Bret Gustafson is working on the relationship between natural gas economies and civil-territorial conflict in Latin America (Bolivia). A chapter titled, "Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Natural Gas and Territorial Politics in Bolivia" is forthcoming in The Anthropology of Oil.

Derek Pardue edited "Ruminations on Violence," an interdisciplinary volume of essays, poems, and art work related to conditions and aesthetics of violence from a global perspective.

Robert Canfield has recently published several articles on conflict in Afghanistan and Central Asia. On political movements among the Hazaras: “New Trends among the Hazaras” (Iranian Studies 37(2): 241-262.). On conflict in traditional settings in Afghanistan: “Recollections of a Hazara wedding in the 1930s” and “Trouble in Birgilich,” (in Everyday Life in Central Asia). An article on the Taliban entitled “Fraternity, power, and time in Central Asia” is forthcoming in A Decade of the Taliban, 1994-2004.

John Bowen’s piece on The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict has been widely reprinted; he writes on issues of integration and difference in Europe and Indonesia.

Glenn Stone maintains an interest in the nexus of land conflict, agricultural intensification, and population density. He has written about this in modern Nigeria and the prehistoric U.S. southwest.

Peter Benson has studied ethnographic dimensions of social suffering and violence in Guatemala in the aftermath of Civil War and neoliberal market reforms (see a recent article in Anthropological Quarterly).

Anna Jacobsen is studying post-conflict trauma and cultural transformation among Somalis in Kenya.