Bridging political science and developmental psychology, I study how the timing and nature of exposure to violence shape people's long-term attitudes toward peace and the reintegration of ex-combatants, drawing on fieldwork in Colombia and Latin America.
My dissertation develops a theory of the heterogeneous, long-term effects of violence and asks how they can inform peace-building and early-childhood policy in post-conflict settings. It comprises three projects:
Does the developmental stage at which a person first experiences violence shape their long-term attitudes toward the reintegration of ex-combatants? Drawing on the idea of sensitive periods, the project distinguishes early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence, using Asking About Violence and Violence Against Children Survey data.
Do people who lived under armed-group governance hold different political attitudes than those who experienced only armed-group presence, or neither? Using subnational variation across Colombian municipalities, the project develops normalization as the mechanism linking sustained exposure to political attitudes and behavior.
Can a Theory of Mind intervention increase empathy toward out-groups among displaced and victimized children and adolescents? The project develops and evaluates an intervention to foster peace-building attitudes early in the life course.
Published in Work in progress, 2023
A multi-country study on the ethics and methodology of measuring exposure to political violence, based on a 3,000+ participant survey experiment in Colombia and Mexico.
Recommended citation: Blair, G., Young, L. E., Littman, R., & Granados, D. S. (work in progress). "Asking About Violence: Ethics and Methodology of Measuring Exposure to Violence."
Published in Working paper, 2022
Working paper examining how gender shapes access to and outcomes of Colombia's land restitution process.
Recommended citation: Montoya, A. M., & Granados, D. S. (2022). "Gender and Land Restitution in Colombia." Working paper.
Published in Research proposal, 2020
Research proposal on the relationship between political violence and the contestation of strategically desirable territories.
Recommended citation: Granados, D. S. (2020). "Political Violence and the Dispute of Desirable Territories." Research proposal.
Published in Research proposal, 2019
Research proposal on how the concentration of political power shapes land outcomes for rural women in Colombia.
Recommended citation: Granados, D. S. (2019). "Political Concentration and its Effect on Land Outcomes for Rural Women in Colombia." Research proposal.