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Dylan O'Driscoll
@dylan-odriscoll.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Peace & Conflict at Centre for Peace and Security (CPS), Coventry University | Associate Senior Fellow @sipri.org | Drivers of conflict and pathways to peace | Bridging academia & policy
In my latest paper with colleagues from ISS and GIZ, we examine the need for peacebuilding to be better integrated across aid.
The world is facing unrelenting and interrelated environmental, ecological, demographic, socio-economic and political pressures.

This new #SIPRI paper explores the opportunities and processes for reforming aid provision in fragile settings ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/QUU...
February 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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There are many starter packs out there more generally on peace and conflict, but wanted one for those people that specifically focus more on the local and everyday. Please reach out if you want to be added.
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November 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Check out our latest open access article with Eric Lepp, Birte Vogel, and Dan Morecroft-Rice, which is published in @jisb.bsky.social and develops a spatio-temporal method to understand the local through graffiti.

➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1750...
January 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Funded PhD opportunity at the Centre for Peace and Security with Aurélie Bröckerhoff, Elly Harrowell and myself - entitled "The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies".

➡️ www.coventry.ac.uk/research/res...
The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies
This three-year funded PhD studentship enables research into the everyday economic spaces and practices that emerge during and following war, exploring the peace potential they offer to conflict-affec...
www.coventry.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Do you want to work with world-class conflict researchers in a supportive environment? Come be my new colleague! @uupeace.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Senior Lecturer. More info here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

and here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Conflictsky
December 10, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Funded PhD opportunity at the Centre for Peace and Security with Aurélie Bröckerhoff, Elly Harrowell and myself - entitled "The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies".

➡️ www.coventry.ac.uk/research/res...
The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies
This three-year funded PhD studentship enables research into the everyday economic spaces and practices that emerge during and following war, exploring the peace potential they offer to conflict-affec...
www.coventry.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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We are incredibly excited to announce that this wonderful Special Issue is out with Issue 4 of 2024!

Edited by Sladjana Lazic and Elena B Stravrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social

Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace
Read the intro👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace
This Special Issue delves into the concept of peace beyond traditional definitions, engaging with decolonial and feminist perspectives to emphasize peace not merely as the absence of war or conflic...
www.tandfonline.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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We have an article published in the November issue of @politicalgeography.bsky.social. In this article we develop an analytical framework around the concepts of ‘theft of time’ and ‘stolen dignity’ to examine the impact of checkpoints on people's everyday lives in Iraq.

➡️https://rb.gy/rdxr9t
November 25, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Come and work with me at @prif.org! We are looking for a #Postdoc working on #peace and #security in the #Anthropocene (3 year contract, starting immediately, based in #Frankfurt)

www.prif.org/en/career/va...
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in the field of “Peace and Security in the Anthropocene”
Full-time, salary group 13 TV-H*, immediately until the 31st of December 2027 (acc. to WissZeitVG § 2 paragraph 1**)
www.prif.org
November 28, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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Hello academic folks. Do you work on Multilateralism? Come to Stockholm. Our workshop on “The future of multilateralism in
peace, security and development”. We will cover everything.
November 25, 2024 at 1:55 PM
We have an article published in the November issue of @politicalgeography.bsky.social. In this article we develop an analytical framework around the concepts of ‘theft of time’ and ‘stolen dignity’ to examine the impact of checkpoints on people's everyday lives in Iraq.

➡️https://rb.gy/rdxr9t
November 25, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Let's test Bluesky's networking potential!

Who works on local security with a comparative approach?

We just got pilot funding, but will expand afterwards: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/projects/...

Get in touch and link ppl in replies! Will create a Starter Pack.
#conflictsky #afripolsky
Exploring opportunities for decolonial cross area comparison – Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo | Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Funded by the De/Coloniality Now initiative, this research project brings together a multidisciplinary team of German, Central African and Congolese researchers.
www.arnold-bergstraesser.de
November 15, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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The runner-up to our 2024 JISB Innovation Prize! 🙌
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ris....

'The Failure of the Social Contract in Iraq: Iraqi Perspectives'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Lucia Ardovini and @dylan-odriscoll.bsky.social for this exceptional contribution 🎊
The Failure of the Social Contract in Iraq: Iraqi Perspectives
This article focuses on the failure of the post-2003 social contract in Iraq. It relies on extensive primary data collected in all of Iraq's 19 provinces through Focus Groups and Online Surveys. It...
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Excellent starter pack on Local and everyday peace by @dylan-odriscoll.bsky.social.

Add your suggestions!

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November 12, 2024 at 4:47 PM
There are many starter packs out there more generally on peace and conflict, but wanted one for those people that specifically focus more on the local and everyday. Please reach out if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/5zcdot5
November 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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As people are leaving X and joining Bluesky instead, here is a starter pack of peace and conflict researchers for all new users ⤵️

go.bsky.app/7o8tZt2
November 9, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Together with Omran Ali & Remonda Armia we have published a new article in Political Geography. The article uses the concepts of the ‘theft of time’ and ‘stolen dignity’ to examine the impact of checkpoints on the everyday lives of people in Nineveh, Iraq.

➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
October 15, 2024 at 5:16 PM
In this open access International Affairs article, Florian Krampe, McKenzie Johnson, Dahlia Simangan, Farah Hegazi, Cedric de Coning and I lay out what we see as a research agenda for climate change and peacebuilding.

Great to work with this multidisciplinary team.

doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
April 24, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Honoured to have been part of this special issue.
Our Special Issue reflecting on 20 years since the invasion of #Iraq was published at the end of the year in International Peacekeeping. Articles cover governance, liberal peace, security sector reform, local dynamics, and much more. Check it out www.tandfonline.com/toc/finp20/c...
February 2, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Our Special Issue reflecting on 20 years since the invasion of #Iraq was published at the end of the year in International Peacekeeping. Articles cover governance, liberal peace, security sector reform, local dynamics, and much more. Check it out www.tandfonline.com/toc/finp20/c...
January 3, 2024 at 9:24 PM