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While such promises can help sustain peace, excessive promises may not be credible. To test how far executive constraints should go in post-conflict settings, the article draws on global data from post-conflict regimes between 1975 and 2019 and a case study of the M23 rebels in the DR Congo.

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The authors compare private goods for ex-combatants (e.g. training programmes) and public goods (e.g. development plans) using cross-national data on peace agreements (1975–2021). They show that promises of private goods are more effective at preventing conflict recurrence than public good pledges

Moving beyond group-level explanations alone, they construct a new dataset capturing the value of potential target cities and the costs of attacking them for rebel groups worldwide (2000-2020).
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The analysis combines data on coercive migration attempts since the 1950s with environmental disaster records.

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Drawing on the concept of coercive engineered migration, which is the deliberate use of cross-border population movements to force concessions, the study argues that environmental disasters can overwhelm state capacity and make such coercion more effective.

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The authors argue that when such violence is framed in patriotic symbols and language, it can become less concerning. They test this theory through a survey experiment with 1,574 American adults, offering new insight into how national identity can shape public responses to domestic extremism.

@juanalbarracind.bsky.social, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak and Jonas Wolff develop a theoretical framework and test it in a mixed-methods study of the Brazilian Amazon, combining statistical analysis with an in-depth case study of Altamira.

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The 14 special issue articles make advancements in four areas: (1) strategies of violent actors to avoid the accountability constraints of democracy, (2) the actors sponsoring violence, (3) the effects of political violence in democracy, and (4) the debate on popular support for political violence.

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Using social media engagement as a proxy, they find a measurable drop in support for Republican politicians, especially those closely aligned with Donald Trump. The findings suggest that violent escalation can provoke short-term backlash, even in consolidated democracies.

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Using case studies from Nigeria (2003) and the United States (2021), Kathleen Klaus (@uupeace.bsky.social) and @meganturnbull.bsky.social (@universityofga.bsky.social) introduce an analytical framework to explain how election violence becomes thinkable and feasible, even in stable democracies.