Peace Enforcement and the Geography of Violence Against Civilians
Guest post by Jay Benson. UN peacekeeping is facing significant challenges. The peacekeeping budget has taken significant cuts,…
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Conflict Researchers Should Care About the Political Economy of Data Production
Guest post by Andrew Kerner and Charles Crabtree. Conflict scholars, policy professionals, and non-profit organizations routinely link the…
The Sophomore Curse: Sampling Bias and the Future of Climate-Conflict Research
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. Recently, Nature Climate Change published a study demonstrating significant sampling bias in…
Getting the Youth Bulge Wrong
By Aaron Stanley Africa’s population is growing and quickly. Even those who are generally unaware of happenings on…
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…
Wakanda, Afrofuturism, and Decolonizing International Relations Scholarship
By Yolande Bouka for Denver Dialogues Next week, Marvel Studios will release one of its most anticipated films…
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…
Five Ways Art and War Are Related
By Dawn Brancati Art is used to promote war. Monarchs, dictators, and elected world leaders have all commissioned…
Prestige, Dignity, and Job Security: How Army Integration Promotes Peace
By Julia Strasheim and Subindra Bogati After civil war, policies that deal with former rebel combatants often envision to…
Societal Factors behind the Explosive Growth of Salafi Jihadist Groups
By Moorthy S. Muthuswamy As noted in a 2014 RAND report, the past few decades have witnessed a…