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Brian Wampler, a professor in the School of Public Service, served as an expert witness in a political asylum case heard before a U.S. federal immigration court. Wampler’s testimony focused on Colombia’s socio-political conditions, and how state fragmentation and multi-actor armed conflict poses an ongoing threat to peace activists.