…the Threats and What We Can Do About Them” aims to: develop an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers and stakeholders working on understanding and addressing rising polarization and political violence…

The decision to go to war is often framed as a cost-benefit analysis. But what if we are getting the costs systematically wrong? A positive trend—improvements in military medicine that…

…have focused on the international dimension of the civil war, viewing it as a direct by-product of rivalry between the Soviet and Western camps. This research has therefore omitted to…

…of intense combat and times of relative quiet, violated international conventions observed in other campaigns. Not all of these examples of extreme violence can be linked to orders, and some…

…of 2018 drew international attention to increasing authoritarianism in the country. This dataset tracks incidents of lethal violence in Central America against a broad array of public figures, all of…

…to the detriment of citizens. While these events, practices, and tendencies can shape attitudes, a prominent theory in international studies known as constructivism teaches us that the way we view…

…and Legitimacy Program at Besa Global and professor of the practice of international negotiation and conflict resolution at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Her current research focuses on how social,…

…relationship between Japanese imperialism and Chinese nation building, of which the Sino-Japanese War was the acme (a period that coincided exactly with the era of Japanese control over Taiwan). After…

…damage to those deemed the enemy. At the same time, resisting torture granted the revolutionaries who prepared for it a means to claim a measure of power, and drawing international…