Andrea Novellis
@andreanovellis.bsky.social
Postdoc @ University L'Orientale of Naples
Now focus on EWS and international organizations
Also: Rebel governance, power-sharing and ethnonationalism
Focus on Sri Lanka, Kurdish issue, Syria, Turkey
Now focus on EWS and international organizations
Also: Rebel governance, power-sharing and ethnonationalism
Focus on Sri Lanka, Kurdish issue, Syria, Turkey
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📢 Excited to announce the publication of our Special Issue:
“Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics & Theoretical Perspectives”
Now out in Partecipazione e Conflitto (Q2, vol. 18, no. 2)
🔓 Open access: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/pa...
🧵Thread 👇
“Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics & Theoretical Perspectives”
Now out in Partecipazione e Conflitto (Q2, vol. 18, no. 2)
🔓 Open access: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/pa...
🧵Thread 👇
Heading to Canterbury for the 2025 Conflict Research Society Conference #CRS2025
I’ll be presenting in the panel “Sustaining Conflict: Conflict Recurrence and Protracted Wars.” on the Gaza genocide and the limitations of predictive systems in protracted conflicts.
I’ll be presenting in the panel “Sustaining Conflict: Conflict Recurrence and Protracted Wars.” on the Gaza genocide and the limitations of predictive systems in protracted conflicts.
September 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Heading to Canterbury for the 2025 Conflict Research Society Conference #CRS2025
I’ll be presenting in the panel “Sustaining Conflict: Conflict Recurrence and Protracted Wars.” on the Gaza genocide and the limitations of predictive systems in protracted conflicts.
I’ll be presenting in the panel “Sustaining Conflict: Conflict Recurrence and Protracted Wars.” on the Gaza genocide and the limitations of predictive systems in protracted conflicts.
Focus on the new #Syrian govt's sectarianism risks overlooking its dual policy of co-optation & brutality. Here for The Loop I suggest a new framework to explain how the logic of post-conflict consolidation drives this seemingly contradictory approach.👇
theloop.ecpr.eu/the-paradox-...
theloop.ecpr.eu/the-paradox-...
The paradox of Syria's new peace
Analyses of Syria's new government focus on sectarianism. But this obscures the logic behind its dual policy of co-optation and brutality. Andrea Novellis has developed a new framework to explain this...
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September 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Focus on the new #Syrian govt's sectarianism risks overlooking its dual policy of co-optation & brutality. Here for The Loop I suggest a new framework to explain how the logic of post-conflict consolidation drives this seemingly contradictory approach.👇
theloop.ecpr.eu/the-paradox-...
theloop.ecpr.eu/the-paradox-...
📢 Excited to announce the publication of our Special Issue:
“Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics & Theoretical Perspectives”
Now out in Partecipazione e Conflitto (Q2, vol. 18, no. 2)
🔓 Open access: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/pa...
🧵Thread 👇
“Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics & Theoretical Perspectives”
Now out in Partecipazione e Conflitto (Q2, vol. 18, no. 2)
🔓 Open access: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/pa...
🧵Thread 👇
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July 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📢 Excited to announce the publication of our Special Issue:
“Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics & Theoretical Perspectives”
Now out in Partecipazione e Conflitto (Q2, vol. 18, no. 2)
🔓 Open access: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/pa...
🧵Thread 👇
“Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics & Theoretical Perspectives”
Now out in Partecipazione e Conflitto (Q2, vol. 18, no. 2)
🔓 Open access: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/pa...
🧵Thread 👇
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Welcome: Leo Bauer, Imrana Alhaji Buba, @edoardocorradi.bsky.social , @vbouemardinocheau.bsky.social l, Promise Frank Ejiofar, @fortierjacob.bsky.social , Nguyen T Ha, @kyawhsanhlaing.com , Dr Camille Laville, Tony Neil, @andreanovellis.bsky.social , Dr Hogr O Tarkhani, Favell Williamlich / end
June 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Welcome: Leo Bauer, Imrana Alhaji Buba, @edoardocorradi.bsky.social , @vbouemardinocheau.bsky.social l, Promise Frank Ejiofar, @fortierjacob.bsky.social , Nguyen T Ha, @kyawhsanhlaing.com , Dr Camille Laville, Tony Neil, @andreanovellis.bsky.social , Dr Hogr O Tarkhani, Favell Williamlich / end
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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
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
June 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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
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
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📅 Deadline: 25 May 2025
📍 SISP Annual Conference, Naples, 4–6 Sept
🖊️ Submit here: sisp.it/en/conferenc...
