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Jessica Maves Braithwaite

Associate Professor, School of Government and Public Policy | Member of the Graduate Faculty

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Jessica Braithwaite's research addresses how repressive activities and institutional characteristics of governments influence and are influenced by) violent and nonviolent strategies of domestic opposition groups. She also examines the origins of rebellion as a co-creator of the Foundations of Rebel GrouEmergence FORGE) dataset. Her work has been published or is forthcoming at Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Research and Politics, and Conflict Management and Peace Science.

Research Area

rebel groups, social movements, political science, conflict resolution, democratization, conflict, civil wars, conflict studies, africa, effect, organizational behavior, civil society

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    Recent

    Who is the IO? IOs as Intermediaries in Aid Networks

    2025

    Backgrounds with benefits? Rebel grouorigins and concessions during civil wars in Africa

    2024
    civil wars, rebel groups, africa, conflict resolution, political science

    Layers of political repression: Integrating research on social movement repression

    2022

    Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. By Erica Chenoweth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 368p. 18.95 paper.

    2022
    civil resistance, political science, social movements, conflict studies, nonviolent action

    Organizations, resistance, and democracy: How civil society organizations impact democratization

    2022
    civil society, democratization, resistance, impact, democracy

    Challenges and payoffs of building a dataset from scratch

    2022
    data collection, challenges, dataset creation, data quality, data analysis

    Two Sides of the Same Coin? Examining Rebel Governance and Terrorism

    2021
    rebel governance, terrorism, conflict studies, political violence, security studies

    Two Sides of the Same Coin

    2021

    Layers of Political Repression: Connecting Disjointed Research Related to Social Movement Repression

    2021
    political repression, social movements, research, political movements, social repression

    Organizations, Resistance and Democracy: How Quotidian Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization

    2020
    civil society, democratization, resistance, organizations, democracy

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    • International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa

    • The Scientific Study of Civil Wars

    • Dynamics of Civil Wars

    • Methods of Political Inquiry

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