Denver Dialogues was an online exchange among scholars and policymakers on violence and its alternatives in global politics. Hosted by faculty in the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, Denver Dialogues provided weekly discussion on Political Violence @ A Glance, with the aim of recasting outmoded understandings of conflict and violence and coming to terms with recent trends, how they interact, and what they suggest for policy.
Denver Dialogues was supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and was part of a larger program at the Sié Center focused on changing trends in conflict and violence, with a particular focus on non-state actors and the impact of non-violent actions on the course of conflict. Built on the assumption that scholarship is critical to informing policy and vice versa, each aspect of the Sié Center project—including the Denver Dialogues posts published on PV@G—aimed to improve the transfer of research and expertise among academia and governmental and non-governmental policy actors.
Denver Dialogues Posts
- Responsible Policy Engagement: Some Challenges, Cullen S. Hendrix, June 18, 2019.
- Abortion Restrictions as State Violence, Marie Berry, June 4, 2019.
- When Norms Collide: Business, Human Rights, and Economic Development in Colombia, Laura Bernal-Bermúdez and Tricia D. Olsen, May 28, 2019.
- What to do When Women Politicians are Attacked? Here are Four Ideas from Around the World, Juliana Restrepo-Sanín, May 14, 2019.
- Radicalization in the German Armed Forces and Beyond, Rachel Epstein, May 7, 2019.
- Authoritarian Resilience: Why Bouteflika and Bashir Fell, but Ortega Remains, Kai Thaler, April 30, 2019.
- Elections South Africa 2019: 25 Years “Post-Apartheid,” la luta continua…, Timothy D. Sisk, April 24, 2019.
- Rwanda’s Protection Lessons for Peacekeeping, Oliver Kaplan, April 10, 2019.
- The Mueller Report and Global Contentious Politics, Deborah Avant, March 26, 2019.
- Why “Bread and Oil” Protests in Sudan Prompted a Cabinet Reshuffle, Cullen Hendrix, March 19, 2019.
- Temper the Treaty Fever: Why a Treaty Won’t Solve the Business and Human Rights Conundrum, Tricia D. Olsen, March 13, 2019.
- Despite its Advances, the Colombian Peace Agreement Undermines Gender Equality Goals, Juliana Restrepo Sanin, March 5, 2019.
- Brexit: Britain Succumbs to Nationalist Intoxication, Martin Rhodes, February 26, 2019.
- What We Can Learn from Looking at Private Security Across Time and Space, Deborah Avant and Kara Kingma Neu, February 19, 2019.
- The Politics of Transitional Justice in Colombia, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell, February 12, 2019.
- Resisting Coca: How Communities Avoid Narco-economies, Oliver Kaplan, February 5, 2019.
- What is Happening in Venezuela? Consuelo Amat, February 2, 2019.
- Resisting Democratic Erosion in Latin America and Beyond, Kai Thaler, January 15, 2019.
- Lost Job—Will Travel: Trade-Related Job Losses and Military Recruitment, Cullen Hendrix, January 8, 2019.
- Theresa May’s Brexit Debacle, Martin Rhodes, December 11, 2018.
- #16Days: Eliminating Violence Against Women, Marie Berry, November 29, 2018.
- The US Elected a Record Number of Women: Now They May Face Violence, Juliana Restrepo Sanín, November 28, 2018.
- What’s at Stake for Syrian Returnees, Kelsey Norman, November 20, 2018.
- Who Will Manage the Trade-offs Between Rights and Security on the Internet?, Deborah Avant, October 23, 2018.
- Conflict and Contagions: Disease Burden and Civil War, Cullen S. Hendrix, October 9, 2018.
- Self-Sacrifice, Moral Crisis, and Legitimacy in Mass Mobilization against Repression, Erica Chenoweth, October 2, 2018.
- Repression, Regime Consolidation, and Latin America’s Authoritarian (Re)Turn, Kai Thaler, September 25, 2018.
- Key Informant Loss, Oliver Kaplan, September 19, 2018.
- Polarization, Populism, and PR: Proportional, Inclusive Elections Appear to be the Key to Countering Social Polarization, Timothy D. Sisk, September 14, 2018.
- All Stick, No Carrots: The Shortsighted Geopolitics of the Iran Sanctions, Cullen Hendrix, August 21, 2018.
- Why the Decolonizing Education Movement Matters for Peacebuilding and Democracy: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, August 14, 2018.
