Dr. Victoria Greenfield Talk on Reduction of Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
Enterprise Hall, 318

Please join Dr. Victoria Greenfield, a scholar visiting the Department of Criminology, Law and Society (CLS), for her talk "Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan."  She will discuss the findings of her recently released RAND report of options for reducing such cultivation.*  Dr. Greenfield, co-author of The World Heroin Market:  Can Supply be Cut?, is currently conducting research on crime-control policy at CLS and is writing Assessing the Harms of Crime:  Towards a New Framework for Crime Control Policy (with Dr. Letizia Paoli).  She holds a position as an adjunct senior economist at the RAND Corporation, and has held positions as ADM Crowe Chair, Department of Economics at the U.S. Naval Academy; Senior Economist for International Trade and Agriculture, Council of Economic Advisers at the White House; and Chief International Economist, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.  (This is a "Brown Bag Lunch" event; all are welcome to bring and eat lunch during the talk.)  Please RSVP using the link on this page.

*Greenfield, Victoria A., Keith Crane, Craig Bond, Nathan Chandler, Jill E. Luoto and Olga Oliker.  Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan.  Santa Monica, CA:  RAND Corporation, 2015.  Click here for a link to the report , and see related commentary on this blog.

 

 

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