PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Findings from Costs of War, a new multi-university research project, will be released on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. The project, which involved more than 20 economists, anthropologists, lawyers, and political scientists, is the most comprehensive analysis to date estimating the human, economic, social, and political toll of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan.

The press release and the project findings will be available at www.news.brown.edu on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, at 1 a.m. EDT.

Costs of War is an undertaking of the Eisenhower Research Project, based at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. Project co-director Catherine Lutz, the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University, will be available for comment and analysis. Contact Deborah Baum at 401-863-2478 or [email protected].