examined communal violence during Indonesia's democratic transition, focusing on the role of informal institutions in explaining local variation in violence. His on-going projects seek to explain local variation in violence during the civil war in Aceh, Indonesia as well as post-war economic outcomes of former insurgent combatants.  He is also a research affiliate with the Order, Conflict, and Violence Program at Yale University's MacMillan Center.

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