Conflict & Conflict Resolution

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New College of Florida students and supporters protest

AP/Rebecca Blackwell

Newspaper Article - Harvard Crimson

Harvard Kennedy School Research Shows Youth Participation in Major Protests Increases Likelihood of Success

    Author:
  • Asher J. Montgomery
| Mar. 20, 2023

Major nonviolent protests with higher levels of youth participation are more likely to be successful, according to a study by the United States Institute of Peace in collaboration with Harvard Kennedy School professor Erica Chenoweth and lecturer Zoe Marks.

An MQ-9 Reaper flies a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range, July 15, 2019. MQ-9 aircrew provide dominant, persistent attack and reconnaissance for comabtant commanders and coalition partners across the globe. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class William Rio Rosado)

af.mil (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class William Rio Rosado)

Analysis & Opinions - The National Interest

History Shows How Russia’s U.S. Reaper Drone Shootdown Ends

| Mar. 18, 2023

The facts about the downing of the U.S. Reaper drone are still emerging, and many relevant specifics are yet to become public, but as we attempt to get our bearings it is worth beginning with applied history. Applied historians ask: have we ever seen anything like this before?

a cameraman films Aramco's oil processing facility after the recent Sept. 14 attack

AP/Amr Nabil, File

Analysis & Opinions - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Saudi-Iranian Agreement is a Positive Development, but Not a Game-changer

| Mar. 16, 2023

Daniel Sobelman argues that the Middle East is today characterized by a deep geopolitical competition over the region's political order and orientation. This reality is the result of the failure, over the past two and a half decades or so, to establish a Western-oriented regional order on the one hand, and the rise of a regional strategic camp seeking to introduce an anti-Western order, whose core values are "resistance" to U.S. influence and the rejection of Israel's existence, on the other hand.

People inspect the wreckage of buildings that were damaged by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022.

AP Photo/Hani Mohammed

Analysis & Opinions - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Significance of the Iran-Saudi Arabia Agreement Brokered by China

Belfer Center experts on the U.S.-China relationship and Middle East issues shared thoughts on the significance of the unexpected Iran-Saudi Arabia agreement brokered by China. 

a Tigrayan woman who says she was gang raped by Amhara fighters, speaks to surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee

AP/Nariman El-Mofty, File

Analysis & Opinions - United States Institute of Peace

Going Beyond Accountability to Deter Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

| Mar. 14, 2023

Dara Kay Cohen explains why prosecutions are important, but not as the main policy lever for deterrence. A concerted, long-term, and multi-pronged effort is needed to address the root causes of conflict-related sexual violence.

Ukrainian servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Iron Brigde take part in an exercise in the Kharkiv area, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, the day before the one year mark since the war began

AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda

Analysis & Opinions - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

What the Ukraine War Has Revealed About the Indispensability of Multilateral Governance

| Feb. 23, 2023

The war itself has exposed the current limitations of the United Nations system, especially when facing mighty Security Council member-states with intractable political grievances.

Paper - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

SVAC Explainer: Wartime Sexual Violence in Ukraine, 2014-2021

| February 2023

Using insights from the Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) dataset, this policy brief outlines key trends in the use of sexual violence in Russia’s war against Ukraine between 2014 and 2021, describing the reported perpetrators, where it occurred, and what forms it took.