Babak Bahador
@babak9.bsky.social
Research media/coms and peacebuilding at George Washington University (GWU). Direct, Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication (GWU), Media & Peacebuilding Project (GWU), Peace News Network: https://bsky.app/profile/peacenewsnet.bsky.social
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Join us on Wednesday, December 3rd, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to hear Her Excellency Svanhildur Hólm Valsdóttir, Ambassador of Iceland to the United States of America. Scan the QR code to register; you won't want to miss this event!
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Join us on Wednesday, December 3rd, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to hear Her Excellency Svanhildur Hólm Valsdóttir, Ambassador of Iceland to the United States of America. Scan the QR code to register; you won't want to miss this event!
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Last week, we had the opportunity to host our 25th Anniversary Conference on The Future of Public Diplomacy. This 2-day conference brought leading public diplomacy practitioners and scholars together to celebrate IPDGC and examine the future of the field. @smpagwu.bsky.social @gwu1821.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Last week, we had the opportunity to host our 25th Anniversary Conference on The Future of Public Diplomacy. This 2-day conference brought leading public diplomacy practitioners and scholars together to celebrate IPDGC and examine the future of the field. @smpagwu.bsky.social @gwu1821.bsky.social
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Big CfP: ICA preconference in Cape Town, 3 June 2026, for our Media, War and Conflict journal. Theme: Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting bit.ly/mwcpreconfer... - any questions can be emailed to the organisers at: r.j.stupart@liverpool.ac.uk. Thanks to @icahdq.bsky.social!
Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting Preconference
The journalism of war and conflict is facing extraordinary threats. Israel's ongoing assault in Gaza has killed a historically unprecedented number of journalists at a time when the norms protecting t...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Big CfP: ICA preconference in Cape Town, 3 June 2026, for our Media, War and Conflict journal. Theme: Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting bit.ly/mwcpreconfer... - any questions can be emailed to the organisers at: r.j.stupart@liverpool.ac.uk. Thanks to @icahdq.bsky.social!
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New Article Spotlight: What Does Peace Journalism Mean to Peace Journalists in East Africa?
A study revealed that journalists tended to understand peace journalism in one of two ways.
By Doll @meagandoll.bsky.social of @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social.
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A study revealed that journalists tended to understand peace journalism in one of two ways.
By Doll @meagandoll.bsky.social of @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social.
Read here:
peacenews.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New Article Spotlight: What Does Peace Journalism Mean to Peace Journalists in East Africa?
A study revealed that journalists tended to understand peace journalism in one of two ways.
By Doll @meagandoll.bsky.social of @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social.
Read here:
A study revealed that journalists tended to understand peace journalism in one of two ways.
By Doll @meagandoll.bsky.social of @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social.
Read here:
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What can the EU and Europeans do about this study showing many US citizens don't really rate it as an ally or as significant? Does the EU have a story any more? New study by @babak9.bsky.social and Gabriel Savagner sets the scene: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times
Perceptions of the European Union (EU) in the United States (US) have changed notably over the past decade. While the EU is still viewed positively overall, liberals view it more favourably than co...
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August 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
What can the EU and Europeans do about this study showing many US citizens don't really rate it as an ally or as significant? Does the EU have a story any more? New study by @babak9.bsky.social and Gabriel Savagner sets the scene: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Excited to be a George Washington University visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication, enriching the work I'm doing at @lucyinstitute-nd.bsky.social. Thanks to @babak9.bsky.social for inviting me, I hope many collaborations may flourish! smpa.gwu.edu/emma-briant
Briant, Emma L. | School of Media & Public Affairs | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University
Emma L. Briant is a researcher at the School of Media and Public Affairs.
smpa.gwu.edu
August 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Excited to be a George Washington University visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication, enriching the work I'm doing at @lucyinstitute-nd.bsky.social. Thanks to @babak9.bsky.social for inviting me, I hope many collaborations may flourish! smpa.gwu.edu/emma-briant
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The entire Open Access book is now available for FREE download here:
academic.oup.com/book/60493
academic.oup.com/book/60493
Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy
Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar
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July 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The entire Open Access book is now available for FREE download here:
academic.oup.com/book/60493
academic.oup.com/book/60493
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Invitation to potential authors - AI Politics: new book series by @intellectbooks.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social edited by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I. View the full call here>>
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April 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Invitation to potential authors - AI Politics: new book series by @intellectbooks.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social edited by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I. View the full call here>>
www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/a...
www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/a...
