Nonviolence 🕊️
Scholars and strategists on civil resistance and protest 🪧
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@shaonta.bsky.social
It’s pronounced Shay-On-Tay! Asst. Prof of Sociology & AAAS at Dartmouth! I study Black People, Black Political Activism/Resistance, & Black Religion! #Jesus ✝️ #BLM ✊🏾 #ΖφΒ 💙 #SocAF ✨ Seattle 🌲☔️ ➡️ New England/NH🌲🍁 www.Linktree.com/ShaontaTheSociologist
@devawo.bsky.social
Politics Prof., author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
@jamesozden.bsky.social
Founder of socialchangelab.org, doing social movement research. Previously organising grassroots climate & animal advocacy movements. Now working in philanthropy to help end factory farming.
@laurathowal.bsky.social
Environmental social scientist @ Yale University (YPCCC) Working on climate activism, plant-based diets, messaging experiments etc. https://lathowal.wixsite.com/laura-thomas-walters
@fisherdanar.bsky.social
Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | Chair, Political Soc, ASA | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on Saving Ourselves: go.ted.com/danarfisher
@charliejgardner.bsky.social
Conservationist, activist, writer and researcher, rebelling against extinction
@profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social
Sociologist at USC. Carnegie Fellow & Harvard Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow. Writer. Thinker. 📚Author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.
@christiandavenport.bsky.social
prof of human understanding, conflict/violence, peace & (soon) love at the university of michigan but more broadly a thinker, writer, human, lover of life/freedom/power & artist (not necessarily in that order). for more: www.christiandavenport.com
@laginagause.bsky.social
UC San Diego associate professor in political science. I think and write about race and class inequality, political representation and protesting in the United States. Howard University and University of Michigan alumna.
@maxberger.bsky.social
Just happy to be here. Co-Founder IfNotNow, More Perfect Union, Momentum Training Institute. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc.
@daveomitchell.bsky.social
Climate comms, polycrisis, solarpunk. Knowledge mobilization lead @ Cascade Institute, co-editor Beautiful Trouble: Toolbox for Revolution & Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South. Self-owned views.
@markengler.bsky.social
Writer based in Philly, author of This Is An Uprising, editorial board at Dissent. He/him. Subscribe to my newsletter at: https://whirlwinddispatches.substack.com/
@onglynette.bsky.social
http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
@jdmeyers.bsky.social
Theologian, nonviolence theorist, adjunct professor at DePaul University. Nonviolent resistance, Christianity, Christian Nationalism, labor, teaching, academic libraries, and U.S. higher education.
@hahrie.bsky.social
Director of @SNFAgoraJHU, Professor of PolSci, Director of P3 Lab @JohnsHopkins. Studying organizing, movements, civic engagement, democracy. All views my own.
@oonuch.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative & Ukrainian Pols UoM Democracy in wartime, GeoPols EU DisInfo Vote Protest Identity Polls 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇦🇷🇪🇺 📚Zelensky Effect 📚Mapping Mass Mobilization Visit. Prof College D’Europe Prev Oxford Nuffield/St Antonys; Harvard; UofT
@lakauffman.bsky.social
Organizer + writer. She/her. Books: DIRECT ACTION and HOW TO READ A PROTEST. Newsletter: lakauffman.substack.com
@kirstenhan.com
🇸🇬 Writer and activist. Author of 'The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope'. Everything Elf at https://wethecitizens.net. Managing Editor of @mekongreview.com. Member of @transformjusticesg.bsky.social and @adpan.bsky.social.
