The Big Lesson of Peacekeeping in Sudan: Beware of Host-Country Obstruction
By Allard Duursma Every student that takes a class on United Nations (UN) peace operations will be told…
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African Mediators Outperform Their Non-African Counterparts—Here’s Why
By Allard Duursma In 2013, during the 50th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity (now known as…
Push-pull migration models have long dominated migration research. Here’s why that’s only half the story.
Guest post by Justin Schon. Whether it is people fleeing the devastation of natural disasters like Hurricanes Katrina,…
Anarchy is Scary: New Evidence from Somalia
Guest post by Jesse Driscoll. “Look, in Somalia, the cell phone system works…and it’s the only thing, maybe,…
African Perspectives on Peacebuilding
By Aaron Stanley for Denver Dialogues. Perspective is everything. If I were visiting New York City and wanted…
The Organization of Rebellion: New Research Program on Rebel Governance and Legitimacy
By Cyanne E. Loyle, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, and Joe Young. Scholars and policymakers have a fairly good sense…
When Fighting Breaks Out – Explaining Subnational Variation in Civil War Onset
Guest post by Ore Koren. Civil war onset is often correctly associated with weak states, such as Afghanistan.…
Searching for Silver Linings from 2017
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Conflict scholarship can be a grim work, and 2017 provided bushels of…
Why Civil Wars have Gotten Longer, Bloodier, and More Numerous
By Barbara F. Walter. A series of alarming trends are converging in the world of civil wars. Since…
The Future of War is in Cities – the Study of War Should Follow Suit
By Margarita Konaev for Denver Dialogues. On March 17th, a US airstrike killed nearly 300 people in the…