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Putting Ideas Behind Bars: Here’s Why It Doesn’t Work

  • January 5, 2023
Guest post by Christoph Dworschak and Christoph V. Steinert “We tried to bury them—we didn’t know they were…
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Revisiting the Emboldening Power of Nuclear Weapons

  • November 28, 2022
Guest post by Kyungwon Suh Do nuclear weapons make their possessors more aggressive? A series of high-profile aggressive…
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Sustaining the Fight for Women’s Rights in Iran as Repression Tightens

  • November 3, 2022
Guest post by Yu-Ping Chang and Ghashia Kiyani The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody…
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Civil Society Faces an Uphill Struggle to Defend Democracy

  • October 31, 2022
Guest post by Marianne Dahl, Sirianne Dahlum, Hanne Fjelde, and Ida Rudolfsen The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this…
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Five Questions About the Assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri

  • August 11, 2022
By Rebecca Best and guest contributors Debra Leiter and Simanti Lahiri Last weekend, a US drone dropped two…
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How Blowback by Armed Groups Is Turning Civil Wars into International Conflicts

  • April 28, 2022
By Peter Krause and guest contributor Nils Hägerdal The crescendo of missile and drone strikes into Saudi Arabia…
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Can Israel Remain Both Neutral and Part of the West?

  • March 29, 2022
PVG Viewpoint by Michael Barnett Israel is getting some unwanted attention because of its reluctance to outrightly condemn…
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From Manama to Baghdad and Kyiv: Limiting the Risk of Violent Intervention by Authoritarian Neighbors

  • March 14, 2022
Guest post by Erwin van Veen Much has been written over the past few years about the global…
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How Do Governments Decide Which Groups Are “Terrorist Organizations”?

  • February 7, 2022
By Brian J. Phillips and Mirna El Masri US Senator Ted Cruz recently called for Yemen’s Houthis to…
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Looking Back at 9/11

  • September 9, 2021
It’s been twenty years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Conventional wisdom holds that the tragic…
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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. Supported by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), 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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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.