Susan Brewer-Osorio
@brewerosorio.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Latin Americanist, UArizona Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Scholar researching reintegration and community peacebuilding in Colombia, Val's mom, rescue dog&cat mom, runner, feminist, crocheter, tanguera.
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Collective Reintegration and Gender Relations among Ex-Combatants Lessons from Colombia
Female combatants often experience empowerment during armed conflict that is seldom preserved after a peace deal. Empowerment of women fighters is associated with gender equality practices within a...
www.tandfonline.com
Excited to share my article, Collective Reintegration and Gender Relations among Ex-Combatants Lessons from Colombia, published in International Peacekeeping. I analyze how collective reintegration of FARC in Colombia shaped gender relations among ex-combatants.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HG7MK...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HG7MK...
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Calling on engaged civil society to meet this moment defending our democracy… each in our own way, reach out to neighbors, find one thing you can do this week— who can make a poster and put it in your window, facing the street, sharing your support for democracy? What will your poster say?
History shows a legislative strategy alone is not sufficient to defeat fascists and dictators. You need organized civil society fighting back along with persistent legislative defense of democratic institutions and programs.
March 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Calling on engaged civil society to meet this moment defending our democracy… each in our own way, reach out to neighbors, find one thing you can do this week— who can make a poster and put it in your window, facing the street, sharing your support for democracy? What will your poster say?
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Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
March 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
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Technically, USIP is not part of the White House chain of command, and DOGE should have no authority to tell them to do anything or demand entry. The statute spells out processes for the president to remove members of the board of directors, but doesn't give the WH any direct control over operations
March 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Technically, USIP is not part of the White House chain of command, and DOGE should have no authority to tell them to do anything or demand entry. The statute spells out processes for the president to remove members of the board of directors, but doesn't give the WH any direct control over operations
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Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political
March 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political
I was excited about the prospects of an IAF grant to support a collaboration with community-based coffee cooperatives in Colombia. We’ll keep looking for funds, but this was a disappointing setback. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I was excited about the prospects of an IAF grant to support a collaboration with community-based coffee cooperatives in Colombia. We’ll keep looking for funds, but this was a disappointing setback. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Excited to share my article, Collective Reintegration and Gender Relations among Ex-Combatants Lessons from Colombia, published in International Peacekeeping. I analyze how collective reintegration of FARC in Colombia shaped gender relations among ex-combatants.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HG7MK...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HG7MK...
Collective Reintegration and Gender Relations among Ex-Combatants Lessons from Colombia
Female combatants often experience empowerment during armed conflict that is seldom preserved after a peace deal. Empowerment of women fighters is associated with gender equality practices within a...
www.tandfonline.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Excited to share my article, Collective Reintegration and Gender Relations among Ex-Combatants Lessons from Colombia, published in International Peacekeeping. I analyze how collective reintegration of FARC in Colombia shaped gender relations among ex-combatants.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HG7MK...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HG7MK...
Political scientists: Please consider applying to the APSA Virtual Research Group Workshop, “Advancing the Use of Computational Tools in Political Science.” to learn about Large Language Models (LLMs) for data collection. More info: connect.apsanet.org/vrm2025/2025.... Deadline is February 14th.
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January 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Political scientists: Please consider applying to the APSA Virtual Research Group Workshop, “Advancing the Use of Computational Tools in Political Science.” to learn about Large Language Models (LLMs) for data collection. More info: connect.apsanet.org/vrm2025/2025.... Deadline is February 14th.
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Want to understand what's truly happening with the Executive Order 'Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border'?
And the legal constraints/challenges ahead in courts and inside the Pentagon?
I am grateful to @marknevitt.bsky.social for lending his expertise on this.⬇️
A must read.
And the legal constraints/challenges ahead in courts and inside the Pentagon?
I am grateful to @marknevitt.bsky.social for lending his expertise on this.⬇️
A must read.
What Just Happened: Unpacking Exec Order on National Emergency at the Southern Border
An expert explainer on the Executive Order Declaring National Emergency Southern Border and deployment of troops.
www.justsecurity.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Want to understand what's truly happening with the Executive Order 'Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border'?
And the legal constraints/challenges ahead in courts and inside the Pentagon?
I am grateful to @marknevitt.bsky.social for lending his expertise on this.⬇️
A must read.
And the legal constraints/challenges ahead in courts and inside the Pentagon?
