Excited to share a very interesting conversation on nostalgia and its role in driving different cycles of conflict. We drew especially on our varied experiences working in Northern Ireland, Colombia, and Lebanon.

Centre for Statecraft & National Security@csns-uk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What role does nostalgia play in driving conflict? New podcast with @cvoyvodic.bsky.social, Nafees Hamid Craig Larkin, and Maria El Sammak for XCEPT. Listen now 👇 🎧 bit.ly/4wnNeyy @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Palestine Action wins High Court challenge over group's ban as terrorist organisation

Palestine Action wins High Court challenge over group's ban as terrorist organisation

Palestine Action’s co-founder has won a legal challenge over the group's ban as a terrorist organisation on two grounds.

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a very lucid analysis of the growing academic and moral crises in this field

Wolfram Lacher@wlacher.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

Obviously concerning on many levels but I've not stopped laughing at 'gorillas by night' all morning 'Gorillas by Night' Literary fiction NYT list Indie band name Oscar-nominated Jane Goodall (rip) biopic that just makes it about her and forgets about the gorillas (set in undefined African country)

Exposed: Reform UK national director planned ‘physical resistance group’ for ‘gorillas by night tactics’ – HOPE not hate

Reform UK national director Adam Bounds tried to recruit members to a “physical resistance group” for “gorillas by night tactics” and promoted far-right and conspiracy...

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Fundamentally, if you were designing a refugee policy that annoyed everyone, then I'm not sure you could do much worse than still accepting refugees but turning them into a permanently precarious underclass.

Alan Beattie@alanbeattie.bsky.social · 10mo ago

But I was told that Keir Starmer’s conference speech marked a pivot away from imitating Reform and towards a bold new liberal something! I WAS PROMISED! on.ft.com/4mGqFPF

New article alert with Dr Thia Sagherian-Dickey @coco-journal.bsky.social! We examine how children are raised in protracted conflict, how it offers civilians agency in transmitting protective strategies, and pathways (and pitfalls) to conflict transformation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Excited to share my blogpost for @civilwarpaths.bsky.social Fellowship on the complex entanglements between business, conflict, and human rights! I discuss how corporations integrate the 'cost' of conflict into their ventures, despite dangerous consequences for civilians on the ground.

The Cost of Doing Business - Civil War Paths

Dr Clara Voyvodic is Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford, focusing on the intersections of armed conflict, development, and local order

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Our brilliant Peace Studies students came from all over the world to spend a very thought-provoking week speaking with experts and peacebuilders working across Northern Ireland. Thank you to the Quakers Peace Studies Trust (QPST) for making our Annual Peace Studies Visit possible!

🚨 La Agencia Nacional de Minería (ANM) pretende renovar por 30 años la explotación de la mina El Roble (Carmen de Atrato, Chocó). Los socios, Ático Mining y la familia del exgobernador Aníbal Gaviria, fueron condenados a pagar $119 mil millones por regalías no liquidadas.

Gobierno pretende renovar contrato con minera que debe al Estado $119.000 millones en regalías

La ANM pretende renovar el contrato de explotación de la mina El Roble, ubicada en el Carmen de Atrato (Chocó), por 30 años. Esta mina, propiedad de la canadiense Ático Mining (90%) y de la familia de...

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Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale! Show local businesses your love (and tell Bezos to stick it on a rocket ship)

Libro.fm@libro.fm · last yr.

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

Excited to discuss!

VIP Workshop@vipworkshop.bsky.social · last yr.

The second paper is a coauthored project by Jamie Shenk and Shauna Gillooly @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social on corporate-state security contracts with discussant Clara Voyvodic (@cvoyvodic.bsky.social). (2/3)

Applications are open for the 2025-26 Aziz Foundation Masters Scholarships. 📣 Full-fee scholarships for British Muslims to advance in their careers and bring positive change to their communities and beyond. Please share with your networks! Find out more and apply before 20 June: bit.ly/41iNb8w

Aziz Foundation Scholarship (2025/26) - Scholarship

Apply for Aziz Foundation Scholarship (2025/26). Available to postgraduate taught students.

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Yesterday, the department's Global Security Research Group held an informal workshop to discuss a number of fascinating research projects spanning rich archival work, deep ethnographies and quantitative modelling. Particularly great to see our PhD students showcasing the evolution of their projects!

***New Open Access Publication!*** In this India Review article co-authored with Ben Holt, we develop a new typology capturing variation in state-rebel conflict across Northeast India www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Highland, Heartland and Hinterland Conflicts: Introducing a Typology of State-rebel Conflict in Northeast India

The many “forgotten conflicts” of Northeast India remain poorly understood. Important works have highlighted deep nuances and historical variation in patterns of state-society relations across the ...

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Excited to share new research from one of our colleagues! Dr Clara Voyvodic @cvoyvodic.bsky.social has two papers out on armed groups and rebel authority in Colombia. Clara’s work explores the intersections of conflict, development, and non-state governance. www.bradford.ac.uk/staff/cvoyvo...

🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨 with @annetteidler.bsky.social How do violent non-state actors (VNSAs) shape the fate of massive infrastructure projects? Our new article in International Studies Quarterly reveals the hidden forces behind global megaprojects. 🧵👇 👉 academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Rescaling Geoeconomics: The Role of Local Illicit Authority in Global Megaprojects

Abstracts. This article examines the influence of violent non-state actors (VNSAs) on the construction of large-scale infrastructure projects in conflict-a

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Our research university leaders are totally failing us in the authoritarian moment. Not even trying to loudly & publicly defend the project of academia or the institutions. Just choosing a combination of “keep our heads down” & anticipatory compliance. Shamefully inadequate to the moment.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · last yr.

Penn has always wanted to be the nation's leading university and it finally is -- in chickenshit cowardice I guess when your most famous alums are Donald Trump and Elon Musk you have a legacy to live down to www.inquirer.com/education/un...

The Department of Peace Studies and International Development is now on BlueSky!

Kicking off 2025 with a new paper from the eternally-absent-from-social-media but wonderful coauthor Jose Gutierrez! In this paper we explore how communities in rural Colombia used their experiences of rebel order to evaluate and renegotiate the entry of new armed groups.

(PDF) Gone with the Rebels: Reshaping Local Orders in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia

PDF | The 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP, and the demobilization of the latter, dismantled the governance... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

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1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

Inaugural post: I'm pleased to present my new article "The Fog of War" where I examine how conflict narratives, often used by elites, mislead or undermine efforts to identify developmental violence and suppression against civilians.