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Maureen
@maureenfubara.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, researching subnational electoral violence in Nigeria.
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Very excited to share that my first PhD article is out. So grateful to the reviewers, editor and colleagues for their feedback and suggestions. Please check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Very excited to share that my first PhD article is out. So grateful to the reviewers, editor and colleagues for their feedback and suggestions. Please check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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🆕 Excited to see this article by @maureenfubara.bsky.social out.

Drawing on 100+ interviews across Nigerian states, she shows how access to rents shapes whether leaders rely on armed groups or ordinary citizens for perpetrating electoral violence.

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August 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Excited to host @hannefjelde.bsky.social, next week! Event details here: shorturl.at/t0QCj
February 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Soo excited to be teaching Intro to International Relations this semester. Waited two years for this opportunity and it was worth it! Delay is not denial 😊. What an amazing group of curious and intelligent students! Not looking forward to the end of the course in December.
November 8, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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Is your Bluesky feed missing in conflict analysis? I made a starter pack of peace and conflict scholars to follow here. DM me if you want to be included.

#Conflictsky

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September 12, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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🔖 New open-access article out in @WorldDevJournal on why some armed groups restrain violent communal conflict in areas under their control while others do not ⤵️

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Keeping communal peace in the shadow of civil war: A natural experiment from Côte d’Ivoire
Violent communal conflicts between identity-based groups are a severe threat to human security and development. While most communal conflicts take pla…
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January 4, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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If you have trouble regaining followers since joining Bluesky, here are 5 things that helped me:

1️⃣ Start posting and interacting, people like following active accounts.

2️⃣ Use Follower Bridge to find people from X: github.com/kawamataryo/... (revisit every week or so to find recent arrivals).
GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitt...
Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. - GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower...
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November 6, 2023 at 7:28 AM
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⬆️ boosting for the #methodology feed

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October 31, 2023 at 8:06 PM
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Important read on fieldwork positionalities ⤵️

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October 31, 2023 at 9:15 AM
Just in case you haven’t read it (Twitter saw it first). I wrote about my first fieldwork experience in Nigeria. The article is about navigating changing positionalities on the field, find it here: zenodo.org/records/7921...
Notes from the field: Reconciling changing positionalities: reflections from my fieldwork in Nigeria
In the second year of my PhD, I went on my first extensive fieldwork trip. As a Nigerian woman studying in the Netherlands, I was enthusiastic about travelling across Nigeria to conduct interviews�...
zenodo.org
October 31, 2023 at 7:37 AM