Minority Groups, Violence, and Voting Systems in Myanmar
Guest post by Luke Sanford Myanmar has largely fallen off the international newsfeed despite Aung San Suu Kyi’s…
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The UN’s Surprisingly Tough Stance on the Vatican
By Barbara F. Walter On Wednesday the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a scathing…
Football, Beer, and Human Trafficking: Just Another American Sunday
Guest post by Davina P. Durgana There has been a lot of recent attention in the media regarding the…
How Government Tracking Works (We Think) and What Average Citizens Can Do About It
By Barbara F. Walter There’s an enormous amount of misperception, cluelessness, and uncertainty about the implications of carrying a…
Going to Sochi
By Andrew Kydd There has been a lot of coverage recently discussing the possibility of a terrorist attack at…
Peace Prospects for the Philippines
By Oliver Kaplan Over the weekend, a historic peace agreement was finalized between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front…
The Text that Changed the World
By Barbara F. Walter On Tuesday the Ukrainian government sent the following text message to thousands of protesters…
PVG’s 2013
By Taylor Marvin 2013 was the first full year for Political Violence @ a Glance, and over the past year some…
Friday Puzzler: Why Would Assad Starve Thousands of Syrians To Death?
By Erica Chenoweth There is harrowing news out of Moadamiya, Syria in the last few weeks. There are still…
In Memoriam: Nelson Mandela
By Barbara F. Walter In the early 1990s, I took a class at the University of Chicago where we…