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Africa

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COVID-19, Food Access, and Social Upheaval

  • July 15, 2020
Guest post by Ida Rudolfsen According to the World Food Program’s (WFP) latest report, the COVID-19 pandemic will…
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African Perspectives on Peacebuilding

  • July 24, 2018
By Aaron Stanley for Denver Dialogues. Perspective is everything. If I were visiting New York City and wanted…
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The Sophomore Curse: Sampling Bias and the Future of Climate-Conflict Research

  • March 6, 2018
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. Recently, Nature Climate Change published a study demonstrating significant sampling bias in…
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Getting the Youth Bulge Wrong

  • February 15, 2018
By Aaron Stanley Africa’s population is growing and quickly. Even those who are generally unaware of happenings on…
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Trump and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective

  • November 29, 2016
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. Whether appeals to white identity and white resentment propelled Donald Trump –…
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Terrorism’s Media-Politics Complex

  • August 12, 2016
Guest post by Brian Forst.  The massacre of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice was tragic enough. No…
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Fashioning a Response to Terror: Action versus Overreaction

  • February 9, 2016
By Rachel A. Epstein for Denver Dialogues A Symposium with Deborah Avant, Sarah Glaser and Martin Rhodes In…
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Does Democracy Constrain Rulers or Pacify Dissidents?

  • July 21, 2015
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues After two decades of slow but consistent progress toward more democratic governance,…
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Why Such Sparse Coverage of Africa’s Wars?

  • December 20, 2013
By Barbara F. Walter Over the past two+ years, the war in Syria has dominated policy debates and newspaper…
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The Decline of Violence in Africa

  • March 7, 2013
By David E. Cunningham This week’s (March 2nd-8th) issue of The Economist has a 14-page special feature on…
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Political Violence @ A Glance is an award-winning online magazine directed by Erica Chenoweth, Christian Davenport, Barbara F. Walter, and Joe Young, that answers questions on the most pressing problems related to violence and protest in the world’s conflict zones. Our goal is to use rigorous research, and simple, straight-forward analysis, to improve policies and practices in ways that help reduce conflict and build lasting peace.

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    • January 18, 2021
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    • August 5, 2020
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Political Violence @ a Glance is an online magazine directed by Erica Chenoweth, Christian Davenport, Barbara Walter and Joe Young, that answers questions on the most pressing problems related to violence and protest in the world’s conflict zones. Political Violence @ A Glance is supported by the UC Institute of Global Conflict & Cooperation, a University of California think tank specializing in research, training, and policy engagement around issues related to international security, economic development, political violence and its antecedents, and peace building.