The Politics of Passage: New Research on Checkpoints and Revenue in Conflict
Across conflict-affected settings, checkpoints are much more than barriers to movement. They are sites where authority is asserted, revenues are collected, and power is negotiated. This webinar lau...
Five politicians killed in one weekend in South Africa #shorts
...Sicelo Mleve was killed in Nelson Mandela Bay.
This paints a bigger picture of political violence in South Africa. In 2025, we recorded 25 politically motivated assassinations i...
Mediabox spoke to rapporteur Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA) as PACE voiced concern over respect for the principles of democracy, rule of law and public freedoms in Serbia. The assembly deplored inc...
Colombia has elected a new president — but why does that matter for the country’s conflict?
In this ACLED Briefed, we break down why Abelardo de la Espriella’s victory matters, how Colombia got he...
العنف الرقمي خطير جدا وقد يسبب ألما عميقا للمتلقي
La violence numérique est dangereuse et peut causer une profonde souffrance
Forecasting where violence may move next means understanding how conflict takes shape on the ground. It means looking at the actors involved, the types of events taking place, how violence spreads,...
Baroness Shah cites CCDH and calls Meta out for fueling violence on Facebook
New “Safety Off” research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that violent threats against elected officials on Facebook have QUADRUPLED after Meta weakened its safety protections.
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PAGAD: A campaign of violence
What began as targeted killings of gang leaders in Cape Town escalated into something far more indiscriminate, and far more deadly. David Africa on the scale of PAGAD's campaign of violence. Watch ...
PAGAD: Vigilantes and the intelligence war in South Africa.
In the early years of South Africa's democracy, a militant organisation was waging a campaign of violence —and the state didn't want to believe it was real. On this episode of Underworlds, David Af...
KF Senior Fellow William Kristol, editor-at-large of The Bulwark, joins us to discuss how eroding trust is helping authoritarianism gain ground in America and what that shift means for democracies ...
...iolence continued to be used in detention settings as part of the repertoire of political violence to intimidate and punish opponents.
...rst examples occurred in Kenya. Following a disputed election in 2007, opposing political and ethnic factions clashed in the streets. More than a thousand people were killed, and...
Presentación: Hallazgos del estudio sobre violencia hacia mujeres políticas en el parlamento
ONU Mujeres Uruguay, junto al Poder Legislativo, presentó en una nueva instancia el estudio “Ser candidata en las elecciones 2024 en Uruguay. Violencia contra las mujeres en política” en el Parlame...
Ulkopoditiikkaa: Ketkä löytyvät Putinin pikavalinnasta?
Uusi podcast-jakso sukeltaa Venäjän vallan kulisseihin ja suurvaltaretoriikan todellisuuteen. Samaan aikaan kun kansa kärsii internetsuluista ja yhteydet katkeilevat, Putin pitää omat linjansa auki...
When governments start rolling back democratic norms, it can be tempting to hope it is just a passing phase. However, history tells a different story.
At a recent Devex event, we heard from civil ...
''De macht over de geweldsmiddelen in Rusland is verspreid over veel partijen. Als die er niet met elkaar uitkomen kan dat nog weleens tot geweld leiden. Dat maakt de opvolging van Poetin onbereken...
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• Can Socially Cohesive Neighborhoods Protect Democracy from Political Violence? (https://www.justsecurity.org/138198/socially-cohesive-neighborhoods-democracy...
Historical tensions and institutional weaknesses have shaped episodes of political violence in Kenya.
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