I study politics in conflict settings and divided societies.
Much of my current work focuses on civil resistance, asking how group identities and social divisions affect mobilization, public reactions, and the ability to generate political change. Related work examines when and how people collaborate and build coalitions across group lines. Another strand of my work focuses on how violence unfolds during conflict and on the broader political legacies of combat.
Devorah S. Manekin
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I received my PhD in Political Science from UCLA. In 2025, I received an ERC Consolidator Grant to study how polarization shapes civil resistance.
Together with Roni Porat, I co-direct the Inequality and Social Change Lab at the Hebrew University, where we study how social environments, group identities, and intergroup relations shape conflict, cooperation, and social change.
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POLRES
How affective polarization shapes trajectories of nonviolent resistance
A five-year research program funded by the European Research Council, 2026–2031.
Around the world, nonviolent mobilization is surging even as nonviolent campaigns are succeeding less often. POLRES asks whether deepening hostility between political camps helps explain this paradox, and what it means for the prospects of contemporary protest movements.
