8 April 2021 14:30–15:45 Moderators: Shandana Khan Mohmand (IDS) and Umair Javed (Lahore University of Management Sciences) Date: 8th April 2021 Time: 2:30 PM UK Watch the events live on the LUMS Facebook page. Registration is not required. Professor Robinson discusses one of the most important and puzzling political trends of our time, political polarization, and the social and economic changes that have caused polarization to increase in democratic politics in the 21st century. He examines the strain this is placing on democratic institutions and what implications these changes have for our understanding of democracy as a political system. James Robinson is the Reverend Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and the Director of the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. He is the author of the highly-acclaimed books,