Do Revelations of Injustice Increase Violence?
By Erica Chenoweth Critics of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s use of…
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States of Fear and Killing AFROzilla
By Christian Davenport Over the last few incidents involving the police and African Americans, we have repeatedly been…
The North Korean Paper Trail
By Leslie Vinjamuri Last Tuesday, a United Nations General Assembly committee condemned North Korea for its appalling human rights…
Local Ceasefires in Syria: What Are the Prospects?
By Oliver Kaplan What are the prospects for local efforts to reduce the killing in Syria? So far,…
Predicting Government Violence to Improve Theory and Practice
Guest post by Daniel W. Hill Jr. and Zachary M. Jones Why do some governments generally respect the fundamental…
Measuring, “Denying” & “Trivializing” Deaths in the Case of Rwanda
By Christian Davenport Reading “The Reign of ‘Terror” by Tomis Kapitan in the New York Times on October…
The Needs of the Victims
Guest post by Javier Argomaniz and Orla Lynch Last June, the UN General Assembly carried out their latest…
The Chinese Government is Losing the Tech War Against Hong Kong Protesters
By Barbara F. Walter This past week the Chinese Government took a cue from Putin’s playbook. Just as…
Sexual and Ethnic Violence and the Construction of the Islamic State
Guest post by Ariel Ahram The protection of women, children, and religious minorities stand prominently among the reasons President…
Averting the Next Ferguson: One Simple Solution
Guest post by Zoltan Hajnal It appears that violence in Ferguson is fading away. That is certainly a…