Peace & conflict scholars Part I
A starter pack with scholars working on issues related to peace, armed conflict, and political violence. DM me if you want to be included.
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@sebastianvanbaalen.se
@dylan-odriscoll.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Peace & Conflict at Centre for Peace and Security (CPS), Coventry University | Associate Senior Fellow @sipri.org | Drivers of conflict and pathways to peace | Bridging academia & policy
@arielzellman.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University Co-director, Religion and State Project Territorial Conflict, Politics & Religion, Extremist Social Movements New Book: Religious Minorities at Risk, Oxford, w Matthias Basedau & Jonathan Fox
@iamnemeth.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Oklahoma State Univ., Union College alum, Iowa PhD. Probably just reposts of pol violence stuff, Simpsons, Arsenal, BBQ, and dogs
@igallino.bsky.social
International Humanitarian Law | Protection of Civilians | Ethics in War. Advisor@ICRC. PhD Candidate @University of Helsinki, researching how International Humanitarian law is currently being (mis)used.
@ilaydaonder.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M, studying political violence, civil conflict, and rebel organizations. https://www.ilaydaonder.com/
@chadmbriggs.bsky.social
Disaster risk & crisis management professor at AIM in Manila, hybrid warfare & disinfo researcher, purveyor of climate security and undesirable futures. RPG writer. Past lives in Alaska, Kosovo, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere 🇨🇦
@sverke.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Political Science at University of Oslo, Norway. Working on conflict recurrence and multilateral peace operations.
@serhattutkal.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher (political violence, dehumanization, racism, digital platforms) - Secihti, Mexico https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kLIkAhEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Main social media account: https://fediscience.org/@SerhatTutkal
@joehud.bsky.social
Associate Professor at @setonhall.bsky.social Diplomacy. Teaches conflict, nationalism, methods. Researches separatism, diplomacy, civilians in conflict. Sabbatical-ing as a CFR-fellow/Senate staffer. Yes I will belay you.
@jbf1755.bsky.social
Childless bird lady. Historian of “early” US politics & culture; howl re: democracy on a daily basis. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird. https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
@warandcoffee.bsky.social
Assistant professor (a glorified postdoc) working on child protection in 🇺🇦, 🇺🇳 peacekeeping, and my third coffee of the day. Views strictly my own, etc. 🇨🇦 is home, PhD GU 🇸🇪, from NM 🇺🇲. He/him.
@anikaoettler.bsky.social
sociologist @zfk-mr.bsky.social. peace & conflict. transitional justice, social inequality, gender. latin america. colombia. celebrating spring flowers and birds.
@thecynicist.bsky.social
Political analyst focused on global conflict and security, Afghanistan, the Middle East and US politics. Purveyor of quality nonsense. Rare Afghan with two names. Previously HRW, ICTJ, Amnesty, OSF and ECFR. Always clean on OPSEC. "All the pieces matter."
@isadeli.bsky.social
Researcher, Policy Advisor | United States Foreign Affairs and the Middle East | Security and Defense Policy | PhD in International Relations | usinmena.substack.com
@lindsaypcohn.bsky.social
Political Scientist (all views own), Visiting Assoc Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
@danigilbert.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at Northwestern, studying hostage taking in international security. Director with Bridging the Gap, contributor to Good Authority. She/her. Hiking, biking, mostly plants 🌱 #COYS
@vfnewby.bsky.social
Asst Prof | Leiden University | Author of ‘Peacekeeping in South Lebanon’ | International Relations | UN | Gender | WPS | Middle East | Peacekeeping | WIIS Netherlands | CCL | Imm Joudeh | She/Her | Website: vfnewby.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.
@tobiasrisse.bsky.social
Postdoc in Political Science at University of St. Gallen | Civil Wars | Political Violence | Arms Control
@amobermeier.bsky.social
Ceasefires & gender | Currently PhDing & Civil War Paths Fellow | 🇨🇦🇩🇪 | Formerly at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) & Uppsala’s DPCR | FirstGen | She/Her amobermeier.squarespace.com
@brianjphillips.bsky.social
Terrorism, conflict, crime. @uniessexgovt. Via Ohio, Camp Lejeune, PGH, CDMX. Co-authored book: "Insurgent Terrorism." https://sites.google.com/site/brianjphillips/home
@justinscasey.bsky.social
Swarthmore VAP | Georgetown PhD | International Relations, Propaganda, Ideology, Power Politics, the Far Right | they/them | celiac | 1st gen, working class
@michael-spagat.bsky.social
Economist who studies war. Chair of Every Casualty Counts and former Chair of Action on Armed Violence. Obsessed with measurement.
@richardstupart.com
Lecturer @livuni. Conflict reporting, ethics, witnessing and the affective/emotional dimensions of war reporting. An ed @ Media, War & Conflict
@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
@georgekyris.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ POLSIS, University of Birmingham: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gov/kyris-george.aspx Chair: https://ecpr.eu/Group/statehood-sovereignty-conflict State recognition, international organisations, conflict, sovereignty.