- Between Authoritarianism and Democracy, Alexander Beresford, Marie E. Berry, and Laura Mann, July 31, 2018.
- Migration in the Mediterranean: A Second Crisis of Europe’s Making, Devon Cone and Kelsey P. Norman, July 17, 2018.
- What Are the Roots of Restraint?, Oliver Kaplan and Andrew Bell, July 2, 2018.
- Cross Fertilization and Research on the “Welfare Non-State”, Deborah Avant, June 12, 2018.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Status: The Economic Anxiety vs. Status Loss Debate, Cullen Hendrix, June 5, 2018.
- The Logic of Credible Commitments in the Covert Sphere, Michael Poznansky and William Spaniel, May 15, 2018.
- States are Far Less Likely to Engage in Mass Violence Against Nonviolent Uprisings than Violent Uprisings, Erica Chenoweth and Evan Perkoski, May 8, 2018.
- Migration, Cities, and Engaged Scholarship, Kelsey P. Norman, May 1, 2018.
- Rethinking Women’s Power During and After War, Marie E. Berry, April 24, 2018.
- What is the Role of Government Regulation for International Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?, Jette Steen Knudsen and Jeremy Moon, April 17, 2018.
- How Civilians Talk Their Way out of Violence, Oliver Kaplan, April 3, 2018.
- Media Freedom and Murder in the EU, Rachel A. Epstein, March 27, 2018.
- Lessons from the Cambridge Analytica Files: Don’t Be Evil, Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks, March 20, 2018.
- Is the Liberal Order in Crisis?, Deborah Avant, March 13, 2018.
- The Sophomore Curse: Sampling Bias and the Future of Climate-Conflict Research, Cullen Hendrix, March 6, 2018.
- Concerns Over a Coercive Return of Syrian Refugees from Lebanon, Kelsey Norman, February 20, 2018.
- Wakanda, Afrofuturism, and Decolonizing International Relations Scholarship, Yolande Bouka, February 6, 2018.
- In Search of Recruits, Neo-Nazis Turn to Islamists’ Social Service Provision, Megan A. Stewart, January 30, 2018.
- Could the Military be a Leader in Combating #MeToo?, Kyleanne Hunter, January 23, 2018.
- Was the End of the Cold War the Beginning of the Oil Curse?, Cullen Hendrix, January 16, 2018.
- Why #metoo Could be Good for Men, Too, Deborah Avant, January 9, 2018.
- Will Killer Robots Be Banned? An Update After Geneva, Julia M. Macdonald, January 4, 2018.
- Searching for Silver Linings from 2017, Cullen Hendrix, January 2, 2018.
- What the FARC’s Facts Mean for Reintegration, Oliver Kaplan, November 28, 2017.
- Charismatic Megafauna in Conflict Studies or Why WWII is the Giant Panda of the Conflict Security Field, Cullen Hendrix, November 21, 2017.
- Trump and Trade: Or, When Hubris Assaults the International Order, Martin Rhodes, November 14, 2017.
- Did Banning Assault Weapons Affect Mass Shootings?, Brian Phillips, November 7, 2017.
- A Role for Ex-Combatants in Post-Conflict Reconciliation, Pauline Moore, October 31, 2017.
- Can Civilian Nonviolent Action Deter Massacres?, Oliver Kaplan, September 26, 2017.
- Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War, Cullen Hendrix, September 19, 2017.
- From Stability to Charlottesville: What to Look for in the German Elections, Rachel Epstein, Sept 12, 2017.
- Free to Choose? Violent vs. Nonviolent Resistance and the Limits of Choice, Cullen Hendrix, August 29, 2017
- Pro Government Militia and the Philippines Other Insurgency, Stephen Zech and Joshua Eastin, August 22, 2017
- The Legacy of Reconstruction and Occupation After the US Civil War, Megan Stewart, August 15, 2017
- When Zuma #Falls: Stress-Testing Democracy in South Africa, Timothy D. Sisk, August 1, 2017.
- “Hacking” the Reintegration of FARC Rebels in Colombia, Oliver Kaplan, July 25, 2017.
- US-Mexico Relations and the Security Stakes of NAFTA Renegotiation, Cullen Hendrix, July 18, 2017.
- Why the Transatlantic Relationship Will (Probably) Survive Trump, Rachel Epstein and Martin Rhodes, July 11, 2017.
