Jonathan Pinckney is a Senior Researcher for the Program on Nonviolent Action at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), where he conducts applied research on the intersection of nonviolent action, peacebuilding, and democratization. He is the author of numerous publications on nonviolent action in leading academic journals and popular outlets. His recently published first book is From Dissent to Democracy: The Promise and Peril of Civil Resistance Transitions, from Oxford University Press. Dr. Pinckney has been with USIP since December 2019. Prior to working at USIP he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he supervised the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns project. He received his PhD in 2018 from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.