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Moderates of the World, Unite!
Guest post by Lindsay Heger and Roberta Spivak Image via Buzzfeed. When they released their short “film”, the filmmakers behind “The Innocence of Muslims” scored a victory not only for themselves, but...
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Friday Puzzler: Why Take Credit for Shooting a Girl?
Image via the official Malala Yousafzai Facebook page. By Barbara F. Walter There are two blatant puzzles associated with the shooting of 14 year old Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban in Pakistan...
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Friday Puzzler: Why Take Credit for Shooting a Girl?, Answered
By Barbara F. Walter In her book, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, Jessica Stern interviews a jihadist studying at a madrassah in Lahore, Pakistan. Stern asked him what the...
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How a US Election Undermined Global Health
By Will H. Moore An Afghan boy receives polio vaccination. Image by Canadian International Development Agency/Sharif Azami, via Flickr. American President Barrack Obama will be inaugurated for a second...
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Friday Puzzler: Why Support the Taliban?
By Barbara F. Walter 2005 portrait of a woman in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. UN photo by Evan Schneider. Madiha Afzal, an economist at the University of Maryland, has conducted a fascinating public opinion...
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Renewed Violence in Pakistan
By Erica Chenoweth Last night, the Pakistani Taliban (otherwise known as Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP) allegedly staged a bloody attack on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. Shahidullah...
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The Pakistan Army’s Facebook War
By Paul Staniland A soldier from the 67th Medical Battalion of the Pakistan Army salutes. Via wikimedia. Since June 15, the Pakistan Army has been waging Operation Zarb-e-Azb. This military offensive...
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Nonviolent Conflicts in 2014 You May Have Missed Because They Were Not Violent
By Erica Chenoweth Protesters in Caracas, Venezuela. From flickr account andreasAzp. Last week, Steven Pinker and Andy Mack wrote an article reassuring Slate readers that the world is not falling...
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Political Violence and Humanitarian Technology
Guest post by Katja Lindskov Jacobsen Refugees wait in line for help from UNHCR staff in South Sudan. By DFID. Can humanitarian uses of new digital technologies always be expected to have benevolent...
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Unsilencing Pakistan: A Symposium on Nonviolent Activism Against Violence
By Devin Finn for Denver Dialogues Protestors chanting slogans against Pervez Musharraf, November 7, 2007. By Ejaz Asi. Today marks the six-month anniversary of the massacre of 152 Pakistanis–133 of...
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Putin, Propaganda, and the Path to Peace in Ukraine
By Rudra Sil for Denver Dialogues Supporters of far-right groups Svoboda and Right-Sector march in Kiev on January 1, 2015 to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera. By All-Ukrainian Union. The May 2015...
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What Do We Know, and Need to Know, About Successful Counterinsurgency?
Guest post by Eli Berman and Aila M. Matanock American soldiers perform a walking patrol in Baghdad. By Lachica Photo. Imagine a counterinsurgency challenge: government forces (like the Iraqi Army)...
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The Biggest Threat to the Middle East Isn’t ISIL. It’s Civil Wars.
By Barbara F. Walter Syrian refugees in Lebanon. By ICRC. The greatest threat to American interests in the Middle East doesn’t come from ISIL or al Qaeda. It comes from the civil wars in Yemen, Libya,...
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How Can We Keep Aid Workers Safe?
Guest post by Larissa Fast A UNHCR aid worker delivering supplies in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. By United Nations photo. Today is World Humanitarian Day, a day to remember humanitarian...
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Religious Peace Activism: How the Daily Work of Local Religious Institutions...
Guest post by Johannes Vüllers, Alexander De Juan and Jan H. Pierskalla South Sudanese Christians celebrate Christmas mass at El Fasher church in North Darfur. United Nations Photo by Olivier Chassot....
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The Challenges of American NGOs Abroad
By Sarah Bush Lights from the Oval Office are seen from the snow-covered South Grounds of the White House. By The White House. It isn’t easy being an American non-governmental organization (NGO) abroad...
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From the Battlefield to Ballot Boxes: How Effective is the United Nations’...
Guest post by Janina I. Steinert and Sonja Grimm A helicopter from the United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI) takes off from Abidjan carrying provisional voter lists for the Ivorian...
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A Woman Did That? Thoughts on Women Perpetrators of Violence
by Trishna Rana and Marie Berry for Denver Dialogues Kurdish Peshmerga women. By Jan Sefti. When news of another mass shooting, this time in San Bernardino, California, began trickling into social...
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Sleeper Agents or Big Yawn? Waiting for Returned Foreign Fighters
Guest post by David Malet. US Secretary of State John Kerry walks with French President Francois Hollande following a bilateral meeting in the Elysees Palace. Photo by U.S. Department of State. Western...
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Seeing Flight as a Non-violent Option: One Way to Change the Discourse about...
By Erica Chenoweth and Hakim Young for Denver Dialogues In Brussels, more than 1,200 people protest against Europe’s unwillingness to do more about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, April 23rd,...
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