Friday Puzzler: The Mystery of the Un-Recovered Nigerian Girls
By Barbara F. Walter Today’s puzzler is short and sweet: How is it possible that no government, including…
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Looking Back on 2014
By Danny Hirschel-Burns It’s been another great year for Political Violence @ a Glance. We won the International…
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…
On Local Backlash to Foreign Human Rights Pressure
By Sarah Bush This spring, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill that criminalizes homosexuality. At…
Boko Haram Is Winning, and You Are Helping
By Will H. Moore Boko Haram (BH) has had a banner couple of weeks, and the western press…
Why Kidnap Girls?
By Barbara F. Walter One of the strategies that Boko Haram has pursued in its attempt to overthrow the…
Rwanda, Remembrance and Research: Or, How Rwandan Violence Taught Me to Embrace Subnational/Disaggregated Conflict Studies and Integral Conflict Research
By Christian Davenport Fourteen years ago I began a journey to understand the political violence that took place in…
Not Just Victims and Perpetrators: Understanding Rwanda’s Genocide, Twenty Years-On
Guest post by Aliza Luft One day about twenty years ago, a Hutu soldier in Rwanda accepted twenty-five dollars…
The World’s Newest War in the World’s Newest State
By Tanisha Fazal The ongoing conflict in South Sudan has quickly escalated into civil war. With President Salva…
Why Such Sparse Coverage of Africa’s Wars?
By Barbara F. Walter Over the past two+ years, the war in Syria has dominated policy debates and newspaper…