@tlyons.bsky.social
Professor Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution. Student of civil wars and contentious politics, particularly in the Horn of Africa
@scrosenzweig.bsky.social
Political scientist studying political violence, ethnic politics, polarization, democratization and democratic erosion. Aspiring ski bum. Book: tinyurl.com/2z2r3rnw
@teraqerat.bsky.social
Research on Protests & Authoritarianism in Asia | Center for Conflict Studies Marburg | Coordinator BMBF project @postcolh.bsky.social | Principal Investigator DFG project @afpro.bsky.social More: tasyd.com teraqerat.substack.com
@timlongman.bsky.social
Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad. 2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
@juliangerez.com
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Columbia University and incoming Assistant Professor at UC Irvine studying criminal and political violence, law enforcement and public security juliangerez.com
@vukusiciva.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Int History @UniUtrecht / Visiting Research Fellow @WarStudies King's College London / Co-editing Perpetrator Series @CEUPress http://is.gd/qbE0VG / Loves dogs. I published a book on paramilitaries, out in English and Croatian now.
@armendbekaj.bsky.social
PhD. Researcher on Peace and Conflict, Nuclear Disarmament and Sanctions, Democracy and Autocracy.
@dinokrause.bsky.social
Postdoc at DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies); peace & conflict studies with focus on transnational jihadism
@maxineleis.bsky.social
@hannahhfrank.bsky.social
PhD student researching causes of armed conflict and conflict prediction at PaCE (Patterns of Conflict Emergence), Trinity College Dublin.
@rokos031.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Uppsala University. Research interests: transitional justice, reconciliation, social memory, and knowledge production in interventions.
@giacomocassano.bsky.social
@nielsterpstra.bsky.social
Universitair Docent in Conflictstudies | Oorlogs- en vredesvraagstukken | Radboud Universiteit @radboudpol.bsky.social
@sophiahatz.bsky.social
Researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Studies state repression, police misconduct, citizen perceptions, causal inference.
@aditimalik.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross. Author of Playing with Fire: Parties & Political Violence in Kenya & India (CUP 2024). Political Violence | GBV | Africa & S. Asia Boston - Delhi - Cape Town aditimalik.net
@bubaimrana.bsky.social
PhD Research Fellow, University of Oslo | USIP Fellow | University of Edinburgh Alum. Nigeria, social resilience, civilian agency, conflict, & local peace.
@bgiray.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at HfPMuenchen - TUM • Former DAAD PRIME Fellow • PhD in Political Science, University of Houston • Doing research on peace and conflict processes, civilian violence, UN peacekeeping🇺🇳 www.burakgiray.com
@andresuribe.bsky.social
Postdoc and incoming Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study democracy, the state, and conflict in the Americas. www.andresduribe.com
@tessadevereaux.bsky.social
Junior Research Fellow in Politics at New College, Oxford / Phd Cornell Government/ Conflict and Rebel Governance / Gender
@cvoyvodic.bsky.social
Lecturer in Peace Studies at University of Bradford | conflict crime and development | civilian agency and local order
@mariaamjad.bsky.social
PhD candidate @University of Genoa | Formerly: CICAM @radboudpol.bsky.social; CivilWarPaths; Unibo; LUMS | peace processes; rebel diplomacy; civil war; #Afghanistan; #Pakistan
@susannacampbell.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor @AU_SIS. Director @ripil_au, http://ripilab.com. Policy-engaged research and learning. Former UN/INGO/think tanker. Studying conflict and peace. www.susannacampbell.com
@romankrtsch.bsky.social
Political Scientist and Evaluator at DEval (German Institute for Development Evaluation) | formerly Uni Tübingen and Uni Konstanz | interested in protests, civil wars, development cooperation
@idarudolfsen.bsky.social
Senior researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo, desk editor at Journal of Peace Research. Mass mobilization, state repression, societal organizations, food insecurity, causal inference.
@sschutte.bsky.social
Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Editor of the Journal of Peace Research. I mostly focus on communal conflict, the effects of social media on politics, and geographic research methods.
@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
@maureenfubara.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, researching subnational electoral violence in Nigeria.
@irisv.bsky.social
Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt and PRIF civil conflict | peace negotiations | nonviolent action | conflict management | quantitative methods
@ashoswai.bsky.social
Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation Editor-in-Chief, 'Environment and Security' Journal (Sage) https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=AA64
@magnusoberg.bsky.social
Director of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program @ucdp.bsky.social Posts are personal and do not represent the UCDP or Uppsala University
@joribreslawski.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Researching conflict & aid. (Website: https://sites.google.com/view/joribreslawski)
@husneakgol.bsky.social
PhD candidate @UU_Peace women’s wartime mobilisation, post-war patriarchal backlash MA @uniessexgovt formerly @UNHCRTurkiye
@hathaonguyen.bsky.social
Last name Hà. IR PhD student at Vanderbilt, studying civil war dynamics using formal theory and network analysis, with a side of emotion in foreign policy. I have too many hobbies. #Rstats
@nadineansorg.bsky.social
PolIR • Kent • GIGA Hamburg • WIASN • Interests: post-conflict, security, feminism, cats, bikes • Transiberica 2023 • TransAtlantic Way 2023 • TCRNo8
@cbrandt.bsky.social
Berkeley Ph.D., Sylff Fellow at Uppsala University Scholar of civil conflict peace agreements and international interventions. Lost southerner. She/her.
