Overview −+
The Human Security Initiative examines a range of factors that influence or threaten the physical, social and economic well-being of humans.聽 These factors include natural resource and agricultural availability, climate change, political violence and political protest, human rights and migration, political repression and others.
Recent Publications −+
Conrad, Justin, Liana Eustacia Reyes and Megan A. Stewart. 2022. 鈥淩evisiting Opportunism in Civil Conflict: Natural Resource Extraction and Health Care Provision.鈥 Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Murdie, Amanda and Jeong-Woo Koo.聽 2022. 鈥淒o NGO Restrictions Limit Terrorism? Smear Campaigns or Counterterrorism Tools.鈥 Journal of Global Security Studies.
Auer, Matthew and Ben Hexamer. 鈥淚ncome and Insurability as Factors in Wildfire Risk.鈥 Forests.
Murdie, Amanda and Alejandro Anaya-Munoz.聽 2022.聽 鈥淭he Will and the Way: How State Capacity and Willingness Jointly Affect Human Rights Improvement.鈥 Human Rights Review.
Auer, Matthew. 2021. 鈥淐onsidering Equity in Wildfire Protection.鈥 Sustainability Science.
Turnbull, Megan. 2021. “When Armed Groups Refuse to Carry Out Election Violence.鈥 World Development.
Conrad, Justin and William Spaniel. 2021. Militant Competition: How Terrorists and Insurgents Advertise with Violence and How They Can Be Stopped (Cambridge University Press).
Han, Rongbin and Li Shao. 2021. “Scaling Authoritarian Information Control: How China Adjusts the Level of Online Censorship” Political Research Quarterly.
Munisamy, Gopi and Dikshit Poudel. 2021. “Exploring the Disparity in Global Food Security Indicators,” Global Food Security.
Conrad, Justin, Kevin Greene, Brian Phillips and Samantha Daly.聽 2021. 鈥淐ompetition from Within: Ethnicity, Power and Militant Group Rivalry.鈥 Defence and Peace Economics.
Turnbull, Megan. 2020. “Elite Competition, Social Movements, and Election Violence in Nigeria.” International Security.
Kiyani, Ghashia and Amanda Murdie. 2020. “Unintended Restrictions: Women’s Rights INGOs and Women’s Civil Society Restrictions,鈥 Human Rights Review 21: 349鈥372.
Whitaker, Beth Elise, James Igoe Walsh, and Justin Conrad. 2019. 鈥淣atural Resource Exploitation and Sexual Violence by Rebel Groups.” Journal of Politics 81(2): 702-706.
- Departments & Centers
- Department of Public Administration & Policy
- Department of Political Science
- Department of International Affairs
- Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS)
- 快猫短视频 Survey Research Center
- Benson-Bertsch Center for International Trade & Security (CITS)
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