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Welcome to the show. As we gear up for Election Day in America, there are two uncomfortable

possibilities we all need to grapple with. The first is that we likely won't have a result

on the 5th of November. Several battleground states

won't start counting absentee ballots until that morning, so it's almost guaranteed that we

will be waiting on key results until at least November 6th. Given how close we expect this

race to be, there's a good chance we won't have a winner for a while longer than many might expect.

The other possibility is that regardless of the results, the vote itself will be contested.

The side that losers may dispute the election plunging the country into days of uncertainty.

There may be protests, there might even be violence.

This latter possibility of violence isn't new in elections around the world.

It happens quite often, in fact, and so there's an entire body of literature on how violence

plays out, why it happens,

and how it is eventually calmed down.

My guest today has studied civil wars around the world her entire career.

Barbara F. Walter has spent time in places like Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and Ireland,

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