Dubious Quality

For about a month this summer, it looked like he was going to Afghanistan for field research. A circus (located in multiple countries) has been operating in Afghanistan for decades as a peacebuilding initiative, and its director presented at the Art as Peacebuilding seminar Eli sponsored at Oxford. It was a unique opportunity to gather data.

It was also, to me, very scary, for security reasons.

As it turns out, no Afghanistan, at least for this year. Instead, he's going back to Colombia for a month. He designed his master's thesis so that it wasn't dependent on him going to Afghanistan, so he'll be able to use the data he gathers in Colombia without any major rework. Plus his advisor will be in Colombia at the same time. 

No, Colombia isn't completely safe, either, but unless you go to Japan, every country is either dangerous in some way or the government is dangerous. In many countries, both.

By the end of this year, in the last fifteen months I'll have traveled to Japan, Mexico, Canada, and England. I feel like James Bond, compared to my usual travel schedule. And it's still nothing compared to him.