Absolutely delighted to be working more with @ucigcc.bsky.social - such a fantastic organization!

UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation@ucigcc.bsky.social · 10mo ago

IGCC is pleased to welcome Aila Matanock (@matanock.bsky.social) to the institute's leadership as Research Director for Violence, Intervention, and Order. Aila, an IGCC affiliate since 2022, is an associate professor at @gpsucsd.bsky.social. Learn more about Aila here: ucigcc.org/people/aila-...

For today's spotlight on EGAPers researching #conflict, read about @matanock.bsky.social work with Miguel Garcia-Sanchez to measure social support during counterinsurgency in Colombia. Read more at buff.ly/Py6JVO0

Brief 46: Measuring Social Support During Counterinsurgency in Colombia – EGAP

EGAP researcher: Aila Matanock

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Are you a researcher or practitioners focused on governance, politics, & institutions displaced by recent policy shifts? EGAP is providing a platform to continue vital conversations and evidence-sharing! Learn more & apply here: buff.ly/J5BOmVK

A fantastic panel kicking off the Empirical Studies of Conflict meeting in Taipei thanks to the organizing work of @renardsexton.bsky.social and NTU! Chia-yi Lee @dotanhaim.bsky.social @emilyrussell.bsky.social

🌏 Insights from CEGA’s latest blog post show how Southeast Asian countries are responding to geopolitical competition, security threats, and rising power rivalries. 🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/SEAsiaInsights

New Threats, Ad-hoc Networks, and Strategic Flexibility: Security Insights from Southeast Asia

On March 26 and 27, 2025, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Center for Asia Globalization (CAG) hosted the “Workshop on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order: Southeast...

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Please circulate! @wpmarble and I are looking for a part-time RA to help with various data tasks. This is a remote-work position that is ideal for recent graduates who are considering applying for a social science PhD. Apply here: forms.gle/EN3JLUiNm8m4...

Research Assistant Position with Malik and Marble

Prof. Mashail Malik (Harvard) and Dr. William Marble (Stanford) are searching for a part-time research assistant (RA) primarily for a project on the political integration of immigrants in the United S...

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Please Share: Do you know talented young people considering doing a PhD? the @snfagora.bsky.social at @JHU will welcome at least two pre-doctoral fellows for AY25-27. snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-ac... #gendersky #econsky #polisky #academicsky #predoc #fellow

#NewCEGABlog: Pacific for Whom? CEGA recently convened leading security experts from the Pacific region to explore how geopolitical competition interacts with foreign aid and security arrangements. Learn more here: go.cega.org/blogPacificForWhom

Pacific for Whom? Order Contestation in the Pacific Region

On February 24, 2025, CEGA hosted the Pacific Conference on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order at the East-West Center and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In this post, CEGA’s...

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Our call for the 2025 Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Annual Meeting on Geostrategic Opportunity and Upheaval on October 9-10 is up! Submissions due on June 16. W/ Yuri Zhukov @laiabalcells.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social @renardsexton.bsky.social More here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Can't wait to head down to UCSB in a couple of weeks to help launch @wnomikos.bsky.social's fantastic book!

William Nomikos@wnomikos.bsky.social · last yr.

Amid all the uncertainty around the world, I am so honored that I get to have a book launch for Local Peace, International Builders with discussants @matanock.bsky.social and Salma Mousa. 📘 Book Link: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace If you're in Santa Barbara on April 30th, come join us!

Reminder that the @cega-uc.bsky.social #AES2025 deadline for speakers and posters is tomorrow - more information here: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-a...

2025 Africa Evidence Summit

CEGA and NIERA will co-host the 13th annual Africa Evidence Summit on June 23-24, 2025.

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Are you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb. Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...

HFG Emerging Scholars - HFG

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.

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For early-career conflict researchers: the ESOC Mentorship Program is open! It provides fellows working on conflict with individual mentors, campus engagement with them, and professional development, including attending an ESOC meeting. More details here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Excited to share my new article (w/ Leo Arriola & @matanock.bsky.social) published in @polcommjournal.bsky.social Heard the claim that #Facebook caused a genocide by fanning the flames of hate in #Myanmar? The reality may be more complicated… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A brief 🧵 1/15

Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar

Are social media users in developing and conflict-affected countries more intolerant than non-users? As platforms like Facebook become increasingly viewed as drivers of polarization and violence, t...

