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The Conflict Consortium 1st Annual Guide to Conflict, Violence and Peace programs in Political Science

Our 2nd Annual Guide is now available.

This document is Conflict Consortium’s inaugural effort at providing students who want to pursue a PhD at a US university in the fields of political conflict/violence (e.g., genocide, civil war, human rights, atrocity, terrorism and revolution) and peace (e.g., negotiation, non-violent direct action, social movements and cooperation) within political science information to help them focus in on graduate programs.  To try and generate useful information in answer to the topic, we identify departments we believe share at least two of the following mutually reinforcing strengths:
 
* A critical mass of researchers on the topic;[1]
* A workshop / speakers series on the topic;[2] and,
* Active data collection.[3]
 
To explain our logic, we feel that a critical mass of researchers is valuable to offer deep as well as diverse approaches on the subject of conflict/violence/peace, and to offer coverage (e.g., if any faculty move to a new university or go on leave classes could still be covered and research communities could be sustained).   We provide hyperlinks for all individuals that are full faculty; we have not included adjuncts and affiliates.  Now, just because we mention individual scholars does not mean that they are committed to continuing research on the relevant topic or that the departments necessarily make a coherent whole.  This relates to our next two areas of interest.  For example, a workshop or speaker series is deemed useful for it suggests a vibrant/interactive environment to learn within.  In future versions we will provide hyperlinks for all workshops and series.  Finally, active data collection provides not only a way to impart the methodology/creativity involved with data collection but it also provides researchers present at the same locale privileged access for developing publications.  In future versions we will provide hyperlinks for all data projects as well.

These are not the only criteria that might be of importance to someone and, indeed, we will likely add others in the future.  For the time being, however, we feel that these criteria provide a good starting point for a discussion about a healthy program for pursuing an education in the relevant topic area. We welcome input from faculty and graduate students about improving the guide going forward.
 
We apologize up front for missing information.  We did our best to diligently move through the different departments and discover what we can (if links were not live however then we did not provide them).  Hopefully one outcome from this effort is that departments will identify that people have an interest in this area and that they should do their best to make this easier to discover, perhaps moving from simply fields of study (i.e., International Relations, Comparative, American Politics, Theory and Methodology) toward areas of study (i.e., conflict, violence and peace as well as elections, authoritarianism, public opinion, etc).   Additionally, we hope that individual faculty will more prominently highlight this interest and not hide it within their vitaes or some other difficult to identify locale when trying to figure out what they do.  We will likely provide an evaluation of that next year.  We further hope that other disciplines (e.g., sociology, anthropology, psychology and history) will begin to put information together in a comparable manner
 
Enjoy
 
Christian Davenport (University of Michigan) & Will Moore (Arizona State University)
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[1]    To be clear, we identify that faculty claim to be interested in a particular topic.  We do not speak about the productivity of scholars in this area or the quality of the work that they produce.  Links have been provided to the individual faculty, however, to assist in this evaluation. 
[2]   These highlight ongoing research, and also serve as an institutional solution to the inevitable collective action challenges all communities of researchers face.
[3]   Active data collection provides useful hands on training opportunities as well as research and publishing opportunities.

​Department by Department Overview regarding Conflict, Violence & Peace (alphabetical order)

Arizona State University

Topics:
  • civil war; dissent; ethnic conflict; human rights violations/repression
Approaches:
  • experiments; ethnographic/field research; institutions, large N (cross-national)
People:
  • Hechter, Lake, Moore, Peskin, Siroky, Theis, Warner, Wright, Wood.
Programs:
  • Conflict & Human Rights Working Group, Nationalism and Ethno-Religious Dynamics Working Group, Center on the Future of War
Databases:
  • Ill Treatment & Torture (ITT), Political Terror Scale (PTS), Sub-National Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP), Women in Armed Rebellion Dataset (WARD)
 
Brown University

Topics:
  • war; civil war; revolutions; conflict psychology and norms; ethnic conflict; resources and illicit flows; human rights; pol economy of security
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); archival/qualitative; experiments; ethnographic/field research 
People:
  • Andreas; Blair; Branch; Colgan; McDermott; Miller; Tannenwald; Varshney
Programs:
  • Watson Institute Security Seminar Series
Databases:
  • Revolutions and Revolutionary Leaders Database 
  • WomanStats 
  • Varshney-Wilkinson Database on Hindu-Muslim Riots in India (1950-95)
  • National Violence Monitoring System (NVMS), Indonesia, 1998-2014 ​

Columbia University

Topics:
  • civil war; human rights violations; terrorism
Approaches:
  • experiments; large N (cross-national)
People:
  • Corstange, Fortna, Humphreys, Kasara, Putnam
Programs:
  • Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
Databases:
  • Terrorism in Civil War project.
 
