A Department of Homeland Security Emeritus Center of Excellence led by the University of Maryland

Erica Chenoweth

Erica Chenoweth

Former Investigator

Lead Investigator on START Research Projects

Countering Terrorism in the United States

July 2012 to December 2015

Dealing with the Devil: When Bargaining with Terrorists Works

June 2009 to December 2011

Selected Publications

Threat, Emboldenment, or Both? The Effects of Political Power on Violent Hate Crimes (Journal Article)

The Future of Nonviolent Resistance (Journal Article)

Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence (Book)

The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism (Book)

The Future is a Moving Target: Predicting Political Instability (Journal Article)

Introducing the Nonviolent Action in Violent Contexts (NVAVC) dataset (Journal Article)

The Politics of Terror (Book)

Days of Rage: Introducing the NAVCO 3.0 Dataset (Journal Article)

Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings (Report)

The Canadian Way of Counterterrorism: Introducing the GATE-Canada Data Set (Journal Article)

Do Contemporaneous Armed Challenges Affect the Outcomes of Mass Nonviolent Campaigns? (Journal Article)

Introducing Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) Dataset (Conference Paper)

Repressive Efforts are Consistently Counterproductive in Reducing al-Qaeda-Inspired Violence Against Canadians (Report)

Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks (Book Chapter)

Political Mobilization and Institutions (Book Chapter)

Civil Resistance: Reflections on an Idea Whose Time Has Come (Journal Article)

Terrorism and Democracy (Journal Article)

Unpacking nonviolent campaigns : Introducing the NAVCO 2.0 dataset (Journal Article)

Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE): A Methodology that Reveals how Governments Behave toward Terrorists and their Constituencies (Book Chapter)

Democratic Pieces: Democratization and the Origins of Terrorism (Book Chapter)

All Terrorism Is Local: Resources, Nested Institutions, and Governance for Urban Homeland Security in the American Federal System (Journal Article)

Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict (Book)

The Effectiveness of Counterterrorism in Spain: A New Approach (Conference Paper)

To Bribe or to Bomb: Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together? (Book Chapter)

What Makes Terrorists Tick (Journal Article)

The Politics of Collective Action: Security Collaboration for Combating Terrorism (Book Chapter)

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Journal Article)

On Classifying Terrorism: A Potential Contribution of Cluster Analysis for Academics and Policymakers (Journal Article)

All Terrorism is Local: Resources, Nested Institutions, and Governance for Urban Homeland Security in the American Federal System (Journal Article)

Book Review: Lutz, J. M., & Lutz, B. J. (2005). Terrorism: Origins and Evolution. (Book Review)

News References

Foreign Affairs: The death and life of terrorist networks (START in the News)

Vox: There are proven ways to keep protests peaceful. Trump is doing the opposite. (START in the News)

BBC: How many people does it take to oust a political leader? (START in the News)

The Atlantic: When Women Lead Protest Movements (START in the News)

Vox: Donald Trump is inciting violence (START in the News)

The New York Times: Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History (START in the News)

Politico: How women make protests more successful (START in the News)

The Washington Post: The Floyd protests are the broadest in U.S. history - and are spreading to white, small-town America (START in the News)

Vox: Media coverage has blown anti-lockdown protests out of proportion (START in the News)

Quartz: Covid-19 won’t stop the climate emergency—but will it stop climate-change protests? (START in the News)

Vogue: Cameron Russell and Aine Campbell Imagine a Kinder Fashion Industry (START in the News)

The Guardian: The global pandemic has spawned new forms of activism – and they’re flourishing (START in the News)

Ms. Magazine: Four Key Global Trends on Gender, Security and Safety (START in the News)

Business Insider: Experts on activism say millions would have to fill the streets to curb Trump's authoritarian behavior (START in the News)

The Washington Post: The resiliency of American democracy (START in the News)

Brookings Institution: Why are people protesting? (START in the News)

Vox: How to topple dictators and transform society (START in the News)

The New Yorker: The Story of 2019: Protests in Every Corner of the Globe (START in the News)

Los Angeles Times: From Iran to Chile to Sudan, protests take hold around the world (START in the News)

