Peace Enforcement and the Geography of Violence Against Civilians
Guest post by Jay Benson. UN peacekeeping is facing significant challenges. The peacekeeping budget has taken significant cuts,…
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Survival is Not Enough: Women Insist on Change in South Sudan
By Ariel Zarate and Marie Berry. Early in 2016, Susan, a mother of two in her early 20s,…
How Civil Wars End
By Lise M. Howard, Associate Professor of Government and Alexandra Stark, Ph.D. Candidate, both in the Department of…
Prestige, Dignity, and Job Security: How Army Integration Promotes Peace
By Julia Strasheim and Subindra Bogati After civil war, policies that deal with former rebel combatants often envision to…
Prospects for Peace in South Sudan
By Patrick Pierson. Late last week, US Deputy Ambassador Michele Sison stood before the UN Security Council and…
The Global Spread of Demands for Self-Rule
Guest post by Katherine Sawyer and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham. Although the European Union and United Nations were once…
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…
Protect the People to Protect the Peace
By Oliver Kaplan, Emma Dunn, and Natalie Southwick for Denver Dialogues. On April 27th, Diego Fernando Rodríguez, a…
Local Problems, Local Solutions: Domestic Human Rights Institutions and Torture
Guest post by Ryan M. Welch. Over the last 15 years, the US government’s relationship with torture has…