Our special issue on violence and peace in contested cities is now published in full by Peacebuilding. Do check it out - a tremendous collection of empirically grounded, theory-developing work, covering cities from around the world! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpcb20/1...

POV: When you are doing the last grading and feel you are on top of things ahead of Christmas, and get a reminder about the two reviews you promised to do which are due on 28th December

The article uses assemblage theory (which Brendan has published extensively on - see e.g. book below) and combines our own data on conflict-related violence in postwar cities with other geocoded socioeconomic data to identify different forms of postwar spaces using factor analysis

Me and @krishogl.bsky.social are in Nairobi, discussing initial results from a survey and had a chance to get a pic with the implementing team spearheaded by Patrick Mutahi and Benard Okasi! The survey covers two low-income areas and highlights security challenges of residents. #polisky #afripolsky

Why does Kenya want to lead a police mission in Haiti and what are the prospects of success? Me, @krishogl.bsky.social and Patrick Mutahi summarize our take based on our research on police in Kenya in this blog post:
urbanviolence.org/why-kenya-wa... #polisky #conflictsky

Thrilled to be en route to my first SWEPSA (Swedish poli sci conference)! Looking forward to present ongoing work on urban electoral violence and network with other Swedish political scientists. Great program in international politics section headed by Lisa Dellmuth and Magnus Lundgren!

We need to rebuild/migrate the PoliSciKnits community on here!