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Daniel Arnon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. He is a principal researcher for the Political Terror Scale (PTS), a global index measuring state violations of physical integrity rights. His research focuses on conflict processes between individuals and the state, including terrorism, insurgency, human rights violations, and repression dynamics. Arnon holds a PhD from Emory University (2021), M.Sc. from the London School of Economics (2015, with distinction), and dual B.A. degrees from the University of North Carolina Asheville (2014, summa cum laude in Political Science and Economics).
His work addresses topics such as lone actor political violence, biases in human rights reporting, identity politics and repression tolerance, and social cohesion in conflict zones like the Israeli-Palestinian context. He has published in top journals including the British Journal of Political Science, International Security, and Journal of Conflict Resolution. His recent research received the Best Paper Award from the APSA Conflict Processes Section in 2020 for work on Palestinian village displacement during the 1948 War.
- Grants: Center for Israel Education ($17,000, 2019–2020)
- Teaching: Courses on human rights, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and international relations
- Languages: Hebrew (native), English (proficient), French (intermediate), Arabic (basic)
Arnon’s interdisciplinary approach combines experiments, geographic data, and archival research. He advises on PTS methodology and contributes to policy discussions on conflict dynamics and human rights accountability.
