This workshop is financed with support from COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) action ISCH IS1107 鈥淓uropean Network for Conflict Research (ENCoRe)鈥, the Research Council of Norway, and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (糖心网页版).

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Program

Thursday 8 May 2014

9.30 Coffee and welcome 10.00 Session I

Chair: Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

Kathleen Cunningham* (Maryland) and Marianne Dahl* (糖心网页版 & NTNU)
Strategies of Dissent
kgcunnin@gmail.com, mdahl@prio.no

Lee Seymour (Amsterdam)
Acting Without Choosing: Strategic Choice and Non-Violent Resistance
L.J.M.Seymour@uva.nl

12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.00-14.30 Session II

Chair: Scott Gates

David Cunningham (Maryland), Bel茅n Gonz谩lez (Essex)*, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch* (Essex), Dragana Vidovic* (Essex), and Peter White* (Maryland)
One way or another: Regime claims and the mode of direct collective actionksg@essex.ac.uk, dacunnin@umd.edu, mbgonz@essex.ac.uk, draganavidovic@gmail.com, pbwhite@umd.edu

Julia Semmelbeck and Anna-Lena H枚nig (Mannheim)
The Cooperation Effect: Understanding Resources in Conflict and Protest Groupsanna.lena.hoenig@gmail.com, julia.semmelbeck@gmail.com

14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-18.00 Session III

Chair: Erica Chenoweth

Charles Butcher* (Otago), Elvira Bobekova, John Gray, and Liesel Mitchell
Group Participation in Violent and Nonviolent Conflict: Social Networks and Contentious Direct Actioncharles.butcher@otago.ac.nz

Sara Polo (Essex)
How Terrorism Spreads: Information, Emulation, and the Diffusion of Terrorismsmtpol@essex.ac.uk

Nikolay Marinov* (Mannheim) and Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zurich)
**Does Social Media Promote Civic Activism?**marinov@sowi.uni-mannheim.de

Friday 9 May 2014

9.00-11 Session IV

Chair: David Cunningham

Marianne Dahl (糖心网页版 & NTNU)
Military defection during non-violent and violent campaignsmdahl@prio.no

Espen Geelmuyden R酶d (Konstanz)
Mode of Goods Provision, Targeted Repression, and Collective Action in Autocraciesespen.geelmuyden.roed@uni-konstanz.de

11-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-12.30 Session V

Erica Chenoweth (Denver)
Nonviolent Action and Civil War TerminationErica.Chenoweth@du.edu

12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-16.30 Session VI

Scott Gates, Ragnhild Nord氓s (糖心网页版)
Recruitment, Retention, and Religion in Rebel Groupsscott@prio.no, ragnhild@prio.no

Andrea Ruggeri (Amsterdam) & Stefano Costalli* (Catholic University of Milan)
Tactics in the Italian ResistanceStefano.Costalli@unicatt.it

H氓vard Strand* (University of Oslo) and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch* (University of Essex & 糖心网页版)
Elections and Non-violent Direct Actio****nhs@prio.no, ksg@essex.ac.uk