👥 Chairs: Nicola degli Esposti (Padua) Andrea Novellis (Naples L’Orientale)
Please share with colleagues working on Middle East politics, conflict, or identity
📍 SISP Annual Conference, Naples, 4–6 Sept
🖊️ Submit here: sisp.it/en/conferenc...
👥 Chairs: Nicola degli Esposti (Padua) Andrea Novellis (Naples L’Orientale)
Please share with colleagues working on Middle East politics, conflict, or identity
Call for papers 2025 – SISP
sisp.it
May 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📅 Deadline: 25 May 2025
📍 SISP Annual Conference, Naples, 4–6 Sept
🖊️ Submit here: sisp.it/en/conferenc...
👥 Chairs: Nicola degli Esposti (Padua) Andrea Novellis (Naples L’Orientale)
Please share with colleagues working on Middle East politics, conflict, or identity
📍 SISP Annual Conference, Naples, 4–6 Sept
🖊️ Submit here: sisp.it/en/conferenc...
👥 Chairs: Nicola degli Esposti (Padua) Andrea Novellis (Naples L’Orientale)
Please share with colleagues working on Middle East politics, conflict, or identity
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🔹 Panel 13.6 — Beyond Sectarianism: Regional Politics and Conflict Realignments in the Middle East
sisp.it/convegno2025...
For two decades, Sunni–Shia rivalry structured most analyses of Middle East conflicts.
But this frame does not explain current dynamics
sisp.it/convegno2025...
For two decades, Sunni–Shia rivalry structured most analyses of Middle East conflicts.
But this frame does not explain current dynamics
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Conference Management System
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May 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🔹 Panel 13.6 — Beyond Sectarianism: Regional Politics and Conflict Realignments in the Middle East
sisp.it/convegno2025...
For two decades, Sunni–Shia rivalry structured most analyses of Middle East conflicts.
But this frame does not explain current dynamics
sisp.it/convegno2025...
For two decades, Sunni–Shia rivalry structured most analyses of Middle East conflicts.
But this frame does not explain current dynamics
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Is sectarianism still the masterframe for understanding Middle Eastern politics—or has the region already moved beyond it?
We're convening a panel at #SISP2025 (Naples, 4–6 Sept) to rethink conflict, identity, and regional order.
📝 Submit by 25 May.
Details in thread ⬇️
We're convening a panel at #SISP2025 (Naples, 4–6 Sept) to rethink conflict, identity, and regional order.
📝 Submit by 25 May.
Details in thread ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Is sectarianism still the masterframe for understanding Middle Eastern politics—or has the region already moved beyond it?
We're convening a panel at #SISP2025 (Naples, 4–6 Sept) to rethink conflict, identity, and regional order.
📝 Submit by 25 May.
Details in thread ⬇️
We're convening a panel at #SISP2025 (Naples, 4–6 Sept) to rethink conflict, identity, and regional order.
📝 Submit by 25 May.
Details in thread ⬇️
Is sectarianism still the masterframe for understanding Middle Eastern politics—or has the region already moved beyond it?
We're convening a panel at #SISP2025 (Naples, 4–6 Sept) to rethink conflict, identity, and regional order.
📝 Submit by 25 May.
Details in thread ⬇️
We're convening a panel at #SISP2025 (Naples, 4–6 Sept) to rethink conflict, identity, and regional order.
📝 Submit by 25 May.
Details in thread ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Is sectarianism still the masterframe for understanding Middle Eastern politics—or has the region already moved beyond it?
We're convening a panel at #SISP2025 (Naples, 4–6 Sept) to rethink conflict, identity, and regional order.
📝 Submit by 25 May.
Details in thread ⬇️
We're convening a panel at #SISP2025 (Naples, 4–6 Sept) to rethink conflict, identity, and regional order.
📝 Submit by 25 May.
Details in thread ⬇️
Reminder for researchers and practitioners working on risk, early warning systems, and conflict in South and Southeast Asia! The call for papers deadline for the Colombo workshop (June 25-26, 2025) is fast approaching. Share your insights and contribute to this vital discussion
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📅 Abstracts due: 30 April
🌍 In-person & online options
📩 Info: colomboews@gmail.com
Cfp: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#SriLanka #SouthAsia #SoutheastAsia #PoliticalRisk #ConflictPrevention #EarlyWarning
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📅 Abstracts due: 30 April
🌍 In-person & online options
📩 Info: colomboews@gmail.com
Cfp: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#SriLanka #SouthAsia #SoutheastAsia #PoliticalRisk #ConflictPrevention #EarlyWarning
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Colombo workshop CFP
Call for Papers Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning: Early Warning Systems, International Actors, and Crises in South and Southeast Asia Location: Open University of Sri Lanka, Colombo Workshop ...
