Monthly Archives: February 2016

Today’s Conflict Consortium Virtual Workshop featured Whitney Taylor‘s co-authored paper (with Holly Nyseth Brehm) “Sanctioning Atrocity: To What Effect?”  An excellent panel comprised of Risa Brooks, Halvard Buhaug, Jacqueline DeMeritt, Matt Krain and Babak Rezaee offered feedback.  You can watch … Continue reading →

I have a common name in the English speaking world: William Moore.  I am named after my father and paternal grandfather, both of whom were known as Billy as boys and Bill as adults.  My parents called me Willy as … Continue reading →

Wait a minute, Chris Rock is hosting the whateverth edition of The Oscars? I last watched The Oscars in 1977, at a Vail ski lodge, stoned on some Thai stick that some kid in my group had shared.[1] As I … Continue reading →

The Conflict Consortium Virtual Workshop had another great session this week, featuring Rory Truex‘s working paper “The Temporal Logic of Repression in China: A Political Calendar Approach.” Jennifer Earl, Chris Fariss, Haifeng Huang, Molly Roberts and Milan Svolik offered excellent … Continue reading →

The Spring 2016 Conflict Consortium’s Virtual Workshop (CCVW) jumped into its second session with a paper from Solveig Hillesund entitled “Types of inequality matter: How political and economic forms of horizontal inequality spur different conflict mobilization processes.” Olga Chyz and … Continue reading →