Barbara Harff
Political scientist — risk modeling · United States (US Naval Academy, emerita)
Affiliated with Political Instability Task Force (PITF)
Pioneered quantitative models for forecasting genocide and politicide risk; built the genocide/politicide component of the PITF dataset.
Her risk-modeling work was conducted for the CIA-funded Political Instability Task Force.
Long association with the US-government-sponsored PITF.
Core genocide/politicide risk modeling was produced under CIA-funded Political Instability Task Force sponsorship — an important transparency consideration when weighing model outputs as neutral science.
A foundational figure in atrocity early-warning modeling, widely cited. Her core data work was produced under US-intelligence-community sponsorship.
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Sources & disclosures
- PITF (genocide/politicide work) — Wikipedia