Seminar with Christian Davenport: "Three ways to stop and not to stop state repression and human rights abuses"
Time: 18 September at 14:00-15:15
Place: Norad, Information Centre (5th floor)
Davenport’s primary research interests include political conflict (e.g., human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance, civil war and social movements), measurement, racism and popular culture.
Davenport’s latest book, The Death and Life of State Repression: Understanding Onset, Escalation, Termination and Recurrence (2022, Oxford University Press), finds that political democratization plays a crucial role in reducing and stopping most aspects of repressive spells and democratization itself is influenced by non-violent direction action. Davenport’s findings have major implications for those who wish to study state repression as well as those who have an interest in trying to reduce as well as stop it from occurring across the Death/Life cycle.
There will be time for dialog and interaction after Davenport’s presentation.