Duke University

Topics:
  • civil war/insurgency; peace; terrorism; war
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling
People:
  • Beardsley, Balcells, de Marchi, Feaver, Grieco, Leventoglu, Maghraoui, Niou, Siegel, [Ward]
Programs:
  • [Wardlab]
Databases:
 
George Washington University

Topics:
  • human rights violations/repression, genocide, civilian targeting, war, civil war
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); archival
People: 
  • Steve Biddle, Alex Downes, Evgeny Finkel, Caitlin Talmadge, Harris Mylonas, Mike Miller, Yon Lupu
Programs
  • the Intrastate Conflict and Violence Workshop

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Topics:
  • civil war/insurgency; human rights violations; peace; policing
Approaches:
  • experiments; large N (cross-national)
People:
  • Bateson, Fotini, Lieberman, Nielsen, Peterson, Posen
Programs:
  • Poverty, Violence and Development Working Group
Databases:
 
​Michigan State University

Topics:
  • civil war; coups; low intensity violence; repression/human rights violation; terrorism
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); group
People:
  • Appel, Bodea, Colaresi, [Frantz], Sarkissian, Thomas
Programs:
  • Workshop on Conflict (WoC)
Databases:
  • Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions

Penn State University

Topics:
  • civil war; war; terrorism; assassination; human rights violations/repression; coups
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling
People:
  • Banaszak, Benett, Hatemi, Henderson, Iqbal, Lemke, Mukherjee, Palmer, Piazza, Wright, Zorn
Programs:

Databases:
  • Correlates of War; The Leadership-Security Ties project; Natural Resources and Armed Conflict Project

Princeton University

Topics:
  • civil war; ethnic conflict; human rights violations; protest; terrorism
Approaches:
  • experiments; large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling
People:
  • Aksoy, Bass, Beissinger, Carter, Dancygier, Gowa, Wantchekon, Wasow, Yashar,
Programs:
  • Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
Databases:
 
Stanford University

Topics:
  • civil war; ethnic conflict
Approaches:
  • experiments; large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; ethnographic/field research
People:
  • Blaydes, Fearon, Laitin, Magaloni, Weingast, Weinstein
Programs:
  • Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
Databases:
  • Civil War; Policing and Criminal Violence in Rio de Janeiro; Extortion in Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency; Dynamics of Violence in Mexico’s Drug War; Protest in an Authoritarian Regime
 
University of Arizona

Topics:
  • civil war; nonviolent civil resistance; terrorism; militarized disputes; conflict management; repression/human rights violation 
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); group-level; network analysis
People:
  • A. Braithwaite, J. Braithwaite, Ghosn, Milward, Ryckman, Volgy
Programs:
  • A&A ("Anomalous and Adversarial" groups) Workshop
Databases:
  • Foundations of Rebel Groups (FORG)
  • Refugee flows

University of California San Diego


Topics:
  • censorship; civil war; coercion; distributional conflicts; peace; rebellion; war
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; big data; archival
People:
  • Adida; Gartzke, Hafner-Burton, Lake, Roberts, Roeder, Schneider, Slantchev 
Programs:
  • Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
Databases:  
 
University of Chicago

Topics:
  • civil war; terrorism; social movements; domination; war; contentious politics
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; big data; archival
People:
  •  Albertus, Carson, Cohen, Mearsheimer, Pape, Poast, Slater, Staniland, Wedeen
Programs:
  • The Comparative subfield workshop commonly features projects of interest, Program on International Security Policy (PISP), Program on International Politics, Economics and Security (PIPES)
Databases:  

University of Georgia


Topics:
  • extremism; human rights violations/repression; protest
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); subnational
People:
  • Clay, Han, Hill, Mudde, Murdie
Programs:

