Enterprising Extremists: Crime, Religion, and Political Violence in Pakistan

Rabia Zafar (Tufts University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Zafar's field research supported her dissertation which "examines local, non-ideological drivers of religious violence. It questions
why we see subnational variation in religious violence across time and argues that a key group of violent entrepreneurs can impact overall trends in violence."