Our article Conflict Management from Below is out in Ethnopolitics: 📄 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZRWKF... We propose a new conceptual lens for understanding sustained, organised local efforts to mitigate violence. The paper challenges deep-rooted assumptions about spontaneity in community responses.

Conflict Management from Below: Insights from Somali Clan Militias and Colombian Indigenous Security Initiatives

The article challenges conventional views in peace studies portraying local responses to violence as spontaneous and unstructured. Drawing on cases from Colombia (Guardia Indígena) and Somalia (Ma’...

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📣 I announce the upcoming release of my book - Liberal #Peacebuilding in Times of Change: The #UN, the #EU, and the Politics of Continuity - for @routledgebooks.bsky.social in @iaionline.bsky.social "Trends and Perspectives in International Politics" book series. www.routledge.com/Liberal-Peac...

Liberal Peacebuilding in Times of Change: The UN, the EU, and the Politics of Continuity

This book explores why and how, in an era in which conflicts are turning into arenas of strategic competition, international organizations have become the ultimate guardians of liberal peace. Internat...

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📌 #Uganda to deploy 4–6k troops to #Somalia under a bilateral deal—another sign of growing "forum shopping" in #African #security States are bypassing multilateral mandates for more flexible options With @giuliolevorato.bsky.social 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Africa #IR #peacebuilding

Go with the flow. The fluid nature of African security governance: interpreting security regime configuration(s) in CAR, Burkina Faso, and DRC

This article explores the evolving dynamics shaping African security governance. Drawing on the concept of regime complex, the study frames African security governance as a fluid system characteris...

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📣My latest article w @fededonelli.bsky.social on @cambridgecria.bsky.social is finally out. Borrowing from (regime) complexity theories and recent works on overlapping institutions and forum shopping, we explained the fluid character of African Security Governance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Go with the flow. The fluid nature of African security governance: interpreting security regime configuration(s) in CAR, Burkina Faso, and DRC

This article explores the evolving dynamics shaping African security governance. Drawing on the concept of regime complex, the study frames African security governance as a fluid system characteris...

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🚨 Call for Papers, #SISP-Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, Naples, 4–6 September 2025 📢 ⏰ Deadline: 25 May 2025 🔗 Call: www.sisp.it/en/conferenc... 📝Panel 7.4 "Multidimensional Competition in Contemporary Peace Dynamics", with Irene Costantini and Ruth Santini

📣 I am very proud to have contributed to the organisation of this international #workshop on the impact of competitive dynamics on #conflict resolution, which will see the participation of many recognised scholars. Hopefully, the results of our reflections will be published soon. Stay tuned!

📣 Competition is becoming the defining feature of the new international order. But what is its impact on the way we think, talk, and act on #peace? If you are interested in this or related questions join Irene Costantini Rruth Santini and me in our panel at #SISP Conference 2025 (Naples). Link ⬇️

💡 Happy to share my small reflection (in italian) on the crisis of multilateralism "between contestation and self-preservation" for the Forum on Human Rights organized by the italian think tank CeSPI

📚 Another good news from #ISA2025. I signed w/t Routledge for the publication of my first book, "Liberal Peacebuilding in Time of Change: the UN, the EU and the Politics of Continuity".It will be part of the book series Trends and Perspectives in International Politics by IAI @leogoretti.bsky.social

Just arrived to #Chicago. Join me tomorrow at #ISA2025. I will present the results of our research - University of Naples L'Orientale - on Western adaptations to geopolitical #competition in the #conflict management and resolution field.

A very insightful workshop at University of Naples L'Orientale on #informality where yesterday I presented a paper w/t @fededonelli.bsky.social on policy approaches to #ConflictManagement from below. We brought the two novel cases of #Colombia Indigenous Guard 🇨🇴 and #Somalia Ma'awisley militias 🇸🇴