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Curious what happens at an EGAP meeting? Check out this recap of our plenary in Paris this past October. Many thanks to @vinarceneaux.bsky.social & CEVIPOF for hosting & to all who joined for a productive and insightful two days! egap.org/resource/egap-plenary-meeting-in-review-paris-october-2024/

My small contribution to helping the electoral violence researchers to reconnect and encouraging everyone else interested in the topic to follow them. Likely to have missed some (others might still join), so comment/DM to be included. go.bsky.app/5ULK58P

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith... Conflictsky

CRS | Cedric Smith Prize

The CRS welcomes submissions for the Cedric Smith Prize 2019 which is a peace research prize awarded for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a student

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So happy to finally have "Weapons of the Weak State: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding" with @susannacampbell.bsky.social in print (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding - The Review of International Organizations

International Organizations (IOs), such as the United Nations (U.N.), engage in statebuilding in a range of post-conflict states. Statebuilding scholarship largely assumes that IOs, backed by their po...

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Many thanks to #EGAP for briefing our Journal of Conflict Resolution article with Miguel Garcia Sanchez and Natalia Garbiras Diaz about the #Colombia peace process (with applications to other peace processes currently in the works): egap.org/resource/wha...

Hoping to get some great papers - for my own curiosity especially on #Mexico #policing - for the @ESoConflict Annual Meeting (Oct 17-19, 2024 at UCLA). Please apply by June 14th! esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #conflictsky #polisky

Thanks so much to @UCIGCC and Neil Narang/UCSB and the UC IR faculty in attendance for such a great day - got wonderful feedback and learned about some fantastic projects!

UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation@ucigcc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our first presenter of the day, Aila Matanock of UC Berkeley (@matanock.bsky.social), shares her latest working paper, "Using Invited Intervention to Address Security Challenges", in collaboration with Wendy Wagner (UCSD) and Andrew Wojtanik (UC Berkeley). #UCCIC24

Thrilled and still quite shocked to receive the 2024 Karl Deutsch Award from ISA last week at the annual meeting. I am lucky to have the most amazing community who makes this work possible – and fun! Many thanks to you and the selection committee. www.isanet.org/News/ID/6384... #conflictsky #polisky

Is #Facebook *the* breeding ground for intolerance? My new Political Communication piece w/ Oren Samet & Leo Arriola challenges assumptions, shows that FB users in #Myanmar are more tolerant. Social media can be a bad tool but more nuance is needed: doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #conflictsky

From the ESOC Call for Papers for 2024 Annual Meeting: This year's theme is “Hate and Conflict." The submission deadline for full working papers is June 14th, and the meeting will be on October 17-19 at UCLA. See link for more details: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #Polisky #ConflictSky

Great over view of trends in/ rise of conflict scholarship on Colombia in recent years

Juliana Tappe Ortiz@tappeortiz.bsky.social · 3y ago

Did you ever wonder if more and more people are writing about Colombia or if this is just a wrong impression? New publication on the last 25 years of scholarship on Colombia’s civil conflict @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Some exciting virtual events this week: (1) "Join us on Tuesday, February 27, at 1:30 p.m. ET at the @WorldBank's #FragilityForum to discover how #LatAm and the #Caribbean can respond more effectively to #Crime and #Violence challenges bit.ly/3SSsLiH PoliSky ConflictSky @santiagotobon.bsky.social

From EGAP (with deadline on March 1!): *APPLY NOW* for the EGAP West Africa Regional Hub at CERAP Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire Learning Days workshop (24-29 June). The workshop will focus on causal inference in impact evaluation for Africa-based researchers and evaluators egap.org/project/lear... #polisky

Very happy to see this whole volume about public opinion and the peace process in Colombia, and to have some of work with Natalia Garbiras Diaz & Miguel Garcia Sanchez finally published en español - muchas gracias a Miguel and Sandra! Polisky Conflictsky

Curious about the peace process in Colombia? Or about how policymaker positions and popular opinion inform each other? Check out Natalia Garbiras Diaz’s fantastic interview about our recent work, delving into attitude formation among legislators and average citizens: faculti.net/do-citizens-...

Really looking forward to reading this article that promises to help set the agenda on gender and conflict:

Hilary Matfess@hilarymatfess.bsky.social · 3y ago

Pleased that my latest article, with Jakana Thomas and Mariam Santara, is now available! academic.oup.com/afraf/advanc... polisky gendersky