We apply this approach to the nexus of constitution-making and peace mediation, highlighting that many tensions between the two processes are manageable with diligent analysis and dilemma management strategies. Also, the potential for synergies is larger than often thought.
In conflict contexts, third parties with different values, skills, and expertise come together to work on closely interlinked topics - the HDP nexus is only one example. Our new study offers a systematic approach to improve the interplay of intersecting third party interventions tinyurl.com/4fpmawr6
The website of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is down and with that an important source of knowledge. Does anyone know of an archive of the USIP publications or efforts to develop something like that? 🙏
Do you have fundraising experience and want to apply that expertise to an #NGO environment?
👉Apply now and join our Strategic Partnerships team in #Berlin to help support fundraising opportunities and policy developments at Berghof: brnw.ch/21wQk4g
If you know of recent PhDs/postdocs with interest in quant. (ideally mixed-method) research on pol violence/repression/armed actors PLEASE direct them to me! Am looking to appoint Humboldt Fellows to work with me for a year. Esp looking for ppl from Global South. No German citizens/German degree.
‼️ Hiring ‼️
Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich
📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)
Application deadline in early March.
Job ads & details:
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We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
Two fully-funded PhD-positions available on a pressing but often overlooked issue: how to counter jihadi insurgencies in Africa? Can't wait to see the results of this project!
📣 Attention all peace and conflict scholars and practitioners! The call for the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference 2025 is out! Get your paper, panel and workshop submissions in by 17th January 😀
conflictresearchsociety.org/call-for-pap...
📚 Are you building a dataset? Simplify the coding with your own data collection app! I've written a tutorial on how to build an app in #R #Shiny that allows you to input, save, and edit data in an interactive online environment.
➡️ www.sebastianvanbaalen.se/uploads/tuto...
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My work contributes to the integration of macro- and micro-level research in conflict studies by explaining how the network structure conditions the behaviour of armed groups & vice versa. Curious to learn more? Check out the full manuscript: 📖 tinyurl.com/mr3akah9 5/5
🔁 *Within* the civil war conflict zone, local conflicts are almost absent due to the massive disruption of everyday life and rebel governance. Importantly, these developments feed back into the civil war by overall strengthening the insurgents. 4/5
🔍The government prioritizes the civil war in its resource allocation due to the perceived threat. This creates a power vacuum elsewhere, allowing preexisting local tensions to escalate. But: 3/5
🕸️ Using mixed-methods Social Network Analysis, I mapped the ripple effects of the Boko Haram conflict on Nigeria's broader network of violence. By combining quantitative data from ACLED with 118 field interviews from Northwest and Northeast Nigeria, I found: 2/5
🤔 In #Nigeria, conflicts between informal armed groups like #bandits & militias have been rising in the shadow of the Boko Haram insurgency. This led to the central question of my PhD: how do civil wars & local conflicts influence each other? 👇 tinyurl.com/mr3akah9 1/5
Violent conflicts over land and resources happen almost exclusively in civil war-affected areas. @cwiehler.bsky.social & @sebvanbaalen.bsky.social argue peacebuilders must involve civil war parties in conflict resolution — and even see them as potential conflict management partners
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How can Nigeria’s banditry crisis with its core element of school kidnappings be stopped? Medinat Malefakis and I discuss potential ways forward in our Policy Perspective. We propose a mix of dialogue, economic interventions, and enforcement tinyurl.com/4f7wd5kz
Overview of ISA program, indicating the panel on Thursday 8:15am
Getting ready for #isa2024 🧳🤩Looking forward to meeting old and new friends, and an exciting panel on communal conflicts. Please reach out if you want to grab a coffee or drink & chat about conflict dynamics, network analysis, armed conflict in Nigeria, ceasefires...
How can one demonstrate the effectiveness of #mediation in a changing geopolitical landscape? It was a pleasure to discuss this w/ donors and practitioners at the M&E roundtable hosted by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. Very happy I got to present on the potential of network analysis!
the amazing @janakrause.bsky.social (University of Oslo), Sophia Dawkins (EUI), Natasja Rupesinghe (Oxford), & Mikael Naghizadeh (Oxford). Can't wait!
Just booked my flights to San Francisco & already so excited for ISA 2024! 😍 We have a fantastic panel on the dynamics of *communal conflict* coming up, featuring insights from 🇳🇬, 🇲🇱, and 🇸🇸 & a critical discussion of the use of remote sensing and surveys to research this topic. Speakers include 1/
It's a long discussed problem that internships are supposedly crucial for your CV but often unpaid. Yet, the irony that organizations, which refuse to compensate interns, exclusively recognize 'paid employment' as valid work experience is outright infuriating!
I loved Identitti too, it sparked so many interesting and heated debates with my friends!
Favourite books I read in 2023.
New to bluesky & hence time for a (re)introduction: I'm a PhD candidate at ETH Zurich, working on the link btw civil wars and communal conflicts (particularly in 🇳🇬). The second pillar of my work focuses on ceasefires. Looking forward to engaging with old and new friends here 😄