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Maria J. Stephan

Maria J. Stephan
Dr. Maria J. Stephan is a Senior Policy Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. She is the co-author, with Erica Chenoweth, of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia University Press, 2011). The views expressed here are her own.
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How Nonviolent Action Could Thwart ISIL’s Advance in Iraq

ISIL fighters are making gains in Iraq. But this does not mean that their violence is decisive. By Maria J. Stephan

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