The New York Times: From Chile to Lebanon, Protests Flare Over Wallet Issues (START in the News)

The Guardian: The Guardian view on Extinction Rebellion: numbers alone won't create change (START in the News)

TechCrunch: Catalan separatists have tooled up with a decentralized app for civil disobedience (START in the News)

The Telegraph: Australian state proposes two-year prison sentence for possession of Extinction Rebellion 'human lock' (START in the News)

Vice: If 3.5% of the US Gets on Board With Climate Protesting, Change Will Happen (START in the News)

Quartz: If we are naturally violent, why do armies spend so much on training to kill? (START in the News)

BBC Science Focus: Peaceful protests: Are non-violent demonstrations an effective way to achieve change? (START in the News)

Vox: How big was the global climate strike? 4 million people, activists estimate. (START in the News)

USA Today: Friday's global strike was likely the largest climate rally ever (START in the News)

USIP: To Build Peace, Boost the Women Who Lead the Movements (START in the News)

Small Wars Journal: Adding Strategic Nonviolence to the Unconventional Warfare Doctrine (START in the News)

USIP: People Power Can Boost the Afghan Peace Process (START in the News)

The Conversation: Extinction Rebellion uses tactics that toppled dictators – but we live in a liberal democracy (START in the News)

NPR: Recipe For A Revolution (START in the News)

MSN News: Rebelling against extinction (START in the News)

BBC Future: The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (START in the News)

USA Today: US army could help Venezuela with nonviolent resistance against Maduro (START in the News)

Foreign Affairs: People Power Is Rising in Africa (START in the News)

Tampa Bay Times: Marco Rubio and Venezuela: What a Twitter campaign to oust Maduro says about modern diplomacy (START in the News)

The Hill: Any US military intervention in Venezuela will be counterproductive (START in the News)

The Washington Post: The 2019 Women’s March was bigger than you think (START in the News)

The Conversation: ‘Bye Bye 45:’ Activists create news hoax with President’s resignation (START in the News)

New Republic: How to Build a Powerful Protest Movement (START in the News)

WVIK: Can Peaceful Protest Successfully Influence Change? (START in the News)

Washington Post: 3 ways to look at August’s protests — and 2 charts showing all protests since January 2017 (START in the News)

The Washington Post: Pittsburgh shooting comes amid rise in hate crimes, growing anxiety about right-wing extremism (START in the News)

FiveThirtyEight: How To Make Sense Of This Week’s Mail Bombs (START in the News)

Vice: Tracing the Tactics of 21st-Century Youth Protest (START in the News)

Christian Science Monitor: A nonviolent movement challenges Pakistan's military (START in the News)

Oxfam Blogs: Violence v Non Violence: which is more effective as a driver of change? (START in the News)

GQ: How Free Speech Warriors Mainstreamed White Supremacists (START in the News)

Washington Post: How to make sense of our collapsing global order (START in the News)

The Reason: Is It OK To Punch a Nazi? We Asked Berkeley Students (START in the News)

Washington Post: The Iran struggle will be historic. Here’s what Trump should do. (START in the News)

The Washington Post: What political science can tell us about mass shootings (START in the News)

The New York Times: How to Respond to Richard Spencer (START in the News)

Task and Purpose: Looking For A Gender Gap In The Army? Try The Army Chief Of Staff’s Reading List (START in the News)

Westworld: Resistance in Denver (START in the News)

Vox: The case against antifa (START in the News)

New Yorker: An Intimate History of Antifa (START in the News)

New York Times: How to Make Fun of Nazis (START in the News)

5280 Magazine: In the Age of Trump, Resistance Isn’t Futile (START in the News)

WXXI-TV Online: America Abroad: Civil Resistance: The Power of the People (START in the News)

Carleton Newsroom: Carleton's Canadian Foreign Policy Journal Announces Winner of Best Paper Prize (START in the News)

Newsweek: Inside the Black Bloc, the radical protest tactic that shut down Berkeley (START in the News)

Hit & Run: When the Left Glorifies Violence Against People It Dislikes, Trump Wins (START in the News)

Daily Illini, University of Illinois: Protests shouldn't escalate into violence (START in the News)

