📢 NEW article in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law "The Beyond Compliance Approach: Centering Harm + Need Towards Full(er) Protection in Armed Conflict". The article builds the conceptual scaffolding of the Beyond Compliance Consortium's research programme. 👉Read here: bit.ly/BCC-Article

Out on the @civilwarpaths.bsky.social blog now, our own Sadeen Haddad shares her research on Lebanon and the use of social institutions by armed groups to platform ideology and shape public framings of threat, read it here 👇 www.civilwarpaths.org/the-role-of-...

The role of ideology in Hezbollah’s social institutions - Civil War Paths

Sadeen Haddad is a research associate with the Civil War Paths project, working on micro-mobilisation and intra-group dynamics in Lebanon. Photo Credit: ZOHRA BENSEMRA/ REUTERS

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Out now on the @civilwarpaths.bsky.social blog, @geraldinebustos.bsky.social shares her research from Colombia and beyond to show how armed group ideology shapes both war and peace. 👇 www.civilwarpaths.org/does-ideolog...

Does Ideology Matter to Make Peace? Lessons from Colombia and Beyond - Civil War Paths

Dr Geraldine Butos is a post-doctoral researcher examining ideology and patterns of violence in rebel groups in Latin America with a focus on Colombia. Photo Credits: Deúniti, Creative Collective

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In our first blog of the new year, Hogr Tarkhani shares his research in Iraq to discuss why militias stay. Read it here 👇 www.civilwarpaths.org/why-militias...

Why Militias Stay: The Security Dilemma Behind Iraq’s Persistent Armed Actors - Civil War Paths

Hogr Tarkhani is an assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Rogers State University and a 2025-26 Civil War Paths Fellow at the Center for the Comparative Study of Civi...

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Such a pleasure co-authoring this report with @ezequielheffes.bsky.social, Anki Sjöberg & Konstantina Karagkouni! In it we discuss what factors affect #compliance & #restraint by #NSAGs, who influences these outcomes & how they unfold adopting a multi-factor, multi-actor & norm-specific approach 👇🏼

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📢New report: “The What, Who and How of Compliance and Restraint by Non-State Armed Groups: A Snapshot of Behavioural Variation”. 👉 Download the report, and summaries here: bit.ly/BCC-Paper-Se... 📢 📢This report is the No.1 issue in our new #BeyondCompliancePaperSeries: bit.ly/Beyond-Compl...

This week on the @civilwarpaths.bsky.social blog @reginesonja.bsky.social shares insights from her forthcoming book on armed group constellations in multiparty civil wars - and how these shaped conflict dynamics in Syria in 2024 👇 www.civilwarpaths.org/armed-group-...

Armed Group Constellations in Multiparty Civil Wars: How Syrian Rebels Toppled Assad - Civil War Paths

Dr. Regine Schwab is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Goethe University Frankfurt, working on contemporary civil wars, militant Islamist groups, wartime institut...

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New publication alert; this one with two former PhD students in our program at Georgetown: Simón Ballesteros and Daniel Solomon. "Formal Institutions After Conflict: Rebel Ideology and Post-War Constitutional Design." journals.sagepub.com/eprint/AB6CD...

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2025-2026 Civil War Paths Seminar Series - Civil War Paths

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We're very excited to launch our upcoming Civil War Paths seminar series! Our 2025-2026 series explores issues at the forefront of the study of civil war and its aftermath, featuring contributions from @hedstrom.bsky.social and @enzonussio.bsky.social . /1

My copy of The Routledge Handbook of Field Research arrived! Thanks @hamstertowers.bsky.social & Naomi Holmes for putting together such a great volume. My chapter tackles head-on the unexpected in fieldwork on armed conflict w/implications for doctoral training: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

"Repurposing rebellion: building rebel successor parties on the heels of war?" by Sherry Zaks is available online now in EJIR. Read it here: t1p.de/7jlrx

Thanks for sharing! Our article is now available open access at @cpsjournal.bsky.social 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Political Legacies of Wartime Resistance: How Local Communities in Italy Keep Anti-fascist Sentiments Alive - Simone Cremaschi, Juan Masullo, 2024

Can past wartime experiences affect political behavior beyond those who lived through them? We argue that local experiences of armed resistance leave political ...

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Full paper now available here! doi.org/10.1086/729947

Coercive Legacies: From Rebel Governance to Authoritarian Control | The Journal of Politics: Vol 86, No 4

Ex-rebels govern almost a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa today. How does war affect these countries’ long-run political development, and what explains their rebel regimes’ longevity? The article explor...

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Political Violence New Publications and Working Papers@polviolencepapers.bsky.social · 2y ago

New article in the Journal of Politics by @shelleyliu.bsky.social examines how wartime coercive rebel governance shapes political development post-conflict, using Zimbabwe as a case to analyze the persistence of coercive control.

🪖 Traditional theories argue that rebels need full territorial control to govern. We challenge that view, and argue that low state responsiveness toward rebel-aligned populations creates openings for insurgent institutions, even in state-dominated zones.

