The Politics of Closing Refugee Camps
Guest post by Beth Elise Whitaker. On May 6, 2016, the Government of Kenya announced plans to close…
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Political Violence Before and After Brexit
By Erica Chenoweth for Denver Dialogues. On Thursday, June 15, Jo Cox, a rising star in the British…
WANTED: UN Peacekeepers for Mali
By Marina Henke. In early June UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon made an urgent plea to increase the…
Why Orlando Happened and How to Prevent Future Attacks
By Joe Young. On September 11, 2001, I watched live, like the rest of the world, as planes flew…
Bending (False) Binaries: A Sociological Plea for Deconstruction
By Marie Berry. “The moral cogency of a human rights narrative is compelling but partial: it is incomplete…
Stop Calling Trump a Fascist
By Deborah Avant for Denver Dialogues. We should stop calling Donald Trump a “fascist” (we should also stop…
Nuclear Modernization and Nuclear Disarmament
Guest post by Scott Wisor. President Barack Obama has become the first sitting American President to visit Hiroshima,…
Peace by Assassination?
Guest post by Yelena Biberman. What is to be done when the leader of a powerful insurgent organization is…
What An Afghan Warlord-Turned Vice President Tells Us About Military Intervention and State Building
Guest post by Romain Malejacq. Last month, American officials denied Afghan warlord-turned Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum a…
Communal Violence and the Demobilization of Protest Campaigns
Guest post by Tijen Demirel-Pegg. The killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York…