SASUF at Science Forum, Pretoria. www.sasuf.org

The Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-11 on Jarstad, et al, eds., Relational Peace Practices H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-11 Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo, eds., Relational Peace Practices. Manchester University Press…

Great to see this roundtable and reviews out! Looking forward to more continued conversations around peace research’s way forward!
With M Åkebo and A Jarstad
Thanks to @h-diplo.bsky.social @tlyons.bsky.social @lkriesberg.bsky.social @emmamurphy.bsky.social Paul Diehl
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@skytteprize.bsky.social

The Johan Skytte Prize laureate Herbert Kitschelt

How can SDGs promote peace? @stefandoring.bsky.social

What are the interlinkages between peace and SDGs? @stefandoring.bsky.social

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

When, who and how can the Russian invasion of Ukraine end?

Georgia’s Authoritarian Drift The West should not let Tbilisi slip back into Russia’s orbit.

Read @ccaryl.bsky.social on how the rise of the Georgian Dream party has contributed to Georgia’s authoritarian turn—and what Moscow stands to gain if Tbilisi pivots decisively away from the West:

In 2024, a few remarkable events offered a glimmer of hope, proving that democracy, while vulnerable, has an inherent capacity for resilience. Nowhere was this resilience more evident than in Senegal, South Korea, and India. #MyPiece National Herald, 29 December 2024.

How Turkey Won the Syrian Civil War Assad’s downfall is a boon for Erdogan—at least for now.

The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime is likely to provide Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with freer rein in Syria—but it will also heighten the risk of instability and extremism that could spill over into Turkey, writes @gonultol.bsky.social.

Tusen år av historia utraderad i Gaza I Gaza har moskéer, muséer och badhus förstörts. ”Aldrig tidigare har kulturarv attackerats på det här viset”, säger arkeologen Marc-André Haldimann.

www.dn.se/kultur/tusen...

Listening to the nobel laureate in economics!

In Swedish. About the future of Ukraine.

PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change

Less than 1 week left to apply for our UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop 2025. 📢
Get your abstracts in by 8 December here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...
We look forward to seeing you in February in London 🙂 Feel free to share in your networks as well!

Explosion at Ibar-Lepenac Canal: Kosovo Authorities Label Attack a ‘Criminal Terrorist Act,’ Blame Serbia; Serbian Officials Point to Kurti’s Regime - KoSSev In the evening hours of November 29, an explosive device detonated at the Ibar-Lepenac water canal in the village of Donje Varage, Zubin Potok municipality, causing severe damage to this critical infr...

Potentially quite dangerous development. This water supply is fundamental for Kosovo.

kossev.info/explosion-at...

Apply to the PhD program in political at Uppsala University! Application open now!

www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Here we go! Peace research in Swen conference.

Getting ready for PRIS conference. I love travelling by train. Much more civilized than travelling by airplane. In so many ways.

Det bortglömda kriget i Sudan - Förmiddag med Bland alla konflikter i världen finns det en som paradoxalt nog är en av de värsta, och samtidigt en av de mest underbevakade. I Sudan slåss nu två krigsherrar ...

Listen to this (in Swedish) about Sudan with excellent Johan Broche! sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/det-...

Important op-ed on keeping our eyes on more than one or two armed conflicts.

Conflictsky

Maori march against indigenous rights bill in one of New Zealand’s largest-ever protests People take to streets of Wellington in their thousands in anger at proposed legislation to ‘re-interpret’ country’s founding treaty

A sign of a strong democracy is that conflict can exist and does lead to neither physical violence nor a collapse of the entire political system. In Aoteroa/New Zealand about 30000 to 45000 Maori marched against a draft bill undermining Maori rights

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Congratulations! Looks like a very promising project!

Can you please add me to the list? I am prof at Uppsala Uni and working on e.g relational peace, varieties of peace, Cyprus, Kosovo and South Africa

That is me! Will probably not post that much…