Rethinking Women’s Power During and After War
By Marie E. Berry for Denver Dialogues. Noémie was born in the south of Rwanda in the early…
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Can Economic Sanction Activity Improve Human Rights Practices?
Guest post by K. Chad Clay. Governments often use economic sanctions for the expressed reason of curbing poor…
Leaders, Exile, and the Dilemmas of International Justice
By Daniel Krcmaric. Exile has long offered a way for unpopular leaders to step down without facing punishment…
Three Lessons from Victims’ Day in Colombia
Guest post by Roxani Krystalli. On Monday, April 9, 2018, Colombia marked the National Day of Memory and…
How Civilians Talk Their Way out of Violence
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues. When Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2012,…
Media Freedom and Murder in the EU
By Rachel A. Epstein for Denver Dialogues. In February of this year, a 27-year-old Slovak journalist and his…
The Organization of Rebellion: New Research Program on Rebel Governance and Legitimacy
By Cyanne E. Loyle, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, and Joe Young. Scholars and policymakers have a fairly good sense…
Survival is Not Enough: Women Insist on Change in South Sudan
By Ariel Zarate and Marie Berry. Early in 2016, Susan, a mother of two in her early 20s,…
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…
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…