In this Presidential Address, I lay out three research streams in which my findings were valid when published, but which may have been time…
From 7 October 2023 to 7 June 2024, the Crowd Counting Consortium recorded nearly 12,400 pro-Palestine protests and over 2,000 pro-Israel…
In the years since the onset of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement—and especially since the Ferguson uprising—scholars have tried to…
Civil resistance is a form of struggle in which unarmed civilians mobilize using a series of coordinated methods like protest, non-…
Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in nonviolent resistance—a method of conflict in which unarmed people…
Prosecutions are important, but not as the main policy lever for deterrence.
Over the past two years, and in collaboration with Dr. Erica Chenoweth and Dr. Zoe Marks of Harvard University, USIP has been collecting…
Today, more people than ever before are conscious of a simple fact: fundamental changes in the global system are urgently required to keep…
Nonviolent action (NVA) campaigns are more frequent now than ever before, yet we know comparatively little about how the demographic…
Collective vigilantism, group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community, is both global and common in the contemporary world. It…