Aila Matanock
@matanock.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD. I study political violence & international intervention & order/policing. Opinions are my own.
Absolutely delighted to be working more with
@ucigcc.bsky.social - such a fantastic organization!
@ucigcc.bsky.social - such a fantastic organization!
IGCC is pleased to welcome Aila Matanock (@matanock.bsky.social) to the institute's leadership as Research Director for Violence, Intervention, and Order. Aila, an IGCC affiliate since 2022, is an associate professor at @gpsucsd.bsky.social. Learn more about Aila here: ucigcc.org/people/aila-...
Aila Matanock - IGCC
Aila M. Matanock is an associate professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and IGCC research director for violence, intervention, and order. Her research addresses post-confli...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Absolutely delighted to be working more with
@ucigcc.bsky.social - such a fantastic organization!
@ucigcc.bsky.social - such a fantastic organization!
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For today's spotlight on EGAPers researching #conflict, read about @matanock.bsky.social work with Miguel Garcia-Sanchez to measure social support during counterinsurgency in Colombia.
Read more at buff.ly/Py6JVO0
Read more at buff.ly/Py6JVO0
Brief 46: Measuring Social Support During Counterinsurgency in Colombia – EGAP
EGAP researcher: Aila Matanock
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September 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
For today's spotlight on EGAPers researching #conflict, read about @matanock.bsky.social work with Miguel Garcia-Sanchez to measure social support during counterinsurgency in Colombia.
Read more at buff.ly/Py6JVO0
Read more at buff.ly/Py6JVO0
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Are you a researcher or practitioners focused on governance, politics, & institutions displaced by recent policy shifts? EGAP is providing a platform to continue vital conversations and evidence-sharing!
Learn more & apply here: buff.ly/J5BOmVK
Learn more & apply here: buff.ly/J5BOmVK
July 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Are you a researcher or practitioners focused on governance, politics, & institutions displaced by recent policy shifts? EGAP is providing a platform to continue vital conversations and evidence-sharing!
Learn more & apply here: buff.ly/J5BOmVK
Learn more & apply here: buff.ly/J5BOmVK
A fantastic panel kicking off the Empirical Studies of Conflict meeting in Taipei thanks to the organizing work of @renardsexton.bsky.social and NTU! Chia-yi Lee @dotanhaim.bsky.social @emilyrussell.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
A fantastic panel kicking off the Empirical Studies of Conflict meeting in Taipei thanks to the organizing work of @renardsexton.bsky.social and NTU! Chia-yi Lee @dotanhaim.bsky.social @emilyrussell.bsky.social
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🌏 Insights from CEGA’s latest blog post show how Southeast Asian countries are responding to geopolitical competition, security threats, and rising power rivalries.
🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/SEAsiaInsights
🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/SEAsiaInsights
New Threats, Ad-hoc Networks, and Strategic Flexibility: Security Insights from Southeast Asia
On March 26 and 27, 2025, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Center for Asia Globalization (CAG) hosted the “Workshop on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order: Southeast...
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May 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🌏 Insights from CEGA’s latest blog post show how Southeast Asian countries are responding to geopolitical competition, security threats, and rising power rivalries.
🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/SEAsiaInsights
🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/SEAsiaInsights
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Please circulate!
@wpmarble
and I are looking for a part-time RA to help with various data tasks. This is a remote-work position that is ideal for recent graduates who are considering applying for a social science PhD. Apply here: forms.gle/EN3JLUiNm8m4...
@wpmarble
and I are looking for a part-time RA to help with various data tasks. This is a remote-work position that is ideal for recent graduates who are considering applying for a social science PhD. Apply here: forms.gle/EN3JLUiNm8m4...
Research Assistant Position with Malik and Marble
Prof. Mashail Malik (Harvard) and Dr. William Marble (Stanford) are searching for a part-time research assistant (RA) primarily for a project on the political integration of immigrants in the United S...
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May 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Please circulate!
