Jonathan Pinckney is a Program Officer and Research Lead for the Program on Nonviolent Action at the United States Institute of Peace and the author of From Dissent to Democracy: The Promise and Peril of Civil Resistance Transitions (2020). His research focuses on the intersection of nonviolent action, democratisation and inclusive peace processes, and has been published in outlets such as Foreign Policy and the Washington Post, and journals such as International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Peace Research, and Conflict Management and Peace Science. He received his PhD from the University of Denver in 2018.