I am grateful to @marknevitt.bsky.social for lending his expertise on this.⬇️
A must read.
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It is a sad day for Columbia and us all when a respected scholar is pushed to "retire" because of attacks from within and outside the university. What does academic freedom mean under these conditions? Genuinely asking here, bc these kinds of attacks are not going to end with Katherine Franke
January 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It is a sad day for Columbia and us all when a respected scholar is pushed to "retire" because of attacks from within and outside the university. What does academic freedom mean under these conditions? Genuinely asking here, bc these kinds of attacks are not going to end with Katherine Franke
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Está invitado para CIENCIA EN ESPAÑOL
I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too!
events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/...
#CIENCIAENESPAÑOL
I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too!
events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/...
#CIENCIAENESPAÑOL
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January 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Está invitado para CIENCIA EN ESPAÑOL
I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too!
events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/...
#CIENCIAENESPAÑOL
I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too!
events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/...
#CIENCIAENESPAÑOL
The ousting of a brutal dictator gives hope, but I worry for Syria. History teaches that revolutions by force do not lead to democratic outcomes. Russia, China, Mexico, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua...all popular revolutions that culminated in authoritarianism.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Syrian opposition grants army soldiers amnesty after fall of al-Assad
The new administration is promising to uphold state institutions after capturing the capital, Damascus.
www.aljazeera.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:13 PM
The ousting of a brutal dictator gives hope, but I worry for Syria. History teaches that revolutions by force do not lead to democratic outcomes. Russia, China, Mexico, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua...all popular revolutions that culminated in authoritarianism.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS!
Women NATIONWIDE can still receive safe, effective and affordable medication abortion services via the #ASafeChoice Network of physicians.
Please share 🙏🏼.
social.demcast.com/s/Y4YK58sE
Women NATIONWIDE can still receive safe, effective and affordable medication abortion services via the #ASafeChoice Network of physicians.
Please share 🙏🏼.
social.demcast.com/s/Y4YK58sE
December 4, 2024 at 9:17 PM
EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS!
Women NATIONWIDE can still receive safe, effective and affordable medication abortion services via the #ASafeChoice Network of physicians.
Please share 🙏🏼.
social.demcast.com/s/Y4YK58sE
Women NATIONWIDE can still receive safe, effective and affordable medication abortion services via the #ASafeChoice Network of physicians.
Please share 🙏🏼.
social.demcast.com/s/Y4YK58sE
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What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are:
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
December 5, 2024 at 3:57 PM
What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are:
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
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If people are looking to get involved. Find your local Indivisible Group. I know our local is going to start having meetings beginning in January. indivisible.org
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indivisible.org
November 12, 2024 at 7:42 PM
If people are looking to get involved. Find your local Indivisible Group. I know our local is going to start having meetings beginning in January. indivisible.org
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There were resistance movements against Pinochet’s regime, against the Nazis, and against the Apartheid regime in South Africa. In the face of annihilationist regimes resistance succeeded.
They succeeded because people found myriad ways to work together, and didn’t give in to hopelessness.
They succeeded because people found myriad ways to work together, and didn’t give in to hopelessness.
Most every time I post about politics nowadays, I get a number of replies from people saying stuff along the lines of “we’re all doomed and you’re a naive idiot if you aren’t cowering in a hole waiting for death.”
Even if you feel utterly doomed, why are you trying to spread it to others?
Even if you feel utterly doomed, why are you trying to spread it to others?
I am trying to be patient because I 100% get that people are terrified but I am really struggling with all this knee-jerk public defeatism from other liberals and leftists right now
November 26, 2024 at 1:15 PM
There were resistance movements against Pinochet’s regime, against the Nazis, and against the Apartheid regime in South Africa. In the face of annihilationist regimes resistance succeeded.
They succeeded because people found myriad ways to work together, and didn’t give in to hopelessness.
They succeeded because people found myriad ways to work together, and didn’t give in to hopelessness.
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Vigilantes are back harassing churches, humanitarian groups, and the Casa Alitas migrant shelter in Tucson. They're trying to break into places and posting videos on X tagging Musk.
November 25, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Vigilantes are back harassing churches, humanitarian groups, and the Casa Alitas migrant shelter in Tucson. They're trying to break into places and posting videos on X tagging Musk.