@golafs.bsky.social
Postdoc @ SCGG, SU & Researcher @ DPCR, UU. Researching intersections between elections, democratization, autocratization, global governance, and boycotts.
@conflictmanagement.bsky.social
Conflict Management and Peace Science publishes work focused on the scientific study of conflict and peace. Affiliated with Peace Science Society (International). Editors: Margherita Belgioioso, @dainachiba.bsky.social, Wakako Maekawa, @mehrl.bsky.social
@martapitino.bsky.social
Sicilian PhD´ing at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University | studying gender, CRSV and armed conflict | she/her.
@finnklebe.bsky.social
ESRC-funded PhD student in Political Science at University College London, visiting researcher at University of Michigan -- researching contentious movements, political violence, repression, external support in conflict I University of Oxford Graduate
@realmps.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ the Hertie School | Authoritarianism, the Internet, and Civil War | Sports and Cats
@kyungmekim.bsky.social
Peace and conflict researcher @Swedish Defence University | Climate security, environmental peacebuilding, and transboundary water | SIPRI | PhD on civil resistance against dams in Myanmar |🇸🇪🇰🇷😺👧
@isaksvensson.bsky.social
Dag Hammarskjöld Professor in peace and conflict research, Uppsala University. Research on mediation, religion and conflict, civil resistance.
@jkotajoki.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University & visiting fellow, Geneva Graduate Institute. International interventions, non-state armed groups & civil war dynamics.
@aflorea.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Glasgow. Indiana University PhD. Civil war. Separatism. De facto states. Rebel governance. War and state (un)making. Data. RT#endorsement. aflorea.weebly.com
@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
@marietheresemeye.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim; researching political violence in democracies; she/her
@lisrosvold.bsky.social
Associate professor in political science @NTNU. Conflict dynamics, disasters, aid, climate mitigation and adaptation.
@corinnebara.bsky.social
PhD, Senior Researcher at ETH Zürich, passionate about peace and conflict research and data science.
@martinottmann.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Birmingham | Researching armed conflicts and the legacies of violence in post-conflict societies
@ivangusic.bsky.social
Focusing on the war-peace nexus, postwar cities (Beirut, Belfast, Mitrovica, Mostar, Nicosia, etc.), the socioeconomics of peace, and geocoded urban violence at Uppsala University. I like mountains and tattoos.
@reginesonja.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Studying civil wars, non-state armed groups and wartime institutions. Interested in Middle Eastern Politics and Societies. https://www.regineschwab.org/
@emmaelfversson.bsky.social
Associate prof, PoliSci, Uppsala University. Focus on urban contestation, urbanisation, postwar cities, local peacemaking & ethnic politics. Qual & quant. Environmentalist, feminist, pacifist (hippie basically). Background pic: art by Muramuzi JohnBosco
@janakrause.bsky.social
Professor, Political Science @UniOslo; Director MA PECOS; ERC ResilienceBuilding; Author of Resilient Communities
@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
@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)
@jzulver.bsky.social
📍 Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Swedish Defence University 📍 Senior Researcher at Ladysmith 📕 Author: High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Eng http://bit.ly/36wtfGz Esp http://bit.ly/3BGTNlQ
@davidbrenner.bsky.social
Assoc Prof at Sussex Global Studies | Student of borderworlds, conflict & karaoke in and around Myanmar | Author of Rebel Politics: https://bit.ly/RebPol
@gabriellalevy2.bsky.social
AP @ U of Washington | former postdoc @ Brown U | Ph.D. from Duke U | civil wars, political violence, political psychology | gabriellalevy.net
@hannapfeifer.bsky.social
Head of Research Area "Societal Peace and Internal Security" at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg @ifshhamburg.bsky.social
@civilwarsjournal.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary, peer reviewed T&F journal publishing on intra-state conflict. Co-eds: Dr Alex Waterman (University of Bradford) and Dr James Worrall (University of Leeds). Usual disclaimers
@floriankrampe.bsky.social
Director Climate Change & Risk Programme @SIPRI.org | #ClimateSecurity, conflict, peacebuilding, & security | PhD Uppsala Peace | 🇸🇪🇩🇪 | Geriatric Millennial. FlorianKrampe.org
@abbeyst.bsky.social
I research & teach about displacement, civil wars, state-building and Colombia at the University of Amsterdam. AMS / CLE / BOG abbeysteele.net ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1126-9235
@enzonussio.bsky.social
Political scientist studying peace, violence, and institutions, currently working on consolidator project "Decades of Peace" @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich.
@annedeglow.bsky.social
Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Research (Uppsala University). Organized violence | Policing and crime | Elections | Democracy.
@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
@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
@awraffoul.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University I Power-sharing, ethnic conflict, climate crisis.
@niklaskarlen.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University | Interventions, Conflict Delegation, Proxy Warfare, Civil Wars and US Foreign Policy.
@neerajprsd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. PhD, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Ex-World Bank (Dev Research). Website: www.neerajprasad.com