When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law, his action honored a decades-long struggle by grassroots…
What are the consequences of women dying in combat? We study how women fighting on the frontlines of the military affects public attitudes…
This paper was prepared for an interdisciplinary conference on Gefährliche Forschung? (Dangerous Science?) held at the University of…
According to research conducted by Erica Chenoweth and the Crowd Sourcing Consortium, 15 million to 26 million people in the U.S. have…
Quantitative data about political violence are frequently based on “desk research,” data derived from secondary sources that do not require…
The Black Lives Matter protests have been shaking up not just conversations about policing, but also almost every industry — including…
The Charter of the Commission on Unalienable Rights includes the objective of proposing “reforms of human rights discourse where it has…
When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rights—and far less often the language…
“I want to be remembered as a woman … who dared to be a catalyst of change.”
- Shirley Chisholm
In 1972, Shirley Chisholm made history as…