Databases:
  • Cingranelli-Richards Database (CIRI); Sub-National Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP)
 
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

Topics:
  • war; social movements; cooperation; terrorism; happiness/life satisfaction; threat
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); formal/theoretical modeling
People:
  • Althaus, Merle, Chaudoin, Dai, Leff, Livny, [Mondak], Pahre, Vasquez, Winters, Wong
Programs:

Databases:

​University of Maryland


Topics:
  • civil war/insurgency; collective action; ethnic conflict; terrorism; war
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); group
People:
  • Allee, Birnir, Bond, Croco, K. Cunningham, D. Cunningham, Hadden, Huth, Kastner, [Lichbach], McCauley, Reed
Programs:
  • Center for International Development and Conflict Management, ICONS, [START Center]
Databases:
  • Minorities at Risk (MAR/All Minorities at Risk (AMAR), [ICB], [START]
 
University of Michigan

Topics:
  • civil war; coups; counter-insurgency; cyber conflict; electoral violence; ethnic conflict; interstate-intrastate conflict linkages human rights violations/repression; peace; protest; protest policing; revolution; sexual violence; terrorism; war
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); subnational; ethnographic/field research; experimental; formal/theoretical modeling
People:
  • Axelrod, Davenport, Dincecco, Fariss, Hassan, Koremenos, Min, Morrow, Nordas, Osgood, Tyson, Zhukov
Programs:
  • Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) & Workshop
Databases:
  • DyoRep: Dyadic Data on Repressive Action; Land Conflicts in Europe; Conventional Battles of Interstate War; Cyber Attacks; GenoDynamics: Rwandan Political Violence; Internal and external conflicts for 11 nations in Europe; The Kenyan Security Apparatus; Labor union, NGO, and Progressive Opposition to US Trade Agreements; The Northern Ireland Research Initiative (NIRI); Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict; Sexual Violence in the U.S.; Stalin's Terror; Subnational Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP); Syria
 
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Topics:
  • war; insurgency; terrorism; protest
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); formal/theoretical modeling; group
People:
  • Bapat, Crescenzi, Gent, Robertson, Sullivan
Programs: 
  • IR Research Seminar 
Databases:
  • Threat and Imposition of Sanctions Data

University of North Texas


Topics:
  • civil liberties; conflict management; human rights violation/repression; insurgency; international conflict; peace; ethnic conflict
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national)
People:
  • Breuning, DeMeritt, Enterline, Greig, Hensel, Ishiyama, King, Mason, Meernik
Programs:
  • Peace Studies Program; Castleberry Peace Institute
Databases:
  • Issue Correlates of War
 
University of Notre Dame

Topics:
  • civil war; genocide/human rights; peace; political violence
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling
People:
  • Daly, Fazal, Goertz, Javeline, Powell, Regan, Trejo, Verdeja
Programs:
  • Kellogg Institute, Kroc Institute
Databases:
  • Dyadic Peace Measure; Peace Accords Matrix
 
University of Pennsylvania

Topics:
  • civil war; ethnic conflict; protest; terrorism; war
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; leader(s)
People:
  • Gillion, Horowitz, Lustick, Mansfield; O’leary; Sambanis, Simmons; Stanton, Weisiger
Programs:
  • Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
Databases:
  • Why Leaders Fight; War time Causalties

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Topics:
  • civil war; genocide; peace; territory; nationalism; terrorism; war
Approaches:
  • large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; experiments; qualitative; institutions
People:
  • Kinsella, Kydd, Pevehouse, Renshon, Shelef, Straus, Weeks
Programs:
  • International Relations Colloquium; Experimental Politics Workshop
Databases:
  • COW IGO dataset; domestic politics of authoritarian regimes; homeland territorial claims

Yale University

Topics:
  • civil war; war; civilian victimization; counter-insurgency; ethnic conflict; guerilla war; mobilization
Approaches:
  • experiments; large N (cross-national)
People:
  • Baldwin, Dafoe, [Kalyvas], Lawrence, Lyall, [Monteiro], [Scott], Wilkinson, Wood
Programs:
  • Order, Conflict and Violence [Workshop]
Databases:
  • Indiscriminate Violence in Chechnya; Counter-Insurgency War



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