David Cunningham left PRIO in 2010. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
David Cunningham
Senior Researcher
Email: davcun@prio.no
Work phone: +47 22 54 77 56
Latest publications
All publications
Where, when, and how does the UN work to prevent civil war in self-determination disputes?
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Words and Deeds: From Incompatibilities to Outcomes in Anti-Government Disputes
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Resolving Civil Wars Before they Start: The United Nations Security Council and Conflict Prevention
Journal Article in British Journal of Political Science
Preventing Civil War: How the Potential for International Intervention can Deter Conflict Onset
Journal Article in World Politics
The United Nations and Conflict Prevention
PRIO Policy Brief
Violence and Non-Violence in Anti-Government Mobilization
PRIO Policy Brief
Non-State Actors in Civil War
Book Chapter in Peace and Conflict 2016
Trends in Civil War Data: Geography, Organizations, and Events
Book Chapter in What Do We Know about Civil Wars?
Resolving Civil Wars before They Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes
Journal Article in British Journal of Political Science
Nonviolence as a Weapon of the Resourceful: From Claims to Tactics in Mobilization
Journal Article in Mobilization
Latest news
What Do We Know about Civil Wars?
Since World War II, civil wars have replaced interstate wars as the most frequent and deadly form of armed conflict globally. A new book, What Do We Know about Civil Wars? is edited by T. David Mason & Sarah McLaughlin Mitchell, and has several contributions from present and former PRIO researchers, all connected to PRIO's Centre for the Study of Civil War (2002-2012).
IACM Outstanding Article in the field Award for 2009 to CSCW researchers
David Cunningham, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Idean Salehyan have been awarded the Outstanding Article of the year award for 2009 by the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM). The ceremony took place at the IACM annual meeting in Istanbul.
Special Issue of Journal of Conflict Resolution
The August issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution is a special issue dedicated to output from the Disaggregating Civil War project. This project (GROW) is a collaboration between CSCW (PRIO), University of Essex and ETH Zürich. This special issue is edited by Lars-Erik Cederman and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch.
Latest events
Workshop on "Actors, Strategies and Tactics in Contentious Direct Action"
Strategies for Political Change: Why groups use nonviolence, violence, or both
Political Institutions and Conflict Resolution
GROW-Net Workshop