@wpmarble
and I are looking for a part-time RA to help with various data tasks. This is a remote-work position that is ideal for recent graduates who are considering applying for a social science PhD. Apply here: forms.gle/EN3JLUiNm8m4...
@wpmarble
and I are looking for a part-time RA to help with various data tasks. This is a remote-work position that is ideal for recent graduates who are considering applying for a social science PhD. Apply here: forms.gle/EN3JLUiNm8m4...
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Please Share: Do you know talented young people considering doing a PhD? the @snfagora.bsky.social at @JHU will welcome at least two pre-doctoral fellows for AY25-27.
snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-ac...
#gendersky #econsky #polisky #academicsky #predoc #fellow
snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-ac...
#gendersky #econsky #polisky #academicsky #predoc #fellow
SNF Agora Academy Predoctoral Fellowship : Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins
Strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue
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May 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Please Share: Do you know talented young people considering doing a PhD? the @snfagora.bsky.social at @JHU will welcome at least two pre-doctoral fellows for AY25-27.
snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-ac...
#gendersky #econsky #polisky #academicsky #predoc #fellow
snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-ac...
#gendersky #econsky #polisky #academicsky #predoc #fellow
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#NewCEGABlog: Pacific for Whom?
CEGA recently convened leading security experts from the Pacific region to explore how geopolitical competition interacts with foreign aid and security arrangements.
Learn more here:
go.cega.org/blogPacificForWhom
CEGA recently convened leading security experts from the Pacific region to explore how geopolitical competition interacts with foreign aid and security arrangements.
Learn more here:
go.cega.org/blogPacificForWhom
Pacific for Whom? Order Contestation in the Pacific Region
On February 24, 2025, CEGA hosted the Pacific Conference on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order at the East-West Center and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In this post, CEGA’s...
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May 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
#NewCEGABlog: Pacific for Whom?
CEGA recently convened leading security experts from the Pacific region to explore how geopolitical competition interacts with foreign aid and security arrangements.
Learn more here:
go.cega.org/blogPacificForWhom
CEGA recently convened leading security experts from the Pacific region to explore how geopolitical competition interacts with foreign aid and security arrangements.
Learn more here:
go.cega.org/blogPacificForWhom
Our call for the 2025 Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Annual Meeting on Geostrategic Opportunity and Upheaval on October 9-10 is up! Submissions due on June 16. W/ Yuri Zhukov @laiabalcells.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social @renardsexton.bsky.social More here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
Call for Papers and Policy Panel Proposals: 2025 ESOC Annual Meeting
CALL FOR PAPERS AND POLICY PANEL PROPOSALSSubmission Deadline: June 16, 2025The Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Project is holding its Annual Meeting October 9-10, 2025 in Washington D.C.The Annu...
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May 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Our call for the 2025 Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Annual Meeting on Geostrategic Opportunity and Upheaval on October 9-10 is up! Submissions due on June 16. W/ Yuri Zhukov @laiabalcells.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social @renardsexton.bsky.social More here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
Can't wait to head down to UCSB in a couple of weeks to help launch @wnomikos.bsky.social's fantastic book!
Amid all the uncertainty around the world, I am so honored that I get to have a book launch for Local Peace, International Builders with discussants @matanock.bsky.social and Salma Mousa.
📘 Book Link: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace
If you're in Santa Barbara on April 30th, come join us!
📘 Book Link: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace
If you're in Santa Barbara on April 30th, come join us!
April 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Can't wait to head down to UCSB in a couple of weeks to help launch @wnomikos.bsky.social's fantastic book!
Reminder that the @cega-uc.bsky.social #AES2025 deadline for speakers and posters is tomorrow - more information here: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-a...
2025 Africa Evidence Summit
CEGA and NIERA will co-host the 13th annual Africa Evidence Summit on June 23-24, 2025.
cega.berkeley.edu
February 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Reminder that the @cega-uc.bsky.social #AES2025 deadline for speakers and posters is tomorrow - more information here: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-a...
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Are you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb.
Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...
Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...
HFG Emerging Scholars - HFG
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.
www.hfg.org
January 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Are you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb.
Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...
Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...
For early-career conflict researchers: the ESOC Mentorship Program is open! It provides fellows working on conflict with individual mentors, campus engagement with them, and professional development, including attending an ESOC meeting. More details here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
ESOC Mentorship Program applications due January 20th!
We are pleased to announce the sixth year of the ESOC Mentorship Program. The purpose of this program is to support an international community of early-career investigators engaged in top-notch empiri...
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December 19, 2024 at 1:13 AM
For early-career conflict researchers: the ESOC Mentorship Program is open! It provides fellows working on conflict with individual mentors, campus engagement with them, and professional development, including attending an ESOC meeting. More details here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
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Excited to share my new article (w/ Leo Arriola & @matanock.bsky.social) published in
@polcommjournal.bsky.social
Heard the claim that #Facebook caused a genocide by fanning the flames of hate in #Myanmar? The reality may be more complicated…
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A brief 🧵 1/15
@polcommjournal.bsky.social
Heard the claim that #Facebook caused a genocide by fanning the flames of hate in #Myanmar? The reality may be more complicated…
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A brief 🧵 1/15
Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar
Are social media users in developing and conflict-affected countries more intolerant than non-users? As platforms like Facebook become increasingly viewed as drivers of polarization and violence, t...
tandfonline.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Excited to share my new article (w/ Leo Arriola & @matanock.bsky.social) published in
@polcommjournal.bsky.social
Heard the claim that #Facebook caused a genocide by fanning the flames of hate in #Myanmar? The reality may be more complicated…
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A brief 🧵 1/15
@polcommjournal.bsky.social
Heard the claim that #Facebook caused a genocide by fanning the flames of hate in #Myanmar? The reality may be more complicated…
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A brief 🧵 1/15
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Curious what happens at an EGAP meeting? Check out this recap of our plenary in Paris this past October. Many thanks to @vinarceneaux.bsky.social & CEVIPOF for hosting & to all who joined for a productive and insightful two days! egap.org/resource/egap-plenary-meeting-in-review-paris-october-2024/
December 9, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Curious what happens at an EGAP meeting? Check out this recap of our plenary in Paris this past October. Many thanks to @vinarceneaux.bsky.social & CEVIPOF for hosting & to all who joined for a productive and insightful two days! egap.org/resource/egap-plenary-meeting-in-review-paris-october-2024/
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My small contribution to helping the electoral violence researchers to reconnect and encouraging everyone else interested in the topic to follow them.
Likely to have missed some (others might still join), so comment/DM to be included.
go.bsky.app/5ULK58P
Likely to have missed some (others might still join), so comment/DM to be included.
go.bsky.app/5ULK58P
November 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM
My small contribution to helping the electoral violence researchers to reconnect and encouraging everyone else interested in the topic to follow them.
Likely to have missed some (others might still join), so comment/DM to be included.
go.bsky.app/5ULK58P
Likely to have missed some (others might still join), so comment/DM to be included.
go.bsky.app/5ULK58P
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🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025.
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Conflictsky
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Conflictsky
CRS | Cedric Smith Prize
The CRS welcomes submissions for the Cedric Smith Prize 2019 which is a peace research prize awarded for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a student
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November 19, 2024 at 7:15 AM
🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025.
conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith...
Conflictsky
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Conflictsky
So happy to finally have "Weapons of the Weak State: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding" with
@susannacampbell.bsky.social in print (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@susannacampbell.bsky.social in print (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding - The Review of International Organizations
International Organizations (IOs), such as the United Nations (U.N.), engage in statebuilding in a range of post-conflict states. Statebuilding scholarship largely assumes that IOs, backed by their po...
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September 11, 2024 at 9:30 PM
So happy to finally have "Weapons of the Weak State: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding" with
@susannacampbell.bsky.social in print (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@susannacampbell.bsky.social in print (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Many thanks to #EGAP for briefing our Journal of Conflict Resolution article with Miguel Garcia Sanchez and Natalia Garbiras Diaz about the #Colombia peace process (with applications to other peace processes currently in the works): egap.org/resource/wha...
