🚨 New paper in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social with Prabin Khadka. We study the reintegration of women and children during conflict. Our survey experiment in Somalia shows the public are more accepting of women and children, particularly those wedded to al-Shabaab fighters. academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

The Reintegration of Women and Children Defecting from Armed Groups during Conflict: Evidence from Somalia

Abstract. The public acceptance of former enemy collaborators by local communities is crucial for preventing violent extremism. Few studies experimentally

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🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 My first solo article is out! "A Quest for Legitimacy: Drivers of Organizational Affiliation with Global Jihadist Networks" @journalofgss.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogag016 Short Summary 👇

A Quest for Legitimacy: Drivers of Organizational Affiliation with Global Jihadist Networks

Abstract. Why do some locally oriented Islamist militant groups affiliate with global jihadist networks such as al-Qaeda or the Islamic State while others

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If at #APSA2025 don’t to miss the Climate and Conflict panel, Friday at 8 am. My amazing co-authors, Natalie Ayers, Laura Saavedra-Lux and Blair Welsh will be presenting our paper “After Rebel Rule”, examining how rebel occupation affects agricultural recovery after conflict. It is a great panel!

🚨 My department @westernu.ca is hiring up to two TT Assistant Professors in International Politics (IR/CP). I’m not on the search committee, but I’ll be at APSA next week — happy to chat & answer questions! Application info: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat... #polisky #conflictsky #intsec #IR

Come work with me/us!!! Happy to answer questions about our dept, Western, and Canadian academia. I absolutely love it here and highly recommend. Several of us will be at APSA and happy to meet. 🇨🇦

We are very excited to have the brilliant @blairwelsh.bsky.social joining the Dept of Political Science @westernu.ca! Look for big things and important work in empirical IR; great for us and great for Canada! politicalscience.uwo.ca/about_us/new...

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The second meeting of the spring 2025 #VIPWorkshop series happens next week (3/27 @ 11am EST)! Leonor Oliveira Toscano (@leoatoscano.bsky.social) will present a paper on peace infrastructure in Kenya (w/discussant Blair Welsh @blairwelsh.bsky.social). (1/3)

When do governments grant concessions for the release of hostages? Excited to share my article on hostage concessions in civil war is now published in Conflict Management and Peace Science. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Small thread on findings: #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScience

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