Kirssa Cline Ryckman

Interests

Research

dynamics of non-state conflict, to include nonviolent actions such as protest and nonviolent movements as well as violent actions, including terrorism and civil war

Teaching

armed conflict, strategic nonviolent conflict, terrorism, human security, beginning statistics

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Ryckman, K. L. (2024). When Nonviolent Civil Resistance Campaigns Fail: Demobilized, Escalated and Negotiated Ends. Milton, UK: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003506119

Chapters

• Ryckman, K. L. (2021). Is Violence the Answer? A Pragmatic Approach. In Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice. Oxford University Press.
• Ryckman, K. L., & Henshaw, A. (2022). Data Visualization. In Teaching Political Methodology(pp TBD). Cheltenham, UK: Elgar Publishing.

Journals/Publications

• Ryckman, K. L. (2019). A Turn to Violence: The Escalation of Nonviolent Movements. Journal of Conflict Resolution.
• Ryckman, K. L. (2017). Lasting Peace or Temporary Calm? Rebel Group Decapitation and Civil War Outcomes. Conflict Management and Peace Science.
• Ryckman, K. L., & Maves Braithwaite, J. (2017). Changing Horses in Midstream: Leadership Changes and the Civil War Peace Process. Conflict Management and Peace Science.
• Ryckman, K. L., & Ryckman, M. (2017). All Politics Is Local: The Domestic Agenda of Terror Groups and the Study of Transnational Attacks. Journal of Global Security Studies, 2(1), 55-73. doi:10.1093/jogss/ogw026
• Ryckman, K. L. (2016). Ratification as accommodation? Domestic dissent and human rights treaties. Journal of Peace Research, 53(4), 582-596. doi:10.1177/0022343316630038

Reviews

• Ryckman, K. L. (2020. Review of Protest and Democracy, Arce and Rice (eds).
  More info

  Book review of Democracy and Protest, Arce and Rice (eds), for the journal Terrorism and Political Violence

Case Studies

• Ryckman, K. L. (2018. Using Theory to Transform Quantitative Datasets: Finding a Way to Distinguish Domestic From Transnational Terror Attacks(pp 1-10).

Others

• Maves Braithwaite, J., Earl, J., & Ryckman, K. L. (2020, June). Teach Police Nonviolence. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/teach-police-nonviolence-scholars-say-and-how-to-work-with-local-residents-141013
  More info

  Ryckman, Kirssa Cline, Jennifer Earl, Jessica Maves Braithwaite. 2020. “Teach police nonviolence.” Published with a creative commons license in The Conversation, available at: https://theconversation.com/teach-police-nonviolence-scholars-say-and-how-to-work-with-local-residents-141013 . Published June 24, 2020.
• Ryckman, K. L., Earl, J., & Maves Braithwaite, J. (2020, June). Why the Generals Should Still be Worried. Political Violence at a Glance. https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2020/06/26/why-the-generals-should-still-be-worried/
  More info

  Braithwaite, Jessica Maves, Jennifer Earl, Kirssa Cline Ryckman. 2020. “Why the Generals Should Still be Worried.” Published in Political Violence at a Glance, available at https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2020/06/26/why-the-generals-should-still-be-worried/. Published June 25, 2020 .