Saturday, November 8, 2025

Erica Chenoweth, Soha Hammam, Jeremy Pressman, and Christopher Wiley Shay

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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." Soha Hammam is the Research Project Manager at the Nonviolent Action Lab's Crowd Counting Consortium, where she researches political mobilization and law enforcement responses across the U.S. 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." Christopher Wiley Shay, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on insurgencies, nonviolent resistance campaigns, and their long-term impacts on democratization and the rule of law.

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