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New by Steven Livingston and @babak9.bsky.social on why narrative and rituals matter more than truth in US politics.
Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/P6FHA...
Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/P6FHA...
Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio - Steven Livingston, Babak Bahador, 2025
The goal of this paper is to deepen the clarity of Benkler, Farris, and Robert’s “propaganda feedback loop” concept. It argues that a sizeable portion of the in...
journals.sagepub.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
New by Steven Livingston and @babak9.bsky.social on why narrative and rituals matter more than truth in US politics.
Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/P6FHA...
Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/P6FHA...
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Happy to share that our book is out! A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition (OUP) theorizes NGOs through their relations to understand their power & effects in global politics. TY to all contributing authors! Open access!
academic.oup.com/book/59913
academic.oup.com/book/59913
A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition
Abstract. How do nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) create the spaces in which they act, despite all the odds against them? How do NGOs seem to meet the
academic.oup.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Happy to share that our book is out! A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition (OUP) theorizes NGOs through their relations to understand their power & effects in global politics. TY to all contributing authors! Open access!
academic.oup.com/book/59913
academic.oup.com/book/59913
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Happy to see this new publication w/ my dear friend Babak Bahador. We fit Benkler et al's propaganda feedback loop concept into James Carey's communication ritual framework, arguing that the logic of the former is explained by the latter. shorturl.at/u0pOF
Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio - Steven Livingston, Babak Bahador, 2025
The goal of this paper is to deepen the clarity of Benkler, Farris, and Robert’s “propaganda feedback loop” concept. It argues that a sizeable portion of the in...
shorturl.at
April 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Happy to see this new publication w/ my dear friend Babak Bahador. We fit Benkler et al's propaganda feedback loop concept into James Carey's communication ritual framework, arguing that the logic of the former is explained by the latter. shorturl.at/u0pOF
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The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open!
Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.
📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)
More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.
📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)
More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
2025 Political Communication APSA Preconference
u.osu.edu
April 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open!
Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.
📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)
More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.
📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)
More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/
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GW's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication is hosting a series of upcoming webinars around the recent publication of the book I edited, Handbook on Public Diplomacy. I'll be talking to some of the amazing authors about their work and contemporary PD issues and challenges. Join us!
February 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
GW's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication is hosting a series of upcoming webinars around the recent publication of the book I edited, Handbook on Public Diplomacy. I'll be talking to some of the amazing authors about their work and contemporary PD issues and challenges. Join us!
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New Article Spotlight: Kosovo’s Long Path to Lasting Peace
One year after #Kosovo celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its de facto independence, the country still struggles to secure peace.
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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One year after #Kosovo celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its de facto independence, the country still struggles to secure peace.
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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March 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
New Article Spotlight: Kosovo’s Long Path to Lasting Peace
One year after #Kosovo celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its de facto independence, the country still struggles to secure peace.
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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One year after #Kosovo celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its de facto independence, the country still struggles to secure peace.
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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New Article Spotlight: Peace Desperately Needed as M23 Rebels Claim Takeover of Goma, DRC.
#GOMA_RDC #Congo #congoIsBleeding
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#GOMA_RDC #Congo #congoIsBleeding
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January 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
New Article Spotlight: Peace Desperately Needed as M23 Rebels Claim Takeover of Goma, DRC.
#GOMA_RDC #Congo #congoIsBleeding
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#GOMA_RDC #Congo #congoIsBleeding
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Great choice of thumbnail to accompany our op-ed about Zuckerberg’s techbro power play flexing exceptional American values against calls for global tech justice. Co authored with my own academic “bro” @tomdivon.bsky.social 🔥💪🏽
Mark Zuckeberg’s announcement of sweeping changes to content moderation at Meta signaled a new alliance between Silicon Valley and Washington against global tech regulation, write Tom Divon and Jonathan Corpus Ong. The stakes are immense, especially in the Global South.
