Kirssa Cline Ryckman

Interests

Teaching

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

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

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 .