How Civil Wars End
By Lise M. Howard, Associate Professor of Government and Alexandra Stark, Ph.D. Candidate, both in the Department of…
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Grievances, Accommodation, and the Decline of Ethnic Violence
By Lars Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, & Julian Wucherpfennig The finding that violent conflict has declined, especially after…
Civilians, Coups, and Criminal Conflict: A List of Must-read Scholarship on Political Violence From 2017
By Drew Stommes Fifteen scholars of political violence provided me with recommendations on what they regarded as the…
Searching for Silver Linings from 2017
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Conflict scholarship can be a grim work, and 2017 provided bushels of…
Prestige, Dignity, and Job Security: How Army Integration Promotes Peace
By Julia Strasheim and Subindra Bogati After civil war, policies that deal with former rebel combatants often envision to…
What We Know about Militant Groups as Political Parties
By Aila Matanock Featured on both wanted posters and campaign posters in Pakistan, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is not…
What the FARC’s Facts Mean for Reintegration
by Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues Last week, Colombia and the former FARC rebels celebrated the first birthday…
Are Micro Level Studies Important for Our Understanding of Civil War, Irregular Warfare, and Political Violence?
By Huseyin Tunc “Daesh members came to our village, Kocho in Shingal [north west Iraq]. Some wore masks…
A Role for Ex-Combatants in Post-Conflict Reconciliation
Guest Post by Pauline Moore for Denver Dialogues What role can ex-combatants play in leading reconciliation processes in…
Advantages of a Civilian Mission: Keeping the Peace in Ukraine
Guest Post by Fred Tanner for Denver Dialogues The forgotten war Ukraine, which slipped into civil war more than…