This paper reviews current practices and common challenges in the measurement of the
causes, functioning, and consequences of violent conflict at the micro-level. We review …

Through European colonialisms spanning five centuries, coloniality–as intersectional
stratification and violence directed against 'other worlds'–has been central to the making of …

More than half of the 815 million undernourished people in the world live in countries
struggling with conflict, violence and fragility. Conflict can impact food security conditions by …

This article reflects on the importance of linking micro and macro levels of analysis in order
to advance our current understanding of civil wars and political violence processes and …

This paper revisits the age-old question of how economic inequalities may affect the
emergence of political violence. Recent findings from three distinct bodies of literature …

This article provides an explanation for the significant variation in coups in autocracies. The
existing theoretical literature focuses on the strategies that leaders use to thwart mass …

A wealth of research in comparative politics and international relations examines how the
military intervenes in politics via coups. We shift attention to broader forms of military …

Do ethnic riots affect prosocial behavior? A common view among scholars of ethnic violence
is that riots increase cooperation within the warring groups, while cooperation across groups …

We analyze the effects of the 2011 Egyptian protests on the relative labor market conditions
of women using panel data from the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS). Using …

Social scientists treat stone-throwing as a non-violent act or argue that protest movements
may be primarily non-violent despite stone-throwing. However, this study of an iconic …