Marie O'Reilly | Inclusive Security, 2015 | Article
A review of recent quantitative and qualitative research shows how women's inclusion in peace and security outcomes helps prevent conflict, create peace and sustain security after war ends.
Yohana Desta | Mashable, 2015 | Article
From Dorothy Height to Septima Clark, a look at the women leaders of the Civil Rights Movement who got "lost in the narrow, unforgiving filter of time."
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan | Washington Post, 2016 | Book
Political scientists Chenoweth and Stephan drill into the data, finding that nonviolent resistance campaigns "tend to succeed because nonviolent methods have a greater potential for eliciting mass participation — on average, they elicit about 11 times more participants than the average armed uprising ..."
Victor Asal, Richard Legault, Ora Szekely, Jonathan Wilkenfeld | Journal of Peace Research, 2013 | Article
In this large-N study of political mobilization, political scientist Victor Asal and colleagues find that the most surprising variable affecting a movement's decision to adopt nonviolence is the organization's ideology regarding the role of women in society.
Mary Elizabeth King | Praeger, 2015 | Book
Mary Elizabeth King speaks from her personal experience on the transformational role that women leaders like Septima Poinsette Clark, Ella J. Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer played in the U.S. civil rights movement.