What do politicians know about citizens’ preferences for peace agreement provisions? – EGAP
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August 21, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Many thanks to #EGAP for briefing our Journal of Conflict Resolution article with Miguel Garcia Sanchez and Natalia Garbiras Diaz about the #Colombia peace process (with applications to other peace processes currently in the works): egap.org/resource/wha...
Hoping to get some great papers - for my own curiosity especially on #Mexico #policing - for the @ESoConflict Annual Meeting (Oct 17-19, 2024 at UCLA). Please apply by June 14th! esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #conflictsky #polisky
Call for Papers: 2024 ESOC Annual Meeting
CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: June 14, 2024 The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) is holding its Annual Meeting October 17-19, 2024 at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA The Annual Meeting prog...
esoc.princeton.edu
June 5, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Hoping to get some great papers - for my own curiosity especially on #Mexico #policing - for the @ESoConflict Annual Meeting (Oct 17-19, 2024 at UCLA). Please apply by June 14th! esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #conflictsky #polisky
Thanks so much to @UCIGCC and Neil Narang/UCSB and the UC IR faculty in attendance for such a great day - got wonderful feedback and learned about some fantastic projects!
Our first presenter of the day, Aila Matanock of UC Berkeley (@matanock.bsky.social), shares her latest working paper, "Using Invited Intervention to Address Security Challenges", in collaboration with Wendy Wagner (UCSD) and Andrew Wojtanik (UC Berkeley). #UCCIC24
April 13, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Thanks so much to @UCIGCC and Neil Narang/UCSB and the UC IR faculty in attendance for such a great day - got wonderful feedback and learned about some fantastic projects!
Thrilled and still quite shocked to receive the 2024 Karl Deutsch Award from ISA last week at the annual meeting. I am lucky to have the most amazing community who makes this work possible – and fun! Many thanks to you and the selection committee. www.isanet.org/News/ID/6384... #conflictsky #polisky
2023-2024 Award Recipients
ISA 2023 - 2024 Awards Recipients Congratulations to all recipients of our 2023-2024 Awards! Awards from our Regions Asia Pacific • Karla Estephany Alvarado Romero (Best ...
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April 8, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Thrilled and still quite shocked to receive the 2024 Karl Deutsch Award from ISA last week at the annual meeting. I am lucky to have the most amazing community who makes this work possible – and fun! Many thanks to you and the selection committee. www.isanet.org/News/ID/6384... #conflictsky #polisky
Is #Facebook *the* breeding ground for intolerance? My new Political Communication piece w/ Oren Samet & Leo Arriola challenges assumptions, shows that FB users in #Myanmar are more tolerant. Social media can be a bad tool but more nuance is needed: doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #conflictsky
April 2, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Is #Facebook *the* breeding ground for intolerance? My new Political Communication piece w/ Oren Samet & Leo Arriola challenges assumptions, shows that FB users in #Myanmar are more tolerant. Social media can be a bad tool but more nuance is needed: doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #conflictsky
From the ESOC Call for Papers for 2024 Annual Meeting: This year's theme is “Hate and Conflict." The submission deadline for full working papers is June 14th, and the meeting will be on October 17-19 at UCLA. See link for more details: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #Polisky #ConflictSky
March 30, 2024 at 4:43 AM
From the ESOC Call for Papers for 2024 Annual Meeting: This year's theme is “Hate and Conflict." The submission deadline for full working papers is June 14th, and the meeting will be on October 17-19 at UCLA. See link for more details: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #Polisky #ConflictSky
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Great over view of trends in/ rise of conflict scholarship on Colombia in recent years
Did you ever wonder if more and more people are writing about Colombia or if this is just a wrong impression? New publication on the last 25 years of scholarship on Colombia’s civil conflict
@civilwarsjournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@civilwarsjournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 15, 2023 at 8:10 PM
Great over view of trends in/ rise of conflict scholarship on Colombia in recent years