Good Times: Inauguration Sparks Women's Marches and Strikes Across the Country (START in the News)

ETH Zurich: Women in Nonviolent Movements (START in the News)

Huffington Post: Why we need to change the way we talk about violent extremism this election season (START in the News)

Salon: Why an armed citizenry isn’t the best defense against state tyranny (START in the News)

Duluth News-Tribune: Breaking things, hurting people not best way to solve global problems (START in the News)

Oxford University Press: Counterterrorism (START in the News)

Vox: From Occupy to Black Lives Matter; how nonviolent resistance is shaping the 2016 elections (START in the News)

National Catholic Reporter: Why is the Catholic church moving away from just war theory? (START in the News)

Radio New Zealand: Erica Chenoweth: Non-violent civil resistance (START in the News)

Williamette Live: KMUZ Program Feature- Quintessential KMUZ Energy and Innovation (START in the News)

North Country Now: St. Lawrence University’s Department of History to Host Guest Lecturer in Canton (START in the News)

Vail Daily: Vail Symposium Unveils Winter 2015 Programs (START in the News)

Foreign Policy: Remember What They Died for on the Maidan (START in the News)

Good Times: Melt the Guns (START in the News)

OpenDemocracy: Resistance, repression, and the cycle of violence in the Uyghur Struggle (START in the News)

Foreign Policy: You Should Still Be Scared of Pyongyang (START in the News)

Foreign Policy: How the Hong Kong Protesters Can Win (START in the News)

PostBulletin.com: Rich Van Dellen: Efforts to stop global wars will benefit world’s climate (START in the News)

Vox: An expert explains how Hong Kong’s protesters could actually win (START in the News)

MPR News: Terrorists talk nation-building, not death, to recruit Twin Cities youth (START in the News)

Foreign Policy: The nature of coalitions (START in the News)

HuntingtonNews.net: OP-EDL: ISIL, the US, and curing our addiction to violence (START in the News)

The Gilmer Mirror: ISIL, the US, and curing our addiction to violence (START in the News)

MintPress News: The New Realpolitik: Henry Kissinger, ISIS, and American Empire (START in the News)

NPR: Why Civil Resistance Movements Succeed (START in the News)

Foreign Affairs: Drop Your Weapons— When and Why Civil Resistance Works (START in the News)

Dr. Erica Chenoweth: Global thinker, peace researcher (News)

PRIO: Erica Chenoweth Receives Karl Deutsch Award (START in the News)

Foreign Policy names Erica Chenoweth a top global thinker (News)

START Newsletter: Intelligence and security; perspectives on terrorism; Hezbollah; 'big data' and coding (Newsletter)

Columbia University Press: Marc Lynch and Erica Chenoweth on U.S. Military Intervention in Syria (START in the News)

START: START researcher comments on military interventions in civil wars (START in the News)

Foreign Affairs: Why Sit-Ins Succeed -- Or Fail (START in the News)

Can verbal communication quell terrorist violence? (Featured Research)

Discussion Point: Thinking Beyond Deterrence (Discussion Point)

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Democracy and Terrorism (START in the News)

Discussion Point: The Dog that Doesn't Bark (Discussion Point)

Database Spotlight: Government Actions in a Terror Environment-Israel (Featured Research)

GlobeNewswire and Homeland Security Today: Moving Beyond Deterrence: The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel (START in the News)

'Carrot' Works Better than 'Stick' Against Terror in Israel (Featured Research)

Inside Indonesia: Why Civil Resistance Works (START in the News)

Researcher Spotlight: Erica Chenoweth (People Spotlight)

START seminar lecturer receives top honors (People Spotlight)

START investigators present research at national conference (Featured Research)

Terrorism expert discusses new research during START Seminar (Featured Research)

START Releases 2011 Research Review (Featured Research)

START Investigators Participate in 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Conference (Featured Research)

Sojourners: People Power (START in the News)

START Announces 2009-2010 Undergraduate Research Program Award Recipients (News)

START Bulletin Summer 2008 Inaugural Issue (Newsletter)

START Announces 2007-08 Fellowship Awards (News)