🎓 Introducing the 2026 CRS Emerging Scholars cohort!
Dale Pankhurst · Fareeda Khalifa · Genevieve Kotarska · Margaux Dandrifosse · William Underwood
We’ll be spotlighting each scholar in the coming months 👀
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Wishing all our members and friends a peaceful holiday season and a hopeful start to 2026.
Thank you for being part of the CRS community.
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🎓 CRS is accepting submissions for the Cedric Smith Prize 2026 — best paper by a grad student or recent PhD in conflict research.
🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jan 2026
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⏳ Just a few days left!
Applications for the Sidney Bailey Peace Prize close on 1 November 2025.
The fund supports research and practical work aligned with the values of peace, justice, and conflict transformation.
🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/nyMhxsO
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👏 We’re excited to share that Dr Ezenwa Olumba has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship!
His project explores cognitive immobility, migration, and mental health in adolescent asylum seekers through an interdisciplinary lens.
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🌍 Are you engaged in peace and conflict research, practice, or policy?
Join the Conflict Research Society (CRS) to connect with a vibrant, global community of scholars and practitioners.
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New publication by Adrian Florea and Reyko Huang in International Studies Quarterly:
“Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories” — originally presented at #CRS2024.
The article examines how governance operates in de facto states and contested areas.
🔓 Free access: buff.ly/A4D2cPX
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🎓 A huge congratulations to Finn Klebe for successfully passing his viva at University College London (UCL)!
We’re delighted to celebrate this important academic achievement with him and wish him continued success in his research journey.
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📢 Interested in conflict and peace research? Join a global community of academics, students, and practitioners committed to interdisciplinary dialogue.
✨ Network, publish, and participate in events through the Conflict Research Society.
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2/2 📝 Good Tune Theory: An Exploration of LGBTQIA+ Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
📍 Conflict Resolution Quarterly
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📢 Call for Papers!
The Journal of Perpetrator Research is seeking contributions for a special issue on ‘Dehumanization and Violence’, guest edited by Prof. Kjell Anderson.
🗓️ Full papers due: 15 Dec 2025
🔗 Details & submit
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🚀 Early career researcher? CRS is your platform to connect with peers, share your work, and find support.
✅ Mentoring
✅ Emerging Scholars Initiative
✅ Annual conference and panels
🔗 Find your place: conflictresearchsociety.org
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🔥 New from Kai M. Thaler: From Insurgent to Incumbent (Comparative Politics)
How does ideology shape rebel governance & statebuilding after victory in civil wars?
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🤝 CRS is where ideas meet action.
From grassroots peacebuilding to global security research, our members shape debates and build connections across disciplines.
✨ Discover workshops, book prizes, mentoring, and more.
📌 Join the community: conflictresearchsociety.org
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New from Ezenwa Olumba: A New Perspective on Immobility Amidst Adversity
This open-access article introduces a framework for understanding why people—especially indigenous communities—stay in conflict-affected areas.
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🎨 How do culture and heritage shape conflict and peace?
Giuditta Fontana edited a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics exploring these questions across Bosnia, Syria, Ukraine & Northern Ireland.
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📰 From peacebuilding strategies to armed group typologies and cultural narratives—our #CRSmembers have been active across the globe this month.
🧠 Explore the latest research, events & reflections in our newsletter.
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📚 New from Florian Weigand in Journal of Global Security Studies:
“Agency during Armed Conflict: Everyday Life under Competing Authorities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State”
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📣 Anne Bajo presented her work on Malaysia’s role in Southeast Asian conflict resolution at BISA’s “Local-level Peacebuilding: Between Theory and Practice” RTD in London.
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New from Simone Papale: Has Biden’s Africa policy really changed course?
Democracy promotion meets persistent remote interventionism.
📖 International Peacekeeping
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📢 New from Ana Lucía Peláez: How media frames shape resistance to renewable energy in Guatemala.
Alta Verapaz & Huehuetenango case studies.
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🕊️ In EJIR, Jennifer Hodge explores “disaggregated mediation” in Myanmar.
How does conflict fragmentation affect peace outcomes?
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💬 Deals vs agreements in peace discourse — why it matters.
John Gledhill on language & peacemaking in The Conversation.
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⚠️ Ezenwa Olumba & co-authors on Nigeria’s farmer-herder conflict and the politics of response.
📖 Human Affairs
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🧠 In her recent review for International Affairs, Charlotte Plews examines God, Guns and Sedition by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware — a timely analysis of far-right extremism in the US.
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#Extremism #BookReview #CRSmembers
In International Affairs, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos challenges dominant justifications of war through a pacifist lens in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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What can art teach us about resistance?
Nicky Armstrong reviews Art as Demonstration in International Affairs, exploring how creative practice becomes political action.
📖 Read the review: buff.ly/Bwz42Rx
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