Using Cell Phones to Prevent Violence
Technology-based programs, as simple as text message reporting, have been proven to aid in conflict monitoring and prevention.
Ethnic Minorities and Terrorism
The likelihood of terrorism increases when a country’s ethnic communities have close family ties in other countries (diaspora communities).
International Peacekeeping and Positive Peace
Peacekeepers with the ability to enforce peace agreements are better able to build norms of trust and cooperation compared to the absence of peacekeepers.
Manufacturing Dissent: Modernization and the Surge of Nonviolent Resistance
An increase in manufacturing increases the likelihood of nonviolent campaigns. As countries continue to modernize, social conflict manifests nonviolently.
Varying success of civil resistance in Colombia
National and local peace initiatives are mutually influential. The success of one increases the chances of success in the other.
Types of mediator leverage and the strength of peace agreements
Peace agreements mediated with credibility leverage last over twice as long compared to agreements without credibility leverage.
Sanctions as a Tool for Peace
Moderate sanctions lower the chance of war, but weak/overly destructive sanctions do the opposite. Strategic sanctions can lead to diplomatic negotiations.
Religious Freedom and the Reduction of Religious Terrorism
Repressing religious freedoms is twice as likely to cause terrorism than a country’s high poverty rate or population size.
Contagious Nonviolence
Countries are more likely to experience the onset of nonviolent campaigns when there is a greater amount of mobilization globally.
The true cost of human life and why it matters
Using sunk costs to justify an ongoing war does not work—the U.S. public doesn’t support the ‘Don’t Let Them Die in Vain’ argument.
Poverty: A contributing factor to civil war?
A country ranked at the bottom 10% on a global poverty scale is six times more likely to see violent civil conflict than a country at the top 10%.
