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The Widening Lens

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Genderfuck, norms and achieving progressive social change

The 2014 edition of Genderfuck is only two days away. Genderfuck is a unique tradition at Swarthmore, because not only is it…

April 24, 2014
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Is FIFA a mass killer?

Qatar’s successful bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup has all the makings of a great underdog story.  A small country from…

April 10, 2014
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Proaction and complexity: a sincere hope for the (perhaps distant) future

What do civilians do to survive conflict?  This sounds like a fairly straightforward question, but it’s not.  Until very recently, scholars of…

March 27, 2014
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Irregular conflict and cartel dynamics in “The Wire”

“The Wire,” praised as the best TV series of all time, has inspired its fair share of academic analysis. Multiple universities have…

March 6, 2014
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The future of atrocity prevention and response

The next twenty years will be an exciting time for the concept of early warning. I believe the same applies to atrocity…

February 20, 2014
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Robert George will not create community

The build-up to the Robert George and Cornel West-led collection has been dominated by discussion of George’s association with the National Organization…

February 6, 2014
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The problem with following mass atrocities

I’m probably biased, but when I think about the worst suffering humans can endure, it’s hard to think any further than mass…

January 23, 2014
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From genocide to mass atrocities

In 1943, Polish resistance member Jan Karski secured a meeting with American Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Karski was desperate to find…

November 21, 2013
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Understanding the Democratic Republic of the Congo

In his article “The Price of Precious,” which recently appeared in National Geographic’s October issue, Jeffrey Gettleman attempts to tell the story…

October 24, 2013
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Reconciling theories of natural violence

Stanley Milgram, Christopher Browning, Dave Grossman and Randall Collins have all provided important contributions to the academic debate on the attitudes of…

October 3, 2013
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