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Kathleen Cunningham

@kgcunnin.bsky.social
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Professor, Gov & Politics, University of Maryland

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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
academic.oup.com/jpr/issue/63/3 Journal of Peace Research special issue "Organizations as Pivotal Actors: Studying Collective Action and its Consequences in Conflict Environments" is now officially published!
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Volume 63 Issue 3 | Journal of Peace Research | Oxford Academic
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I made signs expressing points of disagreement with the government
Guy holding posters of Indiana Jones captioned “Professors: Good; Nazis bad”
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Connor Kopchick @connorkopchick.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Which types of repression are more likely to elicit foreign sympathy and support for victims? @kgcunnin.bsky.social and I find that US respondents are more sympathetic and supportive of those facing religious and language rights violations, but that these effects are not felt uniformly by partisans.
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Rights violations and international public opinion
Victims of human rights violations and their activist allies often attempt to rally external solidarity for aggrieved groups in order to end repression. We conduct a nation-wide survey experiment t...
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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Just got my paper copy of this great book by Sherry Zaks. Recommend for anyone interested in rebel groups and rebel governance.
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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/07/rebe...
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Rebel Governance in an Age of Climate Change
In Myanmar’s resource-rich Kachin State, deforestation linked to illegal logging and mining has surged over the past decade. While the national government struggles to assert control, the Kachin [...]
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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
First adventure in dog fostering!
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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This update took longer than I anticipated, but it's out now! New data on organizational use of violent and nonviolent tactics. Using a diversity of nonviolent tactics is linked to longer survival for orgs. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SXPRW...
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Tactics of survival: Strategies of Resistance Data Project update - Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Ted Ellsworth, Harriet Goers, Michael Cowan, Oja Pathak, Ellin Chung, 2025
This article presents an update on the Strategies of Resistance Data Project. It extends the original coding of organizations seeking greater self-determination...
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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Excited to share our new book! Rebel groups can play key roles in addressing environmental and climate related challenges. w/ @dfjung.bsky.social @cloyle.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social @reyhuang.bsky.social & Leo Gentil Fernandes www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change
Cambridge Core - Climatology and Climate Change - Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change
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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Strategic use of referenda by nonstate actors... referenda can be used as a way to gain or uphold status within a movement. w/ Harriet Goers & @laiabalcells.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Internal drivers of self-rule referendums - Harriet Goers, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Laia Balcells, 2025
From Catalonia to Kurdistan to Scotland, referendums have increasingly become popular strategies of self-rule movements. Despite this, many referendums are cons...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Climate change matters for security link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Armed rebel groups engage in climate governance - Climatic Change
An estimated two billion people live in areas presently affected by fragility, armed conflict, and violence. In many of these locations armed non-state actors (e.g. rebel groups) rather than the state...
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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
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