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Started / Going
November 21, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Started / Going
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The government of El Salvador used to track the number of disappearances in the country, which showed them rising proportionally to the drop in homicides. Then they stopped counting, and closed the disappearances office. Its old Twitter link is now vacant: x.com/desaparecidoFGR
x.com
x.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:39 PM
The government of El Salvador used to track the number of disappearances in the country, which showed them rising proportionally to the drop in homicides. Then they stopped counting, and closed the disappearances office. Its old Twitter link is now vacant: x.com/desaparecidoFGR
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A working list of researchers, practitioners, and organizations working on transitional justice, please let me know if I missed you or anyone else who should be added! bsky.app/starter-pack... Some overlap with but narrower focus than my other list on humanitarian aid, peacebuilding & development.
November 17, 2024 at 10:16 PM
A working list of researchers, practitioners, and organizations working on transitional justice, please let me know if I missed you or anyone else who should be added! bsky.app/starter-pack... Some overlap with but narrower focus than my other list on humanitarian aid, peacebuilding & development.
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Authoritarian politicians may feel empowered by Trump's win.
Other leaders should step up and defend human rights.
Brazil can play a key role as a Global South democracy and host to G20, BRICS & COP. But it needs a consistent foreign policy.
My piece:
www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...
Other leaders should step up and defend human rights.
Brazil can play a key role as a Global South democracy and host to G20, BRICS & COP. But it needs a consistent foreign policy.
My piece:
www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...
After Trump Win, Brazil Needs to Step Up Rights Diplomacy
While the United States has often fallen short of its stated commitment to defend democracy and human rights globally, under President-elect Donald Trump it seems poised to hit a new low.
www.hrw.org
November 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Authoritarian politicians may feel empowered by Trump's win.
Other leaders should step up and defend human rights.
Brazil can play a key role as a Global South democracy and host to G20, BRICS & COP. But it needs a consistent foreign policy.
My piece:
www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...
Other leaders should step up and defend human rights.
Brazil can play a key role as a Global South democracy and host to G20, BRICS & COP. But it needs a consistent foreign policy.
My piece:
www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...
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Follow the account and repost this if you’re interested! Tag @polviolencepapers.bsky.social when sharing your working paper on armed conflict, civil war, insurgency, terrorism, extremism, or post-conflict state/society to get it reposted.
November 17, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Follow the account and repost this if you’re interested! Tag @polviolencepapers.bsky.social when sharing your working paper on armed conflict, civil war, insurgency, terrorism, extremism, or post-conflict state/society to get it reposted.
Two of our fur kids 🐶🐶
Your first post should me memorable. This is mine :)
November 17, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Two of our fur kids 🐶🐶
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This workshop will be amazing! “State Capacity, State Formation and Non-State Governance”, Monday November 18 at the Harris School, UChicago. harris.uchicago.edu/news-events/...
State Capacity, State Formation and Non-State Governance | The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
harris.uchicago.edu
November 15, 2024 at 9:40 PM
This workshop will be amazing! “State Capacity, State Formation and Non-State Governance”, Monday November 18 at the Harris School, UChicago. harris.uchicago.edu/news-events/...
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Hello! I thought a list of women scholars in conflict and security studies could be helpful! Let me know if you want to be added/removed! go.bsky.app/Np3NivX
November 14, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Hello! I thought a list of women scholars in conflict and security studies could be helpful! Let me know if you want to be added/removed! go.bsky.app/Np3NivX
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I wrote about what’s different than in 2016/17 - about Trump, the radical Right, the Republican Party, the courts (especially the Court), civil society, political culture…
“Malevolence tempered by incompetence” was a prominent take on Trump I. Don’t think there will be much tempering this time.
“Malevolence tempered by incompetence” was a prominent take on Trump I. Don’t think there will be much tempering this time.
Why the Second Trump Regime Will Be Far More Dangerous
This will be a much more radical regime – and it will operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its extremist cause.
New piece:
This will be a much more radical regime – and it will operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its extremist cause.
New piece:
Why the Second Trump Regime Will Be Far More Dangerous
This will be a much more radical regime – and it will operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its extremist cause
thomaszimmer.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:17 AM
I wrote about what’s different than in 2016/17 - about Trump, the radical Right, the Republican Party, the courts (especially the Court), civil society, political culture…
“Malevolence tempered by incompetence” was a prominent take on Trump I. Don’t think there will be much tempering this time.
“Malevolence tempered by incompetence” was a prominent take on Trump I. Don’t think there will be much tempering this time.