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Sierra Leone

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The International Community, Coups, and Electoral ‘Attaboys

  • February 9, 2022
Guest post by Jonathan Powell and Salah Ben Hammou Coups in Africa have reached crisis proportions. Since Niger’s…
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Measles, Ukraine, and Civil War: The Missing Links

  • July 22, 2019
By Tanisha M. Fazal & Logan Stundal. In 2018, the global measles outbreak claimed 109,000 lives and sickened…
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Rwanda’s Protection Lessons for Peacekeeping

  • April 10, 2019
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues. The 25th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide this week…
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Children for Hire

  • February 20, 2019
Guest post by Christopher Faulkner. Last week marked the 19th anniversary of the Optional Protocol to the Convention…
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What We Can Learn from Looking at Private Security Across Time and Space

  • February 19, 2019
By Deborah Avant and Kara Kingma Neu for Denver Dialogues. We know a lot about private security from…
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Conflict and Contagions: Disease Burden and Civil War

  • October 9, 2018
Cullen S. Hendrix for Denver Dialogues.  The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing what is now the seventh…
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Conflict, Generations, and Long-term Change in Civil-Military Relations

  • July 19, 2017
Guest post by Peter B. White. While the number of coups and military regimes has declined since the…
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Making Sense of Recent Mutinies in Côte d’Ivoire

  • June 9, 2017
Guest post by Rebecca Schiel and Christopher Faulkner. On May 12th, 2017, disgruntled soldiers launched a mutiny in…
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The Ethics of Fieldwork Preparedness

  • June 5, 2017
Guest post by Milli Lake and Sarah E. Parkinson. Many political scientists conduct research in fragile states or…
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Fish Wars: How Fishing Can Start – and Stop – Conflict

  • March 17, 2017
Guest post by Sarah Glaser.  On February 18, the US sent naval ships to the South China Seas,…
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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 at a Glance
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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.