Conflict and Contagions: Disease Burden and Civil War
Cullen S. Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing what is now the seventh…
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Anarchy is Scary: New Evidence from Somalia
Guest post by Jesse Driscoll. “Look, in Somalia, the cell phone system works…and it’s the only thing, maybe,…
Five Major Puzzles in Political Violence Today
By Barbara F. Walter. The Friday Puzzler is back! Between 2012 and 2015 I ran a Friday feature…
Repression, Regime Consolidation, and Latin America’s Authoritarian (Re)Turn
By Kai Thaler for Denver Dialogues. This week, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is planning to attend the United…
How Assad Won the Syrian Civil War Before It Began
Guest post by Eric Mosinger. In recent months, many observers of the still-smoldering civil war in Syria have…
How Human Boundaries Become State Borders: Territorial Change Now and in the Future
Guest post by Peter Krause and Ehud Eiran. State-led attempts to expand their territory are becoming less and…
Why the Decolonizing Education Movement Matters for Peacebuilding and Democracy: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina
By Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic for Denver Dialogues. It has been three and a half years since the ‘decolonizing education’ movement began.…
Making Efforts to Improve UN Peacekeeping
Guest post by Chiara Ruffa. UN peacekeeping often works: overwhelming evidence tells us it saves lives, and—usually—keeps peace…
What We Know – and Don’t Know – about Religious Civil Wars
Guest post by Desirée Nilsson and Isak Svensson. Ongoing civil wars in Syria, Mali, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Thailand,…
States are Far Less Likely to Engage in Mass Violence Against Nonviolent Uprisings than Violent Uprisings
By Erica Chenoweth and Evan Perkoski for Denver Dialogues. What drives governments to crack down on and kill…