- Trump, Mattis, and the Future of Afghanistan, Evan Perkoski, featuring Deborah Avant, Nader Hashemi, and Kirstin Brathwaite, June 27, 2017.
- Trump’s Emerging Policy on Countering Violent Extremism, Michael Kalin, June 20, 2017.
- Security Dilemmas, Elite Manipulation, and US Politics Today, Erica Chenoweth, June 13, 2017.
- Women and Power After War, Marie Berry and Milli Lake, June 6, 2017.
- Brexit, Ireland, and Northern Ireland, Etain Tannam, May 30, 2017.
- The Future of War is in Cities – the Study of War Should Follow Suit, Margarita Konaev, May 23, 2017.
- Do Realists Need to Check Their Idealism?, Deborah Avant, May 16, 2017.
- Sanctions: The Unintended Consequences, Colton Heffington, May 9, 2017.
- Protect the People to Protect the Peace, Oliver Kaplan, Emma Dunn, and Natalie Southwick, May 2, 2017.
- What Will Changed, What Will Change, and What Likely Won’t, Cullen Hendrix, April 25, 2017.
- Public Intellectuals, International Security, and Trump, Rachel A. Epstein and Martin Rhodes, April 18, 2017.
- Can Asylum Seekers be Deterred?, Anna Oltman, April 11, 2017.
- Sufis, Salafis, and the Religious Pacification of the African Sahel, Michael Kalin, April 4, 2017.
- When Engaged Scholarship Means Resistance, Erica Chenoweth, March 28, 2017.
- How Trump’s Budget May Harm US Counterterrorism, Peter S. Henne, March 21, 2017.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina – Two Decades After Dayton, Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, March 14, 2017.
- How Will Trump Wage War? What Early Signs of a Risk-Acceptant President Mean for US Military Operations, Julia Macdonald and Jacquelyn Schneider, March 7, 2017.
- Where is the Global Left Wing?, Deborah Avant, February 28, 2017.
- How Organization Theorists Help Explain Military Power, Ryan Grauer, February 21, 2017.
- What Wars Do We Know About?, Cullen Hendrix, February 7, 2017.
- Mr. President, Please Defend Peace in Europe, Rachel Epstein, January 31, 2017.
- Will Integrating Women into Armed Groups Prevent Rape? Meredith Loken, January 24, 2017.
- Breathing While Muslim in the Age of Trump, Michael Kalin and Nazita Lajevardi, January 17, 2017.
- Corporate Respect for Human Rights During a Trump Presidency, Tricia Olsen, January 10, 2017.
- After Aleppo, Don’t Forget These Conflicts in 2017, Marie Berry and Hollie Nyseth Brehm, January 3, 2017.
- Private Security for the President: What Could Go Wrong?, Deborah Avant, December 27, 2016.
- The Diversification of Militant Violence, Evan Perkoski and Philip Potter, December 13, 2016.
- America’s Reintegration Election, Oliver Kaplan, December 6, 2016.
- Trump and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective, Cullen Hendrix, November 29, 2016.
- Understanding the “Alternative for Germany”: Origins, Aims, and Consequences, Rachel Epstein and Donald Abenheim, November 22, 2016.
- How Can We Know When Popular Movements Are Winning? Look to These Four Trends, Erica Chenoweth, November 15, 2016.
- Violence Against Women in Politics, Marie Berry, November 8, 2016.
- “Strength” and the Civil-Military Language Gap, Kyleanne Hunter, November 1, 2016.
- Why Do Peaceful Protests “Turn Violent”?, Jonathan Pinckney, October 25, 2016.
- US Public Support for Drones: Separating Fact from Fiction, Julia M. Macdonald and Jacquelyn Schneider, October 18, 2016.
- Rough Patches on the Silk Road? The Geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative, Cullen Hendrix, October 4, 2016.
- “Catch Your Thief”: From Vigilantism to Vigilance in Lima’s Southern Cone, Steven T. Zech, September 27, 2016.
- Power Politics Meets Personal Persuasion: The Role of the Next UN Secretary General, Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal and Devin Finn, September 20, 2016.
- Why NATO Enlargement Was a Good Idea, Rachel Epstein, September 13, 2016.
- Evidence-Based Policy Meets the Politics of Terrorism, Erica Chenoweth, September 6, 2016.
