Erica Chenoweth is a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and, beginning in 2019, the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Foreign Policy magazine ranked her among the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013 for her work to advance the empirical study of civil resistance. Her book, Why Civil Resistance Works(Columbia University Press, 2011) with Maria J. Stephan, also won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Chenoweth has authored or edited five books and dozens of articles on political violence and its alternatives. She earned a PhD and an MA from the University of Colorado and a BA from the University of Dayton.


Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice. He is the author of eight books, including the award-winning studies Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003) and Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (2006). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Fellow of Keble College Oxford, and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews.


Andreas Gofas is Associate Professor of International Relations at Panteion University of Athens and director of the Center for the Analysis of Terrorism and European Security (CATES) at the European Law and Governance School. His publication include The Sage Handbook of the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of International Relations (co-edited with Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Nicholas Onuf, Sage, 2018), and The Role of Ideas in Political Analysis (co-edited wtih Colin Hay, Routledge, 2012).


Stathis N. Kalyvas is the Gladstone Professor of Government at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College. Prior to his appointment at Oxford, he was the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also founded and headed the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence. His publications include Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP, 2015), and The Logic of Violence in Civil War (CUP, 2006).

Max Abrahms, Northeastern University.
Gary Ackerman, University at Albany (SUNY).
Eitan Azani, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT).
John Bew, King's College London.
Andrea Bianchi, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
Juliette Bird, Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO Counter Terrorism.
Lorenzo Bosi, Scuola Normale Superiore.
Alia Brahimi, Pembroke College.
Warren C. Brown, California Institute of Technology.
Daniel Byman, Georgetown University.
David B. Carter, Washington University in St. Louis.
Brahma Chellaney, independent Center for Policy Research, New Dehli.
Erica Chenoweth, Harvard University.
Courtenay R. Conrad, University of California, Merced.
Martha Crenshaw, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies.
Luis De la Calle, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico City.
Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore.
Laura Dugan, University of Maryland.
Juliet U. Elu, Morehouse College.
Richard English, Queen's University Belfast.
Jonathan Evans, University of St Andrews.
Megan Farrell, University of Texas at Austin.
Susan Fahey, Stockton University.
Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings.
Michael G. Findley, University of Texas at Austin.
Daren Fisher, The Citadel.
Martyn Frampton, Lauder School of Government.
Caron E. Gentry, University of St Andrews.
Andreas Gofas, Panteion University of Athens.
Jeff Goodwin, New York University.
Jeffrey Haynes, London Metropolitan University.
Charlotte Heath-Kelly, University of Warwick.
Virginia Held, City University of New York.
Jennifer S. Holmes, University of Texas at Dallas.
John G. Horgan, Georgia State University.
Richard Jackson, University of Otago.
Stathis N. Kalyvas, University of Oxford.
Anastasia Kouloganes, Thomson Reuters World-Check.
Gary LaFree, University of Maryland.
Brenda J. Lutz, University of Dundee.
Siniša Malešević, University College, Dublin.
Stefan Malthaner, Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, George Washington University.
Erin Miller, University of Maryland.
Gregory D. Miller, National Defense University.
Martin A. Miller, Duke University.
Saurabh Pant, Princeton University.
Evan Perkoski, University of Connecticut.
Brian Phillips, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), Mexico City.
Gregory N. Price, Morehouse College.
Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca, Carlos III University of Madrid.
Ben Saul, University of Sydney.
Alex P. Schmid, Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives on Terrorism.
Jacob N. Shapiro, Princeton University.
David A Siegel, Duke University.
Rashmi Singh, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais.
Jessica A. Stanton, University of Minnesota.
Harold Trinkunas, Stanford University.
Tim Wilson, University of St Andrews.
Joseph K. Young, American University.

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