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PolIR • Kent • GIGA Hamburg • WIASN • Interests: post-conflict, security, feminism, cats, bikes • Transiberica 2023 • TransAtlantic Way 2023 • TCRNo8
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Nadine @nadineansorg.bsky.social · Nov 27
Come to Kent in 2025 and present your peace and conflict papers at next year's CRS conference!
jenniferhodge.bsky.social jenniferhodge.bsky.social @jenniferhodge.bsky.social · Nov 27
📣 Attention all peace and conflict scholars and practitioners! The call for the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference 2025 is out! Get your paper, panel and workshop submissions in by 17th January 😀

conflictresearchsociety.org/call-for-pap...
Call for papers 2025 - CRS
Call for papers 2025 CRS
conflictresearchsociety.org
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allansmith.bsky.social
New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar

“Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say
Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.
www.nbcnews.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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christinecheng.bsky.social
Welcoming all of us to the 62nd annual Conflict Research Society Conference at the University of Kent this year!

Thanks to @kristinmbakke.bsky.social @nadineansorg.bsky.social @finnklebe.bsky.social Ana Lucia Pelaez Echeverria & Isadora Gotts!

#CRS2025
September 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
August 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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omerbartov.bsky.social
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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isanet.bsky.social
🚨 Apply now! ISA Research Workshop Grants (up to $2,500) support collaborative, interdisciplinary research in International Studies. $50K total funding available for 2026! In-person & virtual options. #ISA2026 👉 buff.ly/XsaQQIl
Text: ISA is please to announce to call for applications for 2026 ISA Research Workshop Grants Deadline July 1st Image: photo of bookshelves with a green box and text. ISA logo
June 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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24hoursukraine.bsky.social
War affects nature in so many ways you would never think of without seeing it first. Birds on the front lines weave their nests from fiber optics. Photo from AzovMedia
June 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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omarbaddar.bsky.social
Imagine what the news coverage would be like if Hamas had just killed 700+ Israelis.

But it’s Palestinians being murdered, so it’s a foot note.

Hundreds of children brutally killed with US-supplied weapons, but life goes on like nothing is happening.
March 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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akm0803.bsky.social
Jeder fünfte Wähler hat für die AfD gestimmt. Ein Warnsignal, denn die Partei hat Düsteres vor. Was man ihr nun entgegensetzen müsste.

Spoiler: das Gegenteil, was die Union gerade mit der Zivilgesellschaft (s. Kleine Anfrage) macht.

Mein Leitartikel:
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
(S+) Meinung: Die Demokratie ist in akuter Gefahr, doch die CDU spielt der AfD in die Hände
Jeder fünfte Wähler hat für die völkisch-nationalistische AfD gestimmt. Ein Warnsignal, denn die Partei hat Düsteres mit der Bundesrepublik vor. Was man ihr nun entgegensetzen müsste.
www.spiegel.de
February 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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torewig.bsky.social
How did modern democracy spread so widely? @stasavage.bsky.social with an interesting review of our book "The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy" (and other recent contributions on the topic) in the JHPE. Important discussion in these difficult times. www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
now publishers - How Did Modern Democracy Spread So Widely?
Publishers of Foundations and Trends, making research accessible
www.nowpublishers.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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cullenhendrix.bsky.social
For those seeing rapid de-institutionalization occurring in the United States, there's plenty out there on unconstrained executives that stops short of full-blown, North Korea-esque authoritarian rule.

There's a term for it, too:

Hyperpresidentialism

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...
Hyper-Presidentialism: Separation of Powers Without Checks and Balances in Argentina and the Philippines
Presidential power is difficult to control through formal institutional checks. Even where constitutional and statutory limits exist, Presidents often seek to
papers.ssrn.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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warandcoffee.bsky.social
Zelenskyy has been more faithfully following the Ukrainian constitution (re: elections and martial law) than Trump has been following the US constitution (re: basically everything)
united24media.com UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · Feb 19
⚡️ Donald Trump doubles down, calling Zelenskyy "a dictator without elections" and claiming to be "successfully negotiating" an end to the war.
February 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social
Join us in Helsinki or online on 24 February to discuss three years of Ukraine's resistance

Thanks to Aleksanteri Institute, @amtolok.bsky.social, @sierrasalazar.bsky.social, Maija Harju, @unabergmane.bsky.social for organising!
E-Lomake - Roundtable discussions: Three Years of Ukrainian Resistance to the Full-Scale Invasion
elomake.helsinki.fi
February 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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profgalloway.com
A point to consider.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Feb 15
This is probably the most accurate take.
February 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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cullenhendrix.bsky.social
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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themrise.bsky.social
The (Indian) author forgot to mention that no part of this “relocation” was voluntary and by choice. That it was bloody, traumatic and fractured an entire continent forever. That it tore families apart forever, including mine. @wsj.com has really set the bar for bigotry too low.
February 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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onethuthree.bsky.social
This was a bad week for Germany, and for the EU. A stable German government seems, after what we have witnessed, further away than ever. This is not good news at a time when Trump is US President, France remains very instable, and everyone is hoping for the next DE government to take on leadership.
January 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
nadineansorg.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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oldsoulprose.bsky.social
check on people
they are not okay
even the strong ones
I am not okay
I joke a lot
I hide it
but be nice
check on
your peoples
January 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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codendahl.bsky.social
Wow.

#Merz is so solidly in charge of the CDU and his campaign that no other than Angela #Merkel felt compelled to intervene (not her style at all, under different circumstances). www.buero-bundeskanzlerin-ad.de/erklaerungen...
Erklärung von Bundeskanzlerin a. D. Dr. Angela Merkel zur Abstimmung im Deutschen Bundestag am 29. Januar 2025
www.buero-bundeskanzlerin-ad.de
January 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM