Develop Non-Military Options to Empower Communities Against Violent Extremism and Its Drivers
By Maria J. Stephan for Denver Dialogues Amidst bloody civil war, armed insurgency, and extremist violence – think…
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Friday Puzzler: Why Spend on Civil Resistance Abroad?
Guest post by Scott Wisor A recent post by Erica Chenoweth explores why it is that governments like…
Who’s Afraid of “Waging Nonviolence”?
By Erica Chenoweth Since at least 2011, the Chinese government has censored numerous websites on the topic of…
Past and Present in France: Don’t Give Them What They Want
Guest post by Aliza Luft On November 7th, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan shot and killed German diplomat Ernst vom…
Nonviolent Conflicts in 2014 You May Have Missed Because They Were Not Violent
By Erica Chenoweth Last week, Steven Pinker and Andy Mack wrote an article reassuring Slate readers that the…
In Memoriam: Nelson Mandela
By Barbara F. Walter In the early 1990s, I took a class at the University of Chicago where we…
Ukraine and Thailand: They Are the Real Deal
By Erica Chenoweth In case you missed it, Viktor Yanukovich’s U-turn on European integration has incensed many Ukrainians, who…
War Without Weapons: How Non-Violent Campaigns Reduce the Incidence of War
By Andrew Mack Over the past four decades, there has been an astonishing, though little noticed, decline in…
Some Stuff I Learned at ISA
By Erica Chenoweth Like many of my colleagues, I attended the 2013 International Studies Association Annual Meeting in…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth “Peaceful protests are all we have at our disposal.” This thought comes from a Russian…