{{short description|American political scientist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Dana Burde | image = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | fields = {{ubl|Political science}} | alma_mater = {{ubl|Oberlin College|Harvard University|Columbia University}} | workplaces = {{ubl|Columbia University|New York University}} | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | awards = Grawemeyer Award }} '''Dana Burde''' is an American political scientist. She is a professor at New York University, where she is also Director of International Education. Burde studies the relationship between level of education and violent conflict, particularly in Afghanistan, as well as how humanitarian organizations and government policies can promote successful education outcomes. For her book ''Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan'', Burde won the 2017 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
==Education and early work== Burde attended Oberlin College, where she obtained a BA in English literature.<ref name=profile>{{cite web |url=https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/dana-burde |title=Dana Burde Profile |publisher=New York University |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> She then graduated from Harvard University with a Master's in Educational Administration/International Education, followed by a PhD in Comparative Education and Political Science from Columbia University.<ref name=profile/> After graduating from Columbia, she continued at Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and an Associate Research Scholar, after which she joined the faculty at New York University.<ref name=profile/> She is also affiliated with the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.<ref name=profile/>
==Career== Burde's work focuses both on the effects of conflict on education and the effects of education on levels of violence, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kenya.<ref name=profile/> In 2014 Burde published the book ''Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan'', in which she examines the relationship between education and conflict in Afghanistan. The book is based on years of field research, with one study conducted in Panjshir Valley in 2006 and another in Ghor province in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/reviews/106106/clemans-burde-schools-conflict-or-peace-afghanistan |title=Clemans on Burde, 'Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan' |publisher=H-Net |date=January 2016 |first=Paul |last=Clemans |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> Contrary to a common assumption that increases in education lead to decreases in conflict, Burde argues that the effect of education level on conflict is contingent on both the education's content and whether or not education is distributed equitably throughout a population.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Mujtaba |last=Hedayet |title=Review of Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan |journal=Comparative Education Review |volume=59 |issue=4 |date=November 2015 |pages=788789 |doi=10.1086/684048}}</ref> Burde argues that the implementation of community education in Afghanistan could improve the distribution of educational opportunities, because community education can take place in arbitrarily remote areas, and is particularly effective at increasing the rate of female education.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Mieke Lopes Cardozo |author2=Felix Fritsch |author3=Taru Niskanen |title=Review of Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan |journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |volume=38 |issue=4 |date=2 October 2015 |pages=852–853 |doi=10.1080/00856401.2015.1082217|url=https://dare.uva.nl/personal/pure/en/publications/review-of-d-burde-2014-schools-for-conflict-or-for-peace-in-afghanistan(15dc67c1-5205-4021-aff4-e835e684de42).html }}</ref> This argument relies on Burde's work conducting randomized controlled trials to test the effectiveness of community education programs, as well as interviews from her field research and an analysis of the contents of textbooks.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Julia |last=Paulson |title=Review of Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan; From classrooms to conflict in Rwanda |journal=Comparative Education |volume=52 |issue=2 |date=2 April 2016 |pages=273–274 |doi=10.1080/03050068.2016.1166867|s2cid=147895884 }}</ref> Burde uses this evidence to argue that policies promoting community education in Afghanistan have the potential to make education access more equitable than centralized state education.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Stephen A. |last=Bahry |title=Review of Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan |journal=Comparative and International Education |volume=44 |issue=2 |date=1 December 2015 |pages=1–2|doi=10.5206/cie-eci.v44i2.9279 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
For ''Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan'', Burde won the 2017 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.<ref name=graw>{{cite web |url=http://grawemeyer.org/2017-recipients-inspiration-innovation-and-action-for-a-better-world/ |title=2017 Recipients |publisher=University of Louisville |date=4 May 2017 |first=Kim |last=Butterweck |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> The award was granted "for analyzing the relationship between education and political violence in Afghanistan", and highlighting "positive outcomes of foreign aid and the power of good quality curricula and accessible, community-based schools".<ref name=graw/>
Burde's work has been covered, or she has been interviewed, in media outlets like ''The Washington Post'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08/the-taliban-indoctrinates-kids-with-jihadist-textbooks-paid-for-by-the-u-s/ |title=The Taliban indoctrinates kids with jihadist textbooks paid for by the U.S. |date=8 December 2014 |newspaper=The Washington Post |last=Tharoor |first=Ishaan |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> ''The New York Times'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-islam.html |title=Saudis and Extremism: 'Both the arsonists and the firefighters' |date=25 August 2016 |work=The New York Times |last=Shane |first=Scott |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> ''Al Jazeera'',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/7/afghan-fighters-americantextbooks.html |title='Infidels are our enemy': Afghan fighters cherish old American schoolbooks |date=7 December 2014 |work=Al Jazeera |last=Crilly |first=Rob |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> ''The National Interest'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/tipping-over-three-cups-tea-4095 |title=Tipping over Three Cups of Tea |publisher=The National Interest |date= 17 September 2010|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> and NPR,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/12/06/368452888/q-a-j-is-for-jihad |title=Q&A: J Is For Jihad |date=6 December 2014 |work=NPR |last=Kamenetz |first=Anya |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> and on the blogs of The World Bank<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-especially-girls |title=If you build it, they will come. Especially girls. |publisher=The World Bank |date=15 May 2012 |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/effect-village-based-schools-afghanistan |title=The Effect of Village-Based Schools in Afghanistan |publisher=Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref>
==Selected works== *"Assessing Impact and Bridging Methodological Divides: Randomized Trials in Countries Affected by Conflict", ''Comparative Education Review'' (2011) *"Bringing education to Afghan girls: A randomized controlled trial of village-based schools", ''American Economic Journal: Applied Economics'' (2013) *''Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan'' (2014)
==Selected awards== *Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (2017)<ref name=graw/>
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