docs.google.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reminder for researchers and practitioners working on risk, early warning systems, and conflict in South and Southeast Asia! The call for papers deadline for the Colombo workshop (June 25-26, 2025) is fast approaching. Share your insights and contribute to this vital discussion
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--> A workshop organized by: University of Naples - L'Orientale, Institute for South Asian Studies - National University of Singapore, Open University of Sri Lanka
April 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
--> A workshop organized by: University of Naples - L'Orientale, Institute for South Asian Studies - National University of Singapore, Open University of Sri Lanka
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📅 Abstracts due: 30 April
🌍 In-person & online options
📩 Info: colomboews@gmail.com
Cfp: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#SriLanka #SouthAsia #SoutheastAsia #PoliticalRisk #ConflictPrevention #EarlyWarning
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📅 Abstracts due: 30 April
🌍 In-person & online options
📩 Info: colomboews@gmail.com
Cfp: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#SriLanka #SouthAsia #SoutheastAsia #PoliticalRisk #ConflictPrevention #EarlyWarning
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Colombo workshop CFP
Call for Papers Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning: Early Warning Systems, International Actors, and Crises in South and Southeast Asia Location: Open University of Sri Lanka, Colombo Workshop ...
docs.google.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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📅 Abstracts due: 30 April
🌍 In-person & online options
📩 Info: colomboews@gmail.com
Cfp: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#SriLanka #SouthAsia #SoutheastAsia #PoliticalRisk #ConflictPrevention #EarlyWarning
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📅 Abstracts due: 30 April
🌍 In-person & online options
📩 Info: colomboews@gmail.com
Cfp: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#SriLanka #SouthAsia #SoutheastAsia #PoliticalRisk #ConflictPrevention #EarlyWarning
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📢 CfP – Colombo, June 25–26, 2025
Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning
A workshop on early warning systems, crisis forecasting & the politics of prevention in South & Southeast Asia.
🔎Themes: political violence, local/international responses, forecasting tools, regional case studies. -->
Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning
A workshop on early warning systems, crisis forecasting & the politics of prevention in South & Southeast Asia.
🔎Themes: political violence, local/international responses, forecasting tools, regional case studies. -->
April 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
📢 CfP – Colombo, June 25–26, 2025
Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning
A workshop on early warning systems, crisis forecasting & the politics of prevention in South & Southeast Asia.
🔎Themes: political violence, local/international responses, forecasting tools, regional case studies. -->
Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning
A workshop on early warning systems, crisis forecasting & the politics of prevention in South & Southeast Asia.
🔎Themes: political violence, local/international responses, forecasting tools, regional case studies. -->
📢 CfP – Colombo, June 25–26, 2025
Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning
A workshop on early warning systems, crisis forecasting & the politics of prevention in South & Southeast Asia.
🔎Themes: political violence, local/international responses, forecasting tools, regional case studies. -->
Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning
A workshop on early warning systems, crisis forecasting & the politics of prevention in South & Southeast Asia.
🔎Themes: political violence, local/international responses, forecasting tools, regional case studies. -->
April 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
📢 CfP – Colombo, June 25–26, 2025
Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning
A workshop on early warning systems, crisis forecasting & the politics of prevention in South & Southeast Asia.
🔎Themes: political violence, local/international responses, forecasting tools, regional case studies. -->
Risk, Agency, and the Politics of Warning
A workshop on early warning systems, crisis forecasting & the politics of prevention in South & Southeast Asia.
🔎Themes: political violence, local/international responses, forecasting tools, regional case studies. -->
That is, the PKK confirms it's ready for a new peace process. Unclear though how will Turkey build trust during the process considering its increasingly heavy crackdown on the Kurdish party DEM-run municipalities and the unprecedented targeting of those CHP municipalities elected with Kurdish votes
February 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
That is, the PKK confirms it's ready for a new peace process. Unclear though how will Turkey build trust during the process considering its increasingly heavy crackdown on the Kurdish party DEM-run municipalities and the unprecedented targeting of those CHP municipalities elected with Kurdish votes
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🚨 Don’t miss your chance to present at the CRS Annual Conference 2025!
📍 Location: University of Kent
🗓️ Dates: 17-19 September 2025
🖋️ Deadline: Submit abstracts by 31 January 2025
Take part in shaping the future of peace and conflict research!
📍 Location: University of Kent
🗓️ Dates: 17-19 September 2025
🖋️ Deadline: Submit abstracts by 31 January 2025
Take part in shaping the future of peace and conflict research!
