Departing from personal memories of protests in London and Berlin, in this article I make
space within the memory-activism nexus to consider how contemporary activists are …

The global COVID-19 pandemic affected much of the world's human rights for 2020 and
2021 and will continue to have human rights ramifications for years to come. While many …

Abstract As of July 2020, COVID-19 has caused over 600,000 deaths, with 17 million
confirmed cases, and counting. The World Health Organization (WHO), the global …

Governments repress using different logics. Responsive repression is employed in the
aftermath of dissent activities. Preemptive repression is applied in anticipation of challenges …

This article reviews the social scientific literature on the causes of and prevention of torture,
analyzes its successes and failures, and proposes a way forward. Many researchers have …

Why do states engage in violence against marginalized social groups? State violence is
typically explained as a calculated response to dissent or as a means of preventing dissent …

From 1972 to 1991, a network of Chicago Police detectives used torture to force confessions
from over 100 criminal suspects. Almost all were Black men, and many were wrongly …

The risk factors and consequences of atrocities are deeply interconnected with questions of
intra-and interstate stability and conflict, economic development, colonialism, and gender …

How do external threats affect leaders' incentives to repress? We argue that external threats
both increase and decrease state repression, but through different causal pathways …

Why do states and their agents abuse citizens? Traditional explanations focus on
contentious politics, the presence of institutions, and international pressures. Despite this …