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)
[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.
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)
[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
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Brown University
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Columbia University
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Duke University
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George Washington University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Michigan State University
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Penn State University
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Princeton University
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Stanford University
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University of Arizona
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University of California San Diego
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University of Chicago
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University of Georgia
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University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
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University of Maryland
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University of Michigan
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University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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University of North Texas
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University of Notre Dame
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University of Pennsylvania
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University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Yale University
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[ ] = near retirement, on leave, with dual appointment with another unit or with some administrative duty
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- civil war; dissent; ethnic conflict; human rights violations/repression
- experiments; ethnographic/field research; institutions, large N (cross-national)
- Conflict & Human Rights Working Group, Nationalism and Ethno-Religious Dynamics Working Group, Center on the Future of War
- Ill Treatment & Torture (ITT), Political Terror Scale (PTS), Sub-National Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP), Women in Armed Rebellion Dataset (WARD)
Brown University
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- war; civil war; revolutions; conflict psychology and norms; ethnic conflict; resources and illicit flows; human rights; pol economy of security
- large N (cross-national); archival/qualitative; experiments; ethnographic/field research
- Andreas; Blair; Branch; Colgan; McDermott; Miller; Tannenwald; Varshney
- Watson Institute Security Seminar Series
- 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
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- civil war; human rights violations; terrorism
- experiments; large N (cross-national)
- Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
- Terrorism in Civil War project.
Duke University
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- civil war/insurgency; peace; terrorism; war
- large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling
- Beardsley, Balcells, de Marchi, Feaver, Grieco, Leventoglu, Maghraoui, Niou, Siegel, [Ward]
- [Wardlab]
George Washington University
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- human rights violations/repression, genocide, civilian targeting, war, civil war
- large N (cross-national); archival
- the Intrastate Conflict and Violence Workshop
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- civil war/insurgency; human rights violations; peace; policing
- experiments; large N (cross-national)
- Poverty, Violence and Development Working Group
Michigan State University
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- civil war; coups; low intensity violence; repression/human rights violation; terrorism
- large N (cross-national); group
- Workshop on Conflict (WoC)
- Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions
Penn State University
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- civil war; war; terrorism; assassination; human rights violations/repression; coups
- large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling
Databases:
- Correlates of War; The Leadership-Security Ties project; Natural Resources and Armed Conflict Project
Princeton University
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- civil war; ethnic conflict; human rights violations; protest; terrorism
- experiments; large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling
- Aksoy, Bass, Beissinger, Carter, Dancygier, Gowa, Wantchekon, Wasow, Yashar,
- Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
Stanford University
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- civil war; ethnic conflict
- experiments; large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; ethnographic/field research
- Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
- 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
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- civil war; nonviolent civil resistance; terrorism; militarized disputes; conflict management; repression/human rights violation
- large N (cross-national); group-level; network analysis
- A. Braithwaite, J. Braithwaite, Ghosn, Milward, Ryckman, Volgy
- A&A ("Anomalous and Adversarial" groups) Workshop
- Foundations of Rebel Groups (FORG)
- Refugee flows
University of California San Diego
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- censorship; civil war; coercion; distributional conflicts; peace; rebellion; war
- large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; big data; archival
- Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
University of Chicago
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- civil war; terrorism; social movements; domination; war; contentious politics
- large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; big data; archival
- The Comparative subfield workshop commonly features projects of interest, Program on International Security Policy (PISP), Program on International Politics, Economics and Security (PIPES)
University of Georgia
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- extremism; human rights violations/repression; protest
- large N (cross-national); subnational
Databases:
- Cingranelli-Richards Database (CIRI); Sub-National Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP)
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
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- war; social movements; cooperation; terrorism; happiness/life satisfaction; threat
- large N (cross-national); formal/theoretical modeling
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University of Maryland
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- civil war/insurgency; collective action; ethnic conflict; terrorism; war
- large N (cross-national); group
- Allee, Birnir, Bond, Croco, K. Cunningham, D. Cunningham, Hadden, Huth, Kastner, [Lichbach], McCauley, Reed
- Center for International Development and Conflict Management, ICONS, [START Center]
- Minorities at Risk (MAR/All Minorities at Risk (AMAR), [ICB], [START]
University of Michigan
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- 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
- large N (cross-national); subnational; ethnographic/field research; experimental; formal/theoretical modeling
- Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) & Workshop
- 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
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- war; insurgency; terrorism; protest
- large N (cross-national); formal/theoretical modeling; group
- IR Research Seminar
- Threat and Imposition of Sanctions Data
University of North Texas
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- civil liberties; conflict management; human rights violation/repression; insurgency; international conflict; peace; ethnic conflict
- large N (cross-national)
- Peace Studies Program; Castleberry Peace Institute
- Issue Correlates of War
University of Notre Dame
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- civil war; genocide/human rights; peace; political violence
- large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling
- Kellogg Institute, Kroc Institute
- Dyadic Peace Measure; Peace Accords Matrix
University of Pennsylvania
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- civil war; ethnic conflict; protest; terrorism; war
- large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; leader(s)
- Poli-Sci subfield workshops that often bring in projects of interest.
- Why Leaders Fight; War time Causalties
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- civil war; genocide; peace; territory; nationalism; terrorism; war
- large N (cross-national); theoretical modeling; experiments; qualitative; institutions
- International Relations Colloquium; Experimental Politics Workshop
- COW IGO dataset; domestic politics of authoritarian regimes; homeland territorial claims
Yale University
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- civil war; war; civilian victimization; counter-insurgency; ethnic conflict; guerilla war; mobilization
- experiments; large N (cross-national)
- Order, Conflict and Violence [Workshop]
- Indiscriminate Violence in Chechnya; Counter-Insurgency War
[ ] = near retirement, on leave, with dual appointment with another unit or with some administrative duty
