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Claudia Jones was a Trinidad-born journalist and activist. A prominent feminist and communist, her best-known writing is "An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!", which reflects what would come to be known as intersectional analysis. She was deported from the United States, where she had living since she was a child, in 1955 for her political activities. She moved to Britain, where she started the UK's first major black newspaper, West Indian Gazette, in 1958. This was a major contributor to the rise of consciousness within the

The ViEWS project has developed, tested, and iteratively improved a pilot Violence Early-Warning System since January 2017, providing early warnings for the three forms of political violence recorded by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. ViEWS is rigorous, data-based, open-source, and publicly available to researchers and the international community. The talk will present the most recent version of the ViEWS pilot, explaining the methodology, and detail the recent forecasts.

Electoral accountability relies, in part, on voters willingness to cross party lines to select a competent opposition politician. Knowing when voters will cross party lines is essential for democratic representation. I argue that two critical constituency-level factors will jointly influence the likelihood that a voter will vote for an opponent: the partisan geography and the level of electoral competition. Regarding the first, voters have an incentive to vote for opponents in partisan non-segregated districts because, in these settings, politicians cannot channel goods to home areas.