After Aleppo, Don’t Forget These Conflicts in 2017
By Marie E. Berry and Hollie Nyseth Brehm for Denver Dialogues. In December, as the former stronghold…
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Challenges of Measuring an Armed Group’s Lethality: Insights from the Mexican Drug War
Guest post by Omar García-Ponce and Andrés Lajous. A few months ago the New York Times published an…
Send in the Clowns: Opposing Anti-Migrant Citizen Patrols in Finland
By Steven T. Zech for Denver Dialogues State repression, armed conflict, and a variety of humanitarian crises have…
Mapping the Network Effects of a Militarized Policy in Mexico
Guest post by Lee Cotton and Cassy Dorff for Denver Dialogues. Overview: Drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs) have long been…
Combating Corruption and Violence: A Struggle for Accountability on Two Fronts
By Devin Finn for Denver Dialogues After years of fraud and deception, a president falls. The narrative of…
Tipping the Balance: The Role of Security Repertoires in Predicting Violence
Guest post by Ore Koren Does the presence of violent militias make civilian casualties more likely during conflict?…
Practical Compassion in the Age of Crisis
By Erica Chenoweth for Denver Dialogues The news from last week was bleak. Fleeing violence and chaos in the…
Researching in Risky Regions: Advice from Women Writers
By Cassy Dorff for Denver Dialogues It’s the close of summertime here in the American academic community. Perhaps…
State Power and the Visibility of Drug Violence
By Angélica Durán-Martínez “Headless bodies found in Acapulco”. “Nine corpses found hanging from a bridge”. “3 bodies with…
Why Children Matter in Armed Conflict
By Cassy Dorff for Denver Dialogues This blog post includes sensitive material on violence between young children. I…