Last spring more than 1,000 people died in the clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the streets of Gujurat, India. In his research of ethnic violence, however, political scientist Ashutosh Varshney decided to look where many don't: peaceful cities. The results of his nine-year study have dramatically changed the way UN officials approach other global hotspots. Also on the program, the EPA is leaving global warming alone. In a recent report on the state of the environment, the department does not include a word on CO2 emissions, and free-marketers are applauding.
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Cricketing Alone
Ashutosh Varshney, associate professor of political science, director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and author of Ethnic Conflict & Civic Life: Hindus & Muslims in India (Yale University Press, 2002), on how civic institutions prevent ethnic violence