@efetokdemir.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof at Bilkent IR, Director of Research @cfppr.bsky.social, Visiting Scholar at UChicago. PhD @bingpolisci.bsky.social Research on peace&conflict processes, strategic use of force, foreign policy & public opinion, Türkiye www.efetokdemir.com
@alexhinton.bsky.social
Distinguished Prof. of #Anthropology at Rutgers & UNESCO Chair in #Genocide #Prevention / mass violence, Cambodia, #law & society, #extremism, (de)polarization, #transitional justice, peace/conflict https://sasn.rutgers.edu/alex-hinton Twitter @AlexLHinton
@ilkerkalin.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar at Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS) | Interested in nonviolent resistance, gender, political violence, and military
@purekimminess.bsky.social
True to the Kimminess Conflict/methods/pol econ teaching and rocking research methods crsslab.com "Doom scrolling (it's back again)" "check it, wreck it, let's begin" "I'm incredible....cuz I does what I do." -Craig Mack
@biffpm.bsky.social
postdoc @ Harvard Weatherhead 24-25 & asst prof @ Yale 25-. Networks, contentious politics, MENA. Peripatetic product of the garden state. https://biffpm.github.io/
@saliltripathi.bsky.social
Writer of books / drinker of coffee / hater of cilantro / Senior advisor - @ihrb.bsky.social / Senior associate - @cisl.cam.ac.uk / Contributing editor - @indexoncensorship.org, Singapore Unbound / Board member - PENinternational.bsky.social
@williamlawrence.bsky.social
Tenant organizer with MI Rent Is Too Damn High 🔴 Co-founder Sunrise Movement 🌅 Host Hegemonicon Podcast at Convergence Magazine🪢Lansing, Michigan
@edebruin.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
@matthewcebul.bsky.social
Political scientist studying civil resistance, democratic erosion, and US foreign policy in the Middle East. Lead Research Fellow at HKS Nonviolent Action Lab; formerly US Institute of Peace. Lives for Korra the cat, epic fantasy, and "draw a card."
@bryanfarrell.bsky.social
@simsbry.bsky.social
Director at Humanity United. Philanthropy and Non-Profit Leader I Human Rights Defender I Systems Navigator
@szunes.bsky.social
professor, parent, interests in peace, human rights, U.S. foreign policy
@hardymerriman.bsky.social
Independent consultant focused on nonviolent civil resistance, human rights, democracy, and countering political violence. Formerly led the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC). Contact via my website: hardymerriman.com
@ruthbraunstein.bsky.social
Sociologist. Religion, culture, politics | Director Meanings of Democracy Lab | Books: PROPHETS & PATRIOTS, RELIGION & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM | Next book: MY TAX DOLLARS
@belengonzalez.bsky.social
Head of Research for International Security, Peace, and Conflict at the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich | https://belengonzalezsimon.weebly.com Guest Professor, University of Konstanz | DFG Project: The Dynamics of Mass Protest Event
@berghoffnd.bsky.social
We believe violent conflict is not inevitable. We’re an independent, non-profit organisation creating space for peace around the world.
@rbkhoury.bsky.social
assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest first grader. www.ranakhoury.com
@oliverkaplan.bsky.social
Prof @JosefKorbelSchool.bsky.social @UofDenver 📚Books: RESISTING WAR (2017) SPEAKING SCIENCE TO POWER (2024) Nonviolent action & Colombianista | Research + Policymaking Ethics | @KorbelAsylum ⛷️🚵♂️ linktr.ee/oliverkaplan
@isaksvensson.bsky.social
Dag Hammarskjöld Professor in peace and conflict research, Uppsala University. Research on mediation, religion and conflict, civil resistance.
@thebraith.bsky.social
Political scientist, School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona. Research on concentration camps, refugees and forced migration, violent and nonviolent conflict.
@deborahavant.bsky.social
Professor @josefkorble @UofDenver | global politics | climate | technology | security | human rights | democracy | pragmatism. I know, it's a lot. Also ISA, hiking, baking, travel, and #roseistoocute she/her deborahavant.com
@kaimthaler.bsky.social
Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com
@felixbethke.bsky.social
Political Scientist at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF, @priforg.bsky.social) Tweets on DataScience, Econometrics and African Politics Website: fbethke.netlify.app
@felixhaass.bsky.social
Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt University | political violence & democracy | the inner workings of dictatorships https://felixhaass.de/
@desireenilsson.bsky.social
Professor in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Studying civil war, conflict resolution, civil society, inclusion.