Excited to share a new open-access article with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... This project started in 2018 Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city, in the aftermath of a 9-month battle … 1/7

I am looking for a researcher (pre-doc) in my DFG-funded project "Violence Against Political Actors at the Grassroots Level" 👇

Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen@kfnhannover.bsky.social · last yr.

🔍 Researcher (Pre-Doc) (m/f/d), 75% political science, criminology or related fields 📅 Start: 01.03.2026, limited to 3 years. 💬 Very good German language skills are required. 🎓 Doctorate within the framework of the project expressly desired! Further information: en.kfn.de/wp-content/u...

Long in the making, this article on mid-level commanders in hierarchical non-state organizations concludes over 5 years of work with former mid-level commanders (mandos medios) of the FARC-EP in Colombia /1 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/S7DHC...

Disaggregating rebellion: Mid-level commanders in hierarchical non-state armed organizations - Anastasia Shesterinina, 2025

Existing research demonstrates the central role of mid-level commanders as either spoilers or leaders of peace but treats this group as unitary, defined by its ...

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It's publication day! "Why did I get into that car?" is a question that has haunted me for years & that I'm grateful to late Lee Ann Fujii for encouraging me to address. I start the chapter w/ this q to explore the limits of trust & researcher safety in fieldwork on armed conflict 👇🏼 bit.ly/4kW1hob

Navigating Field Research in Armed Conflict Settings | 38 | The Routle

This chapter considers unique challenges of field research in settings where armed conflict has taken place and/or is ongoing. It opens with a vignette from a

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Uncertainty in Global Politics is now out in paperback! Co-edited with the wonderful @miriammatej.bsky.social‬, with chapters on uncertainty in diverse contexts of armed conflict, social movement mobilization, global environmental politics & international law www.routledge.com/Uncertainty-...

Uncertainty in Global Politics

This book engages in a constructive, practical debate on the nature and effects of uncertainty in global politics. International contributors explore the processes associated with different forms of u...

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We’re accepting submissions for Fall 2025 until August 14. If you’re on the market, it’s a great chance to practice your job talk with an audience! We also welcome paper presentations. Apply here: iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop@jqconworkshop.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop Fall 2025 PhD students, postdocs & junior faculty: Present your research/practice job talk! 🗓️ Virtual: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 1pm ET 📝 Deadline: Aug 14 Application below: #PoliSci #polisky #JobMarket #ConflictStudies

Back from mat leave to see some long-awaited publications coming out! In this Forum, I discuss the practices of flexibility in research design, ongoing reflexivity & project updating before, during & after fieldwork based on the experience of the large, team-based @civilwarpaths.bsky.social project

Filippo Dionigi@filippodionigi.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Forum written together with: ➡️ @marniehowlett.bsky.social ➡️@rtapscott.bsky.social ➡️@grace-akello.bsky.social ➡️Mousumi Mukherjee ➡️Natalia Otrishcenko ➡️Anastasia Shesterinina 📑Rethinking Ethics Review for International Relations Research @ispjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article-...

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN! Apply to the Latin American Peace Science Society (LAPSS) 2026 Conference! www.eafit.edu.co/lapss Details below 🧵

We are pleased to announce the 2025-2026 cohort of @civilwarpaths.bsky.social Fellows - Welcome! This year's Fellows bring with them wide ranging empirical and conceptual expertise on armed conflict and organisations, spanning from the Middle East, West Africa, to Southeast Europe / 1

Newly published on the @civilwarpaths.bsky.social blog, @ashesterinina.bsky.social shares updates from the past year, including exciting insights from recent events, new publications from the team, and the range of contributions from our Fellows. Read more 👇

Year Four of Civil War Paths: Taking Stock - Civil War Paths

Professor Anastasia Shesterinina is Chair in Comparative Politics at the University of York. She currently holds a £1.2m UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship and direct the Centre for ...

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Calling all political scientists researching Syria! I'm very excited to team up with @pomeps.bsky.social & André Bank of @giga-hamburg.de to organize this virtual workshop to share & discuss short papers, leading to an open-access POMEPS study. Abstracts due July 21. pomeps.org/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers: Syria after Assad Workshop - Project on Middle East Political Science

The stunning collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024 has thrown up crucial questions about the future of Syria and the Syrian people. For example, is Syria transitioning mainly from fourteen yea...

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What a fantastic way to wrap up the first 4 years of the Civil War Paths project and make plans for future collaboration! Big thanks to all the participants for engaging with the project and sharing your latest research in an atmosphere of trust and openness

Simon Pierre Boulanger Martel@spbmartel.bsky.social · last yr.

I had the privilege to take part in a Civil War Paths workshop in York last week. Many thanks to @ashesterinina.bsky.social and the @civilwarpaths.bsky.social team for the warm welcome! It was a pleasure to engage with this brilliant group of scholars. I look forward to continuing the conversation!