December 2, 2024 at 2:44 PM
🚨 Don’t miss your chance to present at the CRS Annual Conference 2025!
📍 Location: University of Kent
🗓️ Dates: 17-19 September 2025
🖋️ Deadline: Submit abstracts by 31 January 2025
Take part in shaping the future of peace and conflict research!
📍 Location: University of Kent
🗓️ Dates: 17-19 September 2025
🖋️ Deadline: Submit abstracts by 31 January 2025
Take part in shaping the future of peace and conflict research!
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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...
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.
www.hfg.org
January 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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...
Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...
Reading a 2020 COAR report on Qamishli in Northeast Syria.
Of all the recent developments in Syria, I’ve yet to read anything about how the collapse of Assad’s regime will impact Rojava’s governance capabilities.
Of all the recent developments in Syria, I’ve yet to read anything about how the collapse of Assad’s regime will impact Rojava’s governance capabilities.
January 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reading a 2020 COAR report on Qamishli in Northeast Syria.
Of all the recent developments in Syria, I’ve yet to read anything about how the collapse of Assad’s regime will impact Rojava’s governance capabilities.
Of all the recent developments in Syria, I’ve yet to read anything about how the collapse of Assad’s regime will impact Rojava’s governance capabilities.
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Excited to announce my book is out with @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social! It provides a primer on wartime displacement (an issue that is, sadly, urgent and timely) and examines how, when, and why armed groups strategically displace civilians, drawing on fieldwork in Uganda, Syria, and elsewhere. 1/
January 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Excited to announce my book is out with @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social! It provides a primer on wartime displacement (an issue that is, sadly, urgent and timely) and examines how, when, and why armed groups strategically displace civilians, drawing on fieldwork in Uganda, Syria, and elsewhere. 1/
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Also coterminous with the worst anti-Muslim riots in the history of Sri Lanka in 2014, & again in a more violent manner early 2018, enabled by Meta’s app/platform stack. Lost count of calls with company where staff leading product dev had no clue, because they joined after it made NYT headlines.
January 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Also coterminous with the worst anti-Muslim riots in the history of Sri Lanka in 2014, & again in a more violent manner early 2018, enabled by Meta’s app/platform stack. Lost count of calls with company where staff leading product dev had no clue, because they joined after it made NYT headlines.
From @jhollandmccowan PhD thesis, on the understanding between the YPG and the US. Although it seems to me that the US has never publicly expressed this stance
December 31, 2024 at 9:43 AM
From @jhollandmccowan PhD thesis, on the understanding between the YPG and the US. Although it seems to me that the US has never publicly expressed this stance
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Journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin shot while covering war in Syria
Daştan and Bilgin lost their lives in a drone strike targeting their vehicle on 19 December. The journalists had been monitoring events in Karakozak since December 8.
🔗 bianet.org/haber/gazete...
Daştan and Bilgin lost their lives in a drone strike targeting their vehicle on 19 December. The journalists had been monitoring events in Karakozak since December 8.
🔗 bianet.org/haber/gazete...
December 20, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin shot while covering war in Syria
Daştan and Bilgin lost their lives in a drone strike targeting their vehicle on 19 December. The journalists had been monitoring events in Karakozak since December 8.
🔗 bianet.org/haber/gazete...
Daştan and Bilgin lost their lives in a drone strike targeting their vehicle on 19 December. The journalists had been monitoring events in Karakozak since December 8.
🔗 bianet.org/haber/gazete...
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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/...
ESOC Mentorship Program applications due January 20th!
We are pleased to announce the sixth year of the ESOC Mentorship Program. The purpose of this program is to support an international community of early-career investigators engaged in top-notch empiri...
esoc.princeton.edu
December 19, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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/...
Call for Papers! 🗣️
Informality as a Methodological Approach: Crises, Conflicts, Governance, and the Everyday
Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
Where: Naples, Italy
#informality #governance #crises #conflict #methodology #cfp #academictwitter
Informality as a Methodological Approach: Crises, Conflicts, Governance, and the Everyday
Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
Where: Naples, Italy
#informality #governance #crises #conflict #methodology #cfp #academictwitter
December 9, 2024 at 4:22 AM
Call for Papers! 🗣️
Informality as a Methodological Approach: Crises, Conflicts, Governance, and the Everyday
Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
Where: Naples, Italy
#informality #governance #crises #conflict #methodology #cfp #academictwitter
Informality as a Methodological Approach: Crises, Conflicts, Governance, and the Everyday
Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
Where: Naples, Italy
#informality #governance #crises #conflict #methodology #cfp #academictwitter