2023: Inaugural Talk in the Ted R. Gurr Lecture Series: "The Consequences of Contention" by Christian Davenport
Sponsored by Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) and co-sponsored by GVPT Global, the Inaugural Talk in the Ted R. Gurr Lecture series was held at Stamp Student Union Atrium on April 19th, 2023. Former GVPT faculty and a close colleague of the late Ted R. Gurr, Professor Christian Davenport delivered a lecture titled "The Consequences of Contention: The Political and Economic Aftereffects of Government-Challenger Interaction."
About the Participants
Christian Davenport is the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Professor of the study of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) as well as an Elected Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Davenport was a faculty member at the department of GVPT and CIDCM from 1999 to 2008 and a close colleague to Ted R. Gurr who hand selected him to run the Polity and Minorities at Risk Projects. Dr. Davenport is a renowned scholar of domestic state repression/ human rights violations, social movements and political contention. He is the author of several books including The Death and Life of State Repression: Understanding Onset, Escalation, Termination and Recurrence (2022, Oxford University Press); The Peace Continuum with Erik Melander and Patrick Regan (2017, Oxford University Press); How Social Movements Die (2016, Cambridge University Press); and numerous articles appearing in the American Political Science Review, the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Political Studies, and the Monthly Review (among others).
Jóhanna Birnir, Director of GVPT Global Learning and Professor in the Department of Government and Politics.
Paul Huth, Director of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) and Professor in the Department of Government and Politics.
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2022: The Future of Democracy in the Shadow of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Hosted by GVPT Global Learning at the University of Maryland, the panel featured Maryland State Senator and former U.S. Ambassador to Romania, James Rosapepe, and Margaret Pearson, the Horace E. and Wilma V. Harrison Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland. The discussion was moderated by Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace.
About the Participants
State Senator James Rosapepe, U.S. Ambassador to Romania from 1998 to 2001 during the war in Kosovo. He was the first chair of the Maryland/Leningrad Sister State Committee and Investment Committee Chair of the Albanian American Enterprise Fund. Board member and podcast host of the Council of American Ambassadors. From 2001 to 2006, he was a Regent of the University System of Maryland and currently represents College Park in the Maryland Senate.
Margaret Pearson, Dr. Horace E. and Wilma V. Harrison Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. She is most recently a co-author of China's Strategic Multilateralism: Investing in Global Governance. Her research can also be found in numerous other books and academic journals including the Journal of Politics and World Politics.
Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development and Director of the University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll. He is also Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of, among other books, The Stakes: America in the Middle East.
Jóhanna Birnir, Director of GVPT Global Learning and Professor in the Department of Government and Politics. She is the author of Ethnic Electoral Politics, and her research has appeared in several academic journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Journal of Peace Research.