- “Social Cohesion” in Deeply Divided Societies: Five Findings for Peacebuilding, Timothy D. Sisk, August 30, 2016.
- Using IR Theory for Policy Prediction, Deborah Avant, August 23, 2016.
- Tortoise Politics in the Time of the Hare: Long-Run Solutions to Social Conflict in Latin America, Steven T. Zech, August 16, 2016.
- Revisiting Rebellion: Why Women Participate in Armed Conflict, Alexis Henshaw, August 2, 2016.
- Civilian Protection by Fiat, Oliver Kaplan, July 26, 2016.
- Shit Happens: When Equilibrium Theories Meet Non-Equilibrium Outcomes, Cullen Hendrix, July 19, 2016.
- Legacy of Violence and Peru’s Politics: Activism Against Authoritarianism, Devin Finn, July 12, 2016.
- Brexit, the Rise of Populist Nationalism, and the Future of Europe, Martin Rhodes, July 5, 2016.
- Protest, Counterprotest, and the Political Ineffectiveness of Chaos, Erica Chenoweth, June 28, 2016.
- Political Violence Before and After Brexit, Erica Chenoweth, June 21, 2016.
- Bending (False) Binaries: A Sociological Plea for Deconstruction, Marie Berry, June 14, 2016.
- Stop Calling Trump a Fascist, Deborah Avant, June 7, 2016.
- La Mano Dura: Lessons from El Salvador’s Security Sector Reform, Gaëlle Rivard Piché, May 31, 2016.
- Sport, Nationalism, and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games: ‘War Minus the Shooting’?, Timothy D. Sisk, May 24, 2016.
- Bridging the Academic-Policymaker Gap in Chile: A Conversation with Foreign Minister Heraldo Munoz, Oliver Kaplan, May 10, 2016.
- Symposium: Oil and International Politics, Cullen Hendrix, May 3, 2016.
- The Underpinnings of Rebel Governance in the Eastern DRC, Carla Suarez, April 26, 2016.
- Did the Vatican Just Throw Out Its Just War Doctrine?, Erica Chenoweth, April 19, 2016.
- Civil Society and Trajectories of Violence: A Summary of Emerging Research, Pauline Moore and Cassy Dorff, April 12, 2016.
- The Politics of Naming and the Genocide Debate, Marie Berry, April 5, 2016.
- Beyond ‘Methodological Nationalism’ in Global Security Studies, Fiona B. Adamson, March 29, 2016.
- Send in the Clowns: Opposing Anti-Migrant Citizen Patrols in Finland, Steven T. Zech, March 22, 2016.
- Ukraine: Frozen Peace, Rising Tensions, Multilateral Mediation, Tim Sisk, March 15, 2016.
- Assessing Homegrown Terror: Threats versus (Mis)Perceptions, Matthew Klick, March 7, 2016.
- Modeling Piracy: A Bridge Between the Academic and Policy Communities, Andrew Scott, March 1, 2016.
- Why Engagement Can’t Wait—Walt on Tenure and Bridging the Gap, Cullen Hendrix, February 23, 2016.
- Broadening the Conversation: From Research Transparency to a Politics of Knowledge Building, Devin Finn, February 16, 2016.
- Fashioning a Response to Terror: Action versus Overreaction, Rachel Epstein, February 9, 2016.
- Interpreting the Migration Crisis: A Symposium, Cassy Dorff, Faten Ghosn, Alex Braithwaite, and Andrew Linke, February 2, 2016.
- Seeing Flight as a Non-violent Option: One Way to Change the Discourse about the World’s 60 Million Refugees, Erica Chenoweth, January 26, 2016.
- The Migration-Gender-Insecurity Nexus, Marie Berry, January 19, 2016.
- A Role for the Warrior-Scholar?, Sarah Bakhtiari, January 12, 2016.
- On the (In)Sufficiency of Winning in Ground Combat, Celestino Perez, Jr., January 5, 2016.
- Fedex and the “Ghost Gunner,” Steven T. Zech, December 29, 2015.
- Why the Islamic State is so Bad at Being a State, Megan Stewart, December 22, 2015.
- A Woman Did That? Thoughts on Women Perpetrators of Violence, Trishna Rana and Marie Berry, December 17, 2015.
- Mapping the Network Effects of a Militarized Policy in Mexico, Lee Cotton and Cassy Dorff, December 8, 2015.
- Academics are Policy Troubleshooters, Oliver Kaplan, December 1, 2015.
