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Program
Thursday 8 May 2014
9.30 Coffee and welcome
10.00 Session I
Chair: Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Kathleen Cunningham* (Maryland) and Marianne Dahl* (PRIO & NTNU)
Strategies of Dissent
kgcunnin@gmail.com, mdahl@prio.no
Lee Seymour (Amsterdam)
Acting Without Choosing: Strategic Choice and Non-Violent Resistance
L.J.M.Seymour@uva.nl
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Session II
Chair: Scott Gates
David Cunningham (Maryland), Belén González (Essex)*, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch* (Essex), Dragana Vidovic* (Essex), and Peter White* (Maryland)
One way or another: Regime claims and the mode of direct collective action
ksg@essex.ac.uk, dacunnin@umd.edu, mbgonz@essex.ac.uk, draganavidovic@gmail.com, pbwhite@umd.edu
Julia Semmelbeck and Anna-Lena Hönig (Mannheim)
The Cooperation Effect: Understanding Resources in Conflict and Protest Groups
anna.lena.hoenig@gmail.com, julia.semmelbeck@gmail.com
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-18.00 Session III
Chair: Erica Chenoweth
Charles Butcher* (Otago), Elvira Bobekova, John Gray, and Liesel Mitchell
Group Participation in Violent and Nonviolent Conflict: Social Networks and Contentious Direct Action
charles.butcher@otago.ac.nz
Sara Polo (Essex)
How Terrorism Spreads: Information, Emulation, and the Diffusion of Terrorism
smtpol@essex.ac.uk
Nikolay Marinov* (Mannheim) and Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zurich)
Does Social Media Promote Civic Activism?
marinov@sowi.uni-mannheim.de
Friday 9 May 2014
9.00-11 Session IV
Chair: David Cunningham
Marianne Dahl (PRIO & NTNU)
Military defection during non-violent and violent campaigns
mdahl@prio.no
Espen Geelmuyden Rød (Konstanz)
Mode of Goods Provision, Targeted Repression, and Collective Action in Autocracies
espen.geelmuyden.roed@uni-konstanz.de
11-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Session V
Erica Chenoweth (Denver)
Nonviolent Action and Civil War Termination
Erica.Chenoweth@du.edu
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-16.30 Session VI
Scott Gates, Ragnhild Nordås (PRIO)
Recruitment, Retention, and Religion in Rebel Groups
scott@prio.no, ragnhild@prio.no
Andrea Ruggeri (Amsterdam) & Stefano Costalli* (Catholic University of Milan)
Tactics in the Italian Resistance
Stefano.Costalli@unicatt.it
Håvard Strand* (University of Oslo) and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch* (University of Essex & PRIO)
Elections and Non-violent Direct Action
hs@prio.no, ksg@essex.ac.uk