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The ethical risks inherent in student research on political violence that involve human participants are myriad. Undergraduate and master’s students face constraints that are…
Vol. 24, Pages 193-211
This article reviews the remarkable growth in empirical literature in political science on wartime sexual violence against civilians, including rape, sexual slavery, forced…
Undergraduate and master’s students frequently conduct independent human subjects research on topics related to political violence and human rights – often, but not always, in the…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching – lethal, extralegal group violence to punish…
Quantitative data about political violence are frequently based on “desk research,” data derived from secondary sources that do not require direct contact between researchers and…
Dara Key Cohen's Op-Ed published in the New York Times.
"The Trump transition team asked the State Department last week to submit details of programs and jobs that focus on…
Last year, at a global conference on sexual violence during war, many speakers agreed that the best way to deter such crimes was prosecution, and they called for more of it. But…