- Does Emergency Food Assistance Prolong Conflict?, Cullen Hendrix, November 24, 2015.
- Despite the Paris Attacks, Europe’s Refugee Crisis is an Opportunity to Confront the Past, Rachel Epstein, November 17, 2015.
- Is Bombing a Civilian Airliner a Game-Changer for the Islamic State?, Erica Chenoweth, November 10, 2015.
- Relevant for Whom? The Multiplicity of Policy Audiences, Deborah Avant, November 3, 2015.
- From Protection to Predation Part I: When Self-Defense Forces “Go Bad,” Steven T. Zech, October 27, 2015.
- Combatting Corruption and Violence: A Struggle for Accountability on Two Fronts, Devin Finn, October 20, 2015.
- Bridging the Metonymic Gap: In Practice Rather Than in Parlance, Cassy Dorff, October 13, 2015.
- Of Methodology and Men, Kyleanne Hunter, October 6, 2015.
- Colombia: Never Again?, Oliver Kaplan, September 29, 2015.
- The Problem with the Problem of Bridging the Gap, Cullen Hendrix, September 22, 2015.
- Russia, Not Neo-Fascists, Poses the Main Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine, Steven Pifer, September 15, 2015.
- Practical Compassion in the Age of Crisis, Erica Chenoweth, September 7, 2015.
- Soldiers in Dark Times: Military Education, Ethics, and Political Science, Celestino Perez, Jr., September 1, 2015.
- Art, Conflict, and Social Change in Peru, Steven T. Zech, August 25, 2015.
- Interview: A Local Peacebuilder’s Take on the FARC Peace Talks, Oliver Kaplan, August 18, 2015.
- Researching in Risky Regions: Advice from Women Writers, Cassy Dorff, August 11, 2015.
- Guatemala Calling: Lynchings and the Politics of Inequality, Matthew Klick, August 4, 2015.
- Nonviolence Means Less Abuse, Oliver Kaplan, July 28, 2015.
- Does Democracy Constrain Rulers or Pacify Dissidents?, Cullen Hendrix, July 21, 2015.
- Putin, Propaganda, and the Path to Peace in Ukraine, Rudra Sil, July 14, 2015.
- How Can States and Non-State Actors Respond to Authoritarian Resurgence?, Erica Chenoweth, July 7, 2015.
- Potential for the Micro Dynamics of Peace, Deborah Avant, June 30, 2015.
- Autonomous Security Provision in Peru, Steven T. Zech, June 23, 2015.
- Unsilencing Pakistan: A Symposium on Nonviolent Activism Against Violence, Devin Finn, June 16, 2015.
- Why Children Matter in Armed Conflict, Cassy Dorff, June 9, 2015.
- Natural Disaster & Peacebuilding in Post-War Nepal: Can Recovery Further Reconciliation?, Timothy D. Sisk and Subindra Bogati, June 2, 2015.
- Civilian Nonviolent Resistance to ISIS, Oliver Kaplan, May 26, 2015.
- Extractive Industries in Violent Contexts: A Conversation with Luke Danielson, Cullen Hendrix, May 19, 2015.
- A Symposium on the Crisis in Ukraine, Rachel Epstein, May 12, 2015.
- The “Resister’s Toolkit”, Erica Chenoweth, May 5, 2015.
- Gap Half Full? A Dialogue on Bridging the Academic-Policy Divide, Deborah Avant, April 28, 2015.
- Social Movements Across Borders: Caravana 43’s Visit to the United States, Cassy Dorff, April 21, 2015.
- Where is the Muslim Gandhi?, Cullen Hendrix, April 14, 2015.
- Virtual Vigilantes: “Anonymous” Cyber-Attacks Against the Islamic State, Steven T. Zech, April 7, 2015.
- Want to Eradicate Poverty in the 21st Century? Pursue Peace, Timothy D. Sisk, March 31, 2015.
- The Power of Die-in Protests, Oliver Kaplan, March 24, 2015.
- Nonviolent Mobilization Against State Impunity Through Forensic Anthropology, Devin Finn, March 17, 2015.
- Develop Non-Military Options to Empower Communities Against Violent Extremist and Its Drivers, Maria J. Stephan, March 10, 2015.
- Denver Dialogues: Encouraging Conversation Among Academics and Policymakers, Deborah Avant, March 3, 2015.
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