What are the multiple costs and consequences of the ongoing wars of the 21st century? For over a decade, researchers at Brown University’s Costs of War Project – in collaboration with over 60 scholars, experts, human rights advocates, and physicians from around the world – have sought to answer this question.

On Monday, Jan. 20, from 3-4 p.m. in Kathryn Mohrman Theatre, research partners Dr. Jennifer Greenburg, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Sheffield, and Dr. David Vine, Board of Directors Member for the Costs of War Project and Former Professor of Anthropology at American University (2006-2024), will give an overview of the human toll of war, including death and displacement, injuries to mental and physical health, and sexual violence, as well as the budgetary and other economic consequences of war and military spending. On this day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, we invite our community to gather for reflection on one dimension of Dr. King’s legacy: his analysis of the unequally borne burdens and injustices of war.

This event is sponsored by the CC Departments of History, Political Science, and Economics and Business, and the H. Chase Stone Fund.