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Amos Guiora, professor in the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, is available to comment on protests in Israel surrounding potential changes to the country’s judiciary. Guiora is a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces and comments on…
Demonstrators in China continue to protest the country’s strict coronavirus measures. James Carter, PhD, dean of Saint Joseph’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a leading and celebrated scholar on China’s modern history, having published three books on related topics…
Demonstrators in China have recently begun to hold blank pieces of paper at protests. While the paper might say nothing, protesters are sending a clear message, according to Dave Clark, an expert in global protest movements and professor of political…
University of Miami experts versed about the Caribbean nation address what has transpired since the July 11, 2021, anti-government protests.
Sri Lanka is facing an economic and political crisis, with protesters taking to the streets of the island nation to demand government action and accountability. Daniel Bass is manager of the Einaudi Center’s South Asia Program at Cornell University. His…
Thousands continued to protest in Thailand in the wake of an emergency decree issued Thursday by the government limiting gatherings to groups of five and the arrest of key protest leaders. Tamara Loos, professor of history and Thai studies at…
The uprising that erupted in fall 2019 in Chile against the post-dictatorship government may be diminished by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Protests in Rochester, NY continued this week for the eighth day after a federal lawsuit revealed police involvement in the death of Daniel Prude in March along with a subsequent alleged cover up of the incident. The police chief and…
Protests continue this week in Portland, Oregon in the wake of federal law enforcement being deployed to the city. On Saturday, the protest included the participation of a nude woman who confronted officers wearing nothing but a mask and hat.…
Dr. Claire Whitlinger can talk about how the Black Lives Matter movement can leverage protests into permanent change based on the experience of Philadelphia, Mississippi, site of the “Mississippi Burning” murders in 1964. She spent 10 years studying how the…
As protests pushing for police reform and racial justice spread across the U.S., parents may find themselves needing to discuss difficult topics with their children. Parents should think of it as an ongoing conversation, says Laura Bronstein, dean of the…
Confederate monuments are being torn down across the United States as the protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd continue. While the Confederate statues represent a step backwards, tearing them down will not end structural racism, says Anne Bailey,…
Dolph Briscoe, PhD, is a history scholar and lecturer at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, and an excellent quotable source on how the current protests and clashes between demonstrators and police compare with those of past decades. Briscoe, whose teaching and…
This week, tear gas and rubber bullets blinded at least two Americans and caused serious eye injuries in many others. Life-altering eye injuries are a common result of urban warfare and rioting, worldwide. The American Academy of Ophthalmology condemns this growing problem.
As large-scale protests continue following the death of George Floyd, Americans are apprehensive about what can repair relations between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve, and when the healing process can begin. Experts from Arizona State University’s highly…
Amir Asmar is a Department of Defense analyst and CFR’s national intelligence fellow. Throughout his intelligence career, his primary area of focus has been the Middle East. He held a wide range of analytic, senior analytic, and leadership positions for the Department of the Army, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Intelligence Council. The statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed in this blog post are strictly those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense (DoD) or the U.S. government. Review of the material does not imply DoD or U.S. government endorsement of factual accuracy or opinion.
Connie Flanagan, a professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is available to talk about the global youth climate protest movement. Flanagan says, “The climate crisis is arguably the biggest global political challenge facing younger generations…
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