Mailing address
One Brattle Square 513
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Sarah Zukerman Daly
Research Fellow, International Security Program/Intrastate Conflict Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-2352
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: sarah_zukerman@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Sarah Zukerman Daly is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at MIT and a member of MIT’s Security Studies Program. Her interests include civil war, peace processes, ethnic politics, transitional justice, and democratization in Latin America and the former Soviet Union. Sarah holds a B.A. (2003) with Distinction in International Relations from Stanford University and a M.S. (2004) with Distinction in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.
Sarah’s dissertation analyzes variation in demilitarized groups' post-war trajectories and ex-combatants’ reintegration success in Colombia. Her other current projects seek to explain sub-national variation in insurgency onset in Colombia; state strategies towards ethnic minorities in the former Soviet Union; repression and rebellion in El Salvador and Honduras; the effects of foreign fighters on civil wars; and the role of emotions in transitional justice.
Sarah’s research is supported by the Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, U.S. Institute of Peace and MIT’s Center for International Studies. She has conducted field research in Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile and has spent time at the Council on Foreign Relations, World Bank, the International Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Colombian High Council of Reintegration, and the Organizational of America States’ Peace Mission in Colombia.
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January 2009
"Re-Plan Colombia"
Policy Memo
By Sarah Zukerman Daly, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Intrastate Conflict Program
"The financial crisis will require a reevaluation of U.S. aid. Critics of Plan Colombia argue that, in Colombia, union leaders remain at risk, human rights abusers are not brought to justice, the military commits "false positives," and drug eradication has failed. Based on this record, they conclude that the U.S. should reduce or withhold aid from Colombia. This is unsound advice. Colombia has made great advances against the guerrillas and paramilitaries because of U.S. aid. Some 340 politicians who conspired with paramilitaries, 3,000 paramilitaries who committed crimes against humanity, and 14 perpetrators of abuses against union leaders face prosecution because of U.S. aid. These advances in security, justice and democracy would not have occurred without U.S. assistance. However, the critics are not wrong; there is much work left to be done."
