Civil war and terrorism

The response project is an assessment of students’ abilities to demonstrate mastery of the course objectives:
Apply the comparative method framework to evaluating and critically engaging with scholarly research.
Compare and contrast institutions that promote democratic representation in established and developing
democracies.
Create policy recommendations to reduce political violence and promote economic and political development.
Students will write ONE term paper and may choose their topic from the list of nine topics. Students will be
required to sign up for their research paper.
Topic #5: Civil Wars & Terrorism
Prompt: Imagine that you are a consultant at a large think-tank organization and you are tasked with creating a
policy recommendation to reduce political violence. Choose one area in the world in which political violence is
currently occurring (either terrorism or civil war). How would you reduce political violence in that area? Conduct
a comparative analysis to justify your argument. Based on your comparative analysis of these cases, what
policy recommendations could you make to reduce the occurrence of political violence?
Suggested Readings:
Chenoweth and Ulfelder (2017)
Chenoweth, Perkoski, and Kang (2017)
Della Porta (2013)
Walter (2017)
Weinstein (2005)
Humphreys and Weinstein (2008)
Humphreys and Weinstein (2006)
Sources & Works Cited