Measles, Ukraine, and Civil War: The Missing Links
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
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues. The 25th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide this week…
Children for Hire
Guest post by Christopher Faulkner. Last week marked the 19th anniversary of the Optional Protocol to the Convention…
What We Can Learn from Looking at Private Security Across Time and Space
By Deborah Avant and Kara Kingma Neu for Denver Dialogues. We know a lot about private security from…
Conflict and Contagions: Disease Burden and Civil War
Cullen S. Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing what is now the seventh…
Conflict, Generations, and Long-term Change in Civil-Military Relations
Guest post by Peter B. White. While the number of coups and military regimes has declined since the…
Making Sense of Recent Mutinies in Côte d’Ivoire
Guest post by Rebecca Schiel and Christopher Faulkner. On May 12th, 2017, disgruntled soldiers launched a mutiny in…
The Ethics of Fieldwork Preparedness
Guest post by Milli Lake and Sarah E. Parkinson. Many political scientists conduct research in fragile states or…
Fish Wars: How Fishing Can Start – and Stop – Conflict
Guest post by Sarah Glaser. On February 18, the US sent naval ships to the South China Seas,…
WANTED: UN Peacekeepers for Mali
By Marina Henke. In early June UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon made an urgent plea to increase the…