- Invited to speak on a “Gender Equality, Health Equity and Peace” panel at the Quality of Government Institute/Lancet QoG/Lancet Policy Day: Policy Pathways to Sustainable Well-Being and Peace through Investments in Institutional Quality, Health Equity and Gender Equality under Crisis and Conflict, November 25/26, 2024.
- Invited as an expert on “Peace and Justice in the Middle East” at the Middle East Peace and Peace and Security (MEPS) Forum by Wilton Park, November 18-22, 2024.
- Expert Analysis. 2016-2024. Freedom in the World Report: Jordan. Freedom House.
- Invited to speak on a “Rehabilitation of ISIS-affiliated families” policy panel for the XCEPT project at Kings College London, October 23, 2024.
- Invited talk on “The Power of the Past: Determinants of Reconciliation and Revenge in Post-Conflict Settings.” United Nations and the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) Behavioral Science Week. June 14, 2023. Attended by over 190 policy practitioners and academics.
- Ghassaban, Mina, Iman Abu Zueiter, Sinamis Doughouz and Kristen Kao. 2023. “A Multidimensional Understanding of Syrian Refugees’ Integration in Jordan, Turkey, and Sweden”. Policy report for the Refugees in Cities: Social Institutions, Political Governance, and Integration Research Environment.
- “Legal Pluralism and Fragmented Sovereignty After Conflict” Uppsala University and The Folke Bernadotte Academy (Swedish Government Agency for Peace, Security and Development) “Ending Islamist Civil Wars” Workshop, Oct 8, 2021.
- Served as an “Ignite” Speaker for a Policy-Research Day with SIDA, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Folke Bernadotte Academy (Swedish Government Agency for Peace, Security and Development), The International Crisis Group, and others, October 11, 2021.
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With Abulrazzaq Al-Saiedi, Marsin Alshamary, Fotini Christia, and Jacob Shapiro. 2021. “Elections Series: Iraq – Parliamentary.” Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) blog. https://egap.org/resource/elections-series-iraq-parliamentary/
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Kao, Kristen with Mara Revkin. 2021. “To Punish or To Pardon: Reintegrating Rebel Collaborators After Conflict in Iraq” Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Podcast. https://soundcloud.com/pomeps-245027518
- Kao, Kristen. With Ezra Karmel. 2020. “What do Jordan’s Election Results Mean?” The Washington Post/Monkey Cage. Available here. Picked up and translated locally, discussed on Al Hurra News Channel here and on Al Jazeera’s Facebook page with thousands of likes and hundreds of comments here.
- Kao, Kristen and Mara Revkin. 2019. “How the Iraqi crackdown on the Islamic State may actually increase support for the Islamic State.” Washington Post/Monkey Cage. Click here.
- Kao, Kristen, Ellen Lust, and Marc Lynch. 2017. “Are Islamists making a comeback in the Middle East? Here’s why they succeed—and fail”. Washington Post/Monkey Cage. Click here.
- Kao, Kristen. 2016. “How Jordan’s Election Revealed Enduring Weaknesses in its Political System.” (Alternative Title: “Why Jordanian Elections Lack Political Parties (and the Answer is Not Tribes).”) Washington Post/Monkey Cage. Click Here
- Kao, Kristen. 2015. “Do Jordan’s Tribes Challenge or Strengthen the State?” Washington Post/Monkey Cage. Click Here
- Kao, Kristen. 2012. “Jordan’s Ongoing Election Law Battle.” Sada. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Click Here
Below is a podcast about my projects on post-conflict reconciliation in Iraq for the Governance Uncovered series directed by Professor Ellen Lust.
Here is a quick 9 minute video presentation of my dissertation research that was created for a general (non-academic) audience: “The Parliamentary Puzzle: Why Vote in an Autocracy?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruD67T6wnoU#action=share