Unsilencing Pakistan: A Symposium on Nonviolent Activism Against Violence
By Devin Finn for Denver Dialogues Today marks the six-month anniversary of the massacre of 152 Pakistanis–133 of…
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“Hearts & Minds” on My Mind
By Will H. Moore Last week ProPublica carried a post decrying wasted US tax dollars on “Hearts &…
Rethinking Terrorism as a Strategy of Provocation
By Graig R. Klein Max Abrahms blogs in a recent Political Violence @ a Glance post, that terrorism…
Civilian Nonviolent Resistance to ISIS
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues I recently provided an interview to the Centre for Applied Intelligence elaborating on my argument about…
Why the US Shouldn’t Execute the Boston Bomber
By Joe Young Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by his own admission is guilty of the Boston Bombings that took the…
When Militant Groups Attack (Each Other)
Guest post by Brian J. Phillips The Syrian militant group affiliated with al Qaeda, al-Nusra Front, recently “declared…
Security Aid and the Counterterrorism Racket
Guest post by Andrew Boutton In the aftermath of terrorist attacks against Western targets, countries in which these…
Why Groups Use Terrorism: A Reassessment of the Conventional Wisdom
Guest post by Max Abrahms Over the past decade, political scientists have learned a great deal about terrorism.…
Why Was There No “Battle for Baghdad”?
Guest post by Charles Butcher In June 2014, the “Islamic State” captured a string of cites in northern…
Is Boko Haram a Roving Bandit?
Guest post by Kyle Beardsley and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch In recent months, Boko Haram has devastated a number of…