In the UN Security Council, Agreement, Not Discord, is the Norm. But has it Worked for Peacekeeping?
Guest post by Lise Morjé Howard and Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal The UN Security Council’s five permanent members—the United…
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Concerns Over a Coercive Return of Syrian Refugees from Lebanon
By Kelsey Norman Last summer, the issue of refugees returning to Syria began making headlines. The UNHCR reported…
Hard-liners Get What They Want In Israel—A Sanction for More Violence
by Joel Day The recent murder of a Jewish settler in the West Bank has changed the settlement debate…
Trump and the Problem of Pakistan
By Navin Bapat On January 4, President Trump announced that the United States would suspend nearly all aid…
How Civil Wars End
By Lise M. Howard, Associate Professor of Government and Alexandra Stark, Ph.D. Candidate, both in the Department of…
Does the UN Act to Prevent Violent Conflict?
By Peter B. White, David E. Cunningham, and Kyle Beardsley Research into the role of the UN in…
In Search of Recruits, Neo-Nazis Turn to Islamists’ Social Service Provision
Guest post by Megan A. Stewart for Denver Dialogues White supremacists have killed 18 Americans in terrorist attacks since…
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…
Could the Military be a Leader in Combating #MeToo?
By Kyleanne Hunter Two weeks ago, Deborah Avant wrote that the #metoo movement could be good for men,…
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…