Will Iraqi Kurds Go It Alone?
Guest post by Ariel I. Ahram. The Islamic State has gained the most attention for its bid to destroy…
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What Happens When Peacekeepers Come Home (Spoiler: No One Really Knows)?
Guest post by Jonathan D. Caverley and Jesse Dillon Savage. In November last year, President Obama announced a plan…
Interpreting the Migration Crisis: A Symposium
By Cassy Dorff, Faten Ghosn, Alex Braithwaite, and Andrew Linke for Denver Dialogues In 2015, the UN stated…
After The Violence: Three Things We Know About the Effects of War Trauma and What We Can Do About It
By Thomas Zeitzoff As the Syrian Civil War approaches its fifth anniversary, the best estimates suggest that over…
Seeing Flight as a Non-violent Option: One Way to Change the Discourse about the World’s 60 Million Refugees
By Erica Chenoweth and Hakim Young for Denver Dialogues Today, one in every 122 humans living on the…
Why the Islamic State is so Bad at Being a State
Guest Post by Megan Stewart for Denver Dialogues As it conquered territory throughout Syria and Iraq, the Islamic…
A Woman Did That? Thoughts on Women Perpetrators of Violence
by Trishna Rana and Marie Berry for Denver Dialogues When news of another mass shooting, this time in…
Does Segregation Work to Prevent Ethnic Violence? Not in Northern Ireland.
By Laia Balcells, Lesley-Ann Daniels, and Abel Escriba-Folch Does segregation work to prevent ethnic violence? This question has…
Does Emergency Food Assistance Prolong Conflict?
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues If the first casualty of war is the truth, the second is…
Overconfidence and the War in Syria
Guest post by Dominic Johnson The attacks in Paris have elevated both the desire and the case for…