Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, and Soha Hammam

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Erica Chenoweth Erica Chenoweth is a political scientist at Harvard Kennedy School and co-director of the Crowd Counting Consortium. Chenoweth is the author of "Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know" and co-author of "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict." Jeremy Pressman Jeremy Pressman is a professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and co-director of the Crowd Counting Consortium. His most recent book is "The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force." Soha Hammam Soha Hammam is a postdoctoral research associate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Nonviolent Action Lab, where she researches political mobilization and law enforcement responses across the U.S. She was previously a Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.

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