Can People Be Manipulated to Protest?
Guest post by Sarah J. Lockwood We live in an era of increasing protest, with large-scale, sustained social…
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Why Environmental Defenders Are Under Threat
Guest post by Daniel Braaten The world is facing twin environmental horrors: climate change and a biodiversity crisis.…
Food Insecurity and Unrest: What You Need to Know
Guest post by Thomas S. Benson, Ore Koren, and Benjamin E. Bagozzi Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked…
War and Food Insecurity: New Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Guest post by Ida Rudolfsen, Gudrun Østby, Henrikas Bartusevičius, Florian van Leeuwen Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine…
Supreme Court Decisions Put Human Security At Risk
By Michael Barnett The recent US Supreme Court decisions to strike down New York’s century-old gun control law,…
Abortion Bans Are a Tool of Political Repression
By Emily Hencken Ritter and guest contributor Jennifer N. Barnes On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court…
Civilian Collaboration and Reprisals Behind Ukraine’s Front Lines
By Pearce Edwards The city of Bucha, outside Kyiv, witnessed one of the worst atrocities in the early…
Marking World Refugee Day: What Do the Experts Say?
By Alex Braithwaite, and guest contributor Miranda Simon Each year on June 20th, the world is encouraged to…
Juneteenth 2.0—or Putting Black Folk Back into Their Emancipation
By Christian Davenport I know you are wondering why you are seeing something that you believe is connected…
Education Reduced Crime in Mexico: Broader Welfare Can Do Even More
Guest post by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Mauricio Rivera, and Barbara A. Zarate-Tenorio Many scholars have suggested that education…