Understanding Armed Groups
A list of accounts analyzing and studying armed groups across types and regions to generate insight into the many reasons for violent mobilization.
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@ethuin.bsky.social
@gauthiermarchais.bsky.social
Researcher at the Institute of Development studies. Views are my own. ‘Seule la route connaît le secret’
@salvgio.bsky.social
Freelance Photojournalist | Lubero dynamics | mapping until the end | migrantssicily
@weigand.bsky.social
Co-Director, Centre on Armed Groups I Research Associate, LSE & IHEID I ✏️📚: Waiting for Dignity (http://bit.ly/3DY2QhB) I Conflict & Transnational Crime I Handbook of Smuggling
@justinpearce.bsky.social
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5 Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social Vegan
@azzab.bsky.social
Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
@jamesworrall.bsky.social
Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies @ the University of Leeds. Specialist in the Gulf and Levant, Conflict, Order, Global Governance etc. Co-Editor Civil Wars https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/112/dr-james-worrall
@cvoyvodic.bsky.social
Lecturer in Peace Studies at University of Bradford | conflict crime and development | civilian agency and local order
@alexwaterman.bsky.social
Order in Civil Wars, Counterinsurgency, Ceasefires, NE India, Co-Editor of Civil Wars Journal. Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford. Guitars, Leeds United FC
@andrewlebovich.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute. Post-doc with with the Danish Institute for International Studies. PhD in African History from Columbia University. Learning and writing about the Sahel, North Africa, and France.
@corinnajentzsch.com
Political Violence, Civil War, African Politics, Security Studies, Fieldwork Ethics, Gender | Political Scientist @Leiden University | Author of "Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique" (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108936026)
@rtapscott.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in IR, University of Glasgow. Studying political violence, authoritarianism, research ethics governance (IRBs!) and Uganda. Also reviews editor at Civil Wars.
@pstaniland.bsky.social
UChicago political scientist, amateur bee photographer, Carnegie South Asia nonresident scholar, despairing Bulls fan, public school parent, etc. http://www.paulstaniland.com
@afghanopoly.bsky.social
Associate Prof @RadboudPol @CICAM_RU - @FBAFolke Research Working Groups 2023-2027 - PhD @PoliSciatNU @sciencespo - political violence, NSAGs, #Afghanistan
@deacurtis.bsky.social
Global politics, peace and conflict studies, African politics, peace interventions, African Great Lakes. At POLIS, the Centre of African Studies and Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
@htamm.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews. Research on revolutionary leaders, external support for rebel groups, and armed group fragmentation.
@ashleyajackson.bsky.social
Co-director at The Centre on Armed Groups @armedgroups l Nairobi
@dinomahtani.bsky.social
Independent researcher and writer, focused mainly on African affairs. Formerly CrisisGroup, UN, FT, Reuters, Guardian. PhD candidate at LSE.
@bertsuykens.bsky.social
@pierreboisselet.bsky.social
Coordonnateur des recherches sur la violence à Ebuteli, partenaire du Groupe d'études sur le Congo (GEC) de l'Université de New-York (NYU). Toujours avec le Baromètre sécuritaire du Kivu. Ex- Jeune Afrique. RT≠approbation #RDC #DRC 🇨🇩
@adambaczko.bsky.social
CNRS Researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI) of Sciences Po. Civil Wars, Law and Politics, in Syria, Afghanistan and Mali. All publication on https://cv.hal.science/adam-baczko
@maggiedwyer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh; Research on military and politics in Africa, peacekeeping, conflict, interventions.
@kristoftiteca.bsky.social
Professor @iobua.bsky.social, @uantwerpen.be Senior Associate Fellow @egmontinstitute.bsky.social Researching conflict, governance and geopolitics in Central & Eastern Africa DRC / Uganda www.kristoftiteca.com
@tanguyq.bsky.social
PhD. Polical Science / Docteur en Science Politique - Social dynamics of violence in Burkina Faso and Mali. Postdoc - Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP) - Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. Private security in Africa.
@kvlassen.bsky.social
Director of Conflict Research Group • Professor at Ghent University • civil war • armed groups • international intervention • cycling
@debos.bsky.social
Prof. of Political Science. University of Paris Nanterre @uparisnanterre.bsky.social - ISP Writing on war, tech, gender, postcolonialism Completing a book on biometrics in Africa She/her https://www.marielledebos.com/en/about/
@johnalechner.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, amateur linguist. DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS out with Bloomsbury March 2025. BEGINNER’S CHECHEN out with Hippocrene https://www.johnlechnerauthor.com/
@zaz.bsky.social
professor of international relations | studies armed conflict and social change
@timglawion.bsky.social
Senior researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg Subjective security, conflict, development / Centrafrique, Lebanon, Somaliland, Haiti Book: Security Arena in Africa https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/staff/glawion-dr-tim
@joshuacraze.bsky.social
Writer | Bylines: @nplusonemag @nybooks @NewLeftReview @AJEnglish etc. | Fellow @typeinvestigate | Writing a book for @FitzcarraldoEds
@adamsandor.bsky.social
Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.
@judithverweijen.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Utrecht University. Researching militarization, resource conflict & violence at the intersection of conflict studies, political ecology & geography. Focus on eastern DRC.
@vincentfoucher.bsky.social
West African politics maniac. Bissau-Conakry-Dakar-Banjul & all things Boko Haram. https://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/membre/vincent-foucher/ https://afriquexxi.info/ https://polaf.hypotheses.org/la-revue .
@yguichaoua.bsky.social
Political Violence • Sahel Politics • Editorial Board of afriquexxi.info • Chronique Sahel dans Libé • Public appearances and interventions in media: https://bit.ly/2J4mT5I • FR & ENG
@wlacher.bsky.social
Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation (2020); co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya (2023). https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
@ryanmofarrell.bsky.social
Non-state actors and conflicts / mostly East Africa & the Levant / geolocations / Ohioan / Defections Operations Coordinator at the Bridgeway Foundation / @SAISHopkins alum
@hilarymatfess.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, biking, and my dogs
@crisisgroup.org
We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
@ethuin.bsky.social
Researcher, writer, scholar and investigator. Recovering academic and UN expert. Hiphop and cooking aficionado. Kujenga amani lazima kuelewa vita.