Tech Bro Power Play: Zuckerberg vs. Global Tech Justice | TechPolicy.Press
Tuesday's announcement signaled a new alliance between Silicon Valley and Washington against regulation and tech justice, write Tom Divon and Jonathan Corpus Ong.
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January 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Great choice of thumbnail to accompany our op-ed about Zuckerberg’s techbro power play flexing exceptional American values against calls for global tech justice. Co authored with my own academic “bro” @tomdivon.bsky.social 🔥💪🏽
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New Article Spotlight: The late president did not always perfectly embody his human rights rhetoric while in office, but spent the rest of his life waging peace. By Pablo Molina Asensi.
#JimmyCarter
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#JimmyCarter
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January 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
New Article Spotlight: The late president did not always perfectly embody his human rights rhetoric while in office, but spent the rest of his life waging peace. By Pablo Molina Asensi.
#JimmyCarter
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#JimmyCarter
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New Article Spotlight: As we start a new year, we are sharing our top 10 most viewed articles of 2024.
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January 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
New Article Spotlight: As we start a new year, we are sharing our top 10 most viewed articles of 2024.
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Costa Rica ads get right to the point!
December 31, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Costa Rica ads get right to the point!
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2024 is now the deadliest year on record for humanitarian workers.
This cannot continue.
Volunteers, staff, and humanitarians everywhere must be protected—and the need is urgent.
Together, we can #ProtectHumanity.
This cannot continue.
Volunteers, staff, and humanitarians everywhere must be protected—and the need is urgent.
Together, we can #ProtectHumanity.
December 28, 2024 at 2:38 PM
2024 is now the deadliest year on record for humanitarian workers.
This cannot continue.
Volunteers, staff, and humanitarians everywhere must be protected—and the need is urgent.
Together, we can #ProtectHumanity.
This cannot continue.
Volunteers, staff, and humanitarians everywhere must be protected—and the need is urgent.
Together, we can #ProtectHumanity.
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New Article Spotlight: Peace studies as a field of research has historically overlooked critical aspects of environment in conflict, and environmental violence, writes Dr. Richard Marcantonio.
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December 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM
New Article Spotlight: Peace studies as a field of research has historically overlooked critical aspects of environment in conflict, and environmental violence, writes Dr. Richard Marcantonio.
Read here:
https://buff.ly/3VCsmmJ
Read here:
https://buff.ly/3VCsmmJ
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Last week, Angela Lederach shared three lessons that she has learned from the Colombian campesino approach to "peace without hurry."
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Slow Peace: Three Lessons from Grassroots Peacebuilders in Colombia - Peace News Network
What does the Colombian campesino approach to "peace without hurry" entail? Angela Lederach shares three lessons she has learned.
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December 10, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Last week, Angela Lederach shared three lessons that she has learned from the Colombian campesino approach to "peace without hurry."
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Our CfP: Hubris in International Relations - now on the official @mybisa.bsky.social site here: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/call-pa... Send us an abstract: Monday 6 January 2025. Hopefully see you in Belfast in June. 🌞🚢 Co-organised with @profmiskimmon.bsky.social & @adamblerner.bsky.social
Call for papers: Hubris in International Relations research workshop
Call for papers for a 'Hubris in International Relations' workshop taking place in Belfast in 2025.
www.bisa.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Our CfP: Hubris in International Relations - now on the official @mybisa.bsky.social site here: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/call-pa... Send us an abstract: Monday 6 January 2025. Hopefully see you in Belfast in June. 🌞🚢 Co-organised with @profmiskimmon.bsky.social & @adamblerner.bsky.social
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I’m working on a starter pack for those interested in WPS. I’m struggling with the search function on Blue Sky. Please let me know if you’d like to be added.
go.bsky.app/QF29N6Y
go.bsky.app/QF29N6Y
November 13, 2024 at 10:31 AM
I’m working on a starter pack for those interested in WPS. I’m struggling with the search function on Blue Sky. Please let me know if you’d like to be added.
go.bsky.app/QF29N6Y
go.bsky.app/QF29N6Y