Getting it Wrong About Wartime Sexual Violence
By Andrew Mack Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has played a critically important role in drawing…
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Why Africa’s Rebels Become Dictators
By Barbara F. Walter This post is part of the “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” series. Reader TJW…
Déjà vu in Central Africa
By David E. Cunningham For the last several weeks, M23, a new rebel group made up of former soldiers…
Regional Clusters of Conflict
By David E. Cunningham Last week, I posted about the general decline in the level and severity of…
Syria’s Bad, Bad Chemical Weapons Bluff
By Barbara F. Walter Something strange happened on Monday. The Assad regime came out and publicly declared that they…
Trends in Armed Conflict: Some Bad (But Mostly Good) News
By David E. Cunningham The Uppsala Conflict Data Project released its annual “Armed Conflict Report” this week. That…
The 5 Percent Rule and Indiscriminate Killing of Civilians
By Will H. Moore A remarkably successful bombing yesterday in Damascus has me reflecting on Mark Lichbach’s 5 Percent…
Why Assad’s Regime will (Probably) Survive the Damascus Bombing—For Now
By Erica Chenoweth Some commentators have called Wednesday’s deadly attack on top Syrian defense officials a turning point,…
War Is Easier When It’s All Dudes?
By Kristine Eck The Defense Department recently notified Congress that it will open up nearly 14,000 jobs to…
International Justice and War Crimes in Civil War
By David E. Cunningham Former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s 50-year prison sentence was the first time since Nuremberg…