Oliver Kaplan is an Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of the book, Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which examines how civilian communities organize to protect themselves from wartime violence. He was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and previously a postdoctoral Research...

Trey is a Data Scientist with the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies (The Ohio State University) and received his PhD in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include the dynamics and consequences of violence, mass atrocities, spatial analysis, and causal inference. His work...

Sooyeon Kang is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies (The Ohio State University) and a non-resident Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights (Harvard Kennedy School). She received her doctorate from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (University of Denver) and was a 2020-2021 Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace as well as a 2020-2021 Doctoral Research...

Ron E. Hassner (PhD, Stanford University 2003) is Chancellors Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at U.C. Berkeley.  His research focuses on religion and conflict, territorial and border disputes, intelligence analysis, and Israel Studies.  He is the author of Religion on the Battlefield (Cornell 2016), Religion in the Military Worldwide (Cambridge, 2013), and War on Sacred Grounds (Cornell, 2009).