@alexchristoy.bsky.social
Reader in Politics & International Relations. Editor of Journal of Pacifism & Nonviolence (@jpacnv.bsky.social). Consumer/sharer of politics. Foreigner everywhere. Views my own.
@mariannedahl.bsky.social
Senior researcher @PRIOresearch and deputy editor @JPR_journal, Non-violence, security force behavior, democratization & peace processes. Opinions are my own. Webpage: www.mariannedahl.com
@marieberry.bsky.social
Director and Associate Prof at https://korbel.du.edu/sie Convener: https://www.theinclusivegloballeadershipinitiative.org/ Research: https://www.wrawproject.org/
@sebastianvanbaalen.se
Associate Professor at the Dep. of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University (@uupeace.bsky.social). Researching dynamics of civil war, rebel governance, civil resistance, electoral violence, postwar violence, Côte d’Ivoire. www.sebastianvanbaalen.se
@zeitzoff.bsky.social
Professor @au-spa.bsky.social Political Violence | Political Psychology New book "Nasty Politics" https://www.zeitzoff.com/book-project.html
@marquezxavier.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization"
@lisacumin.bsky.social
Works in & around conflict grappling. (Local peacebuilding • Nonviolence • Peace practice & thinking.) Worries in the valley, dreams on the moors. Personal account.
@snepstad.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico (USA), studying social movements, revolutions, religion, civil resistance - and guardian of way too many pets and plants
@paologerbaudo.bsky.social
Senior researcher in Social Science, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Interested in social movements, populism, political organisation, technology.
@lucagervasoni.bsky.social
Director @novact.bsky.social, professor @uocuniversitat.bsky.social and member of the Democracy and Belonging Forum of the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social "La loi interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts”
@mariajstephan.bsky.social
Civil resistance, nonviolent action, social movements, democracy, authoritarianism, political violence, peacebuilding.
@jannisgrimm.bsky.social
Repression/resistance/(non)violence • Director of Research Unit Radical Spaces @interactfu.bsky.social • pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will • https://www.jannisgrimm.com/
@spaceforpeace.bsky.social
Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof at Kent State (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
@mariaressa.bsky.social
@ntnsndr.in
Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
@owasow.bsky.social
Asst Prof, UC Berkeley, Political Science. Study protests, stats & race: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of
@rubencampos.bsky.social
South Asia, Democracy & Nonviolent Movements Scholar. @clubdemadrid.bsky.social Programs Director @rielcano.bsky.social Senior Fellow. Proud father-28 years in love with my wife. https://clubmadrid.org/who/secretariat/campos-ruben/
@rogerhallam.com
Cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil. Sign up for articles and resistance at https://rogerhallam.com/#/portal/signup
@george-lakoff.com
Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
@berglundoscar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Policy Studies, University of Bristol, co-editor @policy-politics.bsky.social, Co-President UCU Bristol, research climate change activism, criminalisation of protest, civil disobedience, critical political economy
@chenoweth.bsky.social
Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
@novact.bsky.social
Waging #nonviolence . Confronting #authoritarianism. Building #peace. Join us https://novact.org/colabora/
@civilresistance.bsky.social
We support research, develop educational resources, & share knowledge about how nonviolent civil resistance movements win rights, freedom, & justice.
@wagingnonviolence.org
Original reporting and analysis on movements for justice around the world. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://wagingnonviolence.org/subscribe/
@giantwhispers.bsky.social
Social Change Strategist. Story Changer. Movement-Builder. Leadership Coach. Co-founder Center for Story-based Strategy, Co-author Re:Imagining Change (PM Press 2017) Fighting for a Just Future on a Livable Planet
@robinboardman.com
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