Political Violence Before and After Brexit
By Erica Chenoweth for Denver Dialogues. On Thursday, June 15, Jo Cox, a rising star in the British…
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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…
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…
Lessons in Failure: Libya Five Years Later
By Danielle L. Lupton. The 2011 NATO-led intervention in Libya was initially hailed as a success. The record…
How Patterns of Territorial Control Explain Mass Killings in Syria and Iraq (and in Bosnia)
Guest post by Jessica Di Salvatore. On January 16th, the Islamic State abducted 400 civilians and killed dozens after…