Kerry Crawford
@profkfc.bsky.social
Teacher-scholar studying human security, gender-based violence in war, and best practices in the academy. I run on coffee and write relentlessly. Views are mine; I never speak for my employer.
Please check out the first three papers in the new MPI series, released this week as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325 and the founding of Women, Peace and Security. I am humbled to be included in this first tranche of papers.
The Missing Peace Initiative is proud to publish the first three papers in the series “The Missing Peace: Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence through Research, Policy and Practice”. You can read and download the papers here: www.prio.org/projects/1769
Missing Peace Initiative – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Led by Inger Skjelsbæk.
www.prio.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Please check out the first three papers in the new MPI series, released this week as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325 and the founding of Women, Peace and Security. I am humbled to be included in this first tranche of papers.
Co-author’s kiddo is dabbling in DJing and made this track. Give it a listen. I’m entirely biased but I think it’s pretty great. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfi3...
Crashing Down
YouTube video by CATMusic
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May 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Co-author’s kiddo is dabbling in DJing and made this track. Give it a listen. I’m entirely biased but I think it’s pretty great. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfi3...
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Logo is back up at the US Institute of Peace where it belongs — small but important court victory against DOGE’s illegal actions.
May 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.
April 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.
Today I had to explain to my students that they can no longer access the USIP website for their human security case study project because it is still blocking all traffic. Decades of research and progress, my brilliant colleagues’ work, my work, all in the name of peace and security is just…gone.
March 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Today I had to explain to my students that they can no longer access the USIP website for their human security case study project because it is still blocking all traffic. Decades of research and progress, my brilliant colleagues’ work, my work, all in the name of peace and security is just…gone.
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@dandrezner.bsky.social Thanks for posting the CU Poli Sci response to the Trump letter on your blog. Here's one from across the street at Teachers College. Would be great if you'd share!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty
A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty The Attack on American Education, from our Perspective as Teachers College Faculty March 19, 2025 We are a group of Teachers College facult...
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March 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
@dandrezner.bsky.social Thanks for posting the CU Poli Sci response to the Trump letter on your blog. Here's one from across the street at Teachers College. Would be great if you'd share!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
USIP’s home page as of 8:57pm eastern time.
March 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
USIP’s home page as of 8:57pm eastern time.
Just…wow.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is considering to give up the role of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe - a role that began with then-World War II hero and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Trump admin considers giving up NATO command that has been American since Eisenhower
The move is being discussed as part of a possible restructuring of combatant commands that would help the Defense Department cut costs.
nbcnews.to
March 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Just…wow.
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Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.
Drezner's World has never published anything not written by the hard-working staff. Until now. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond.
Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.
danieldrezner.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.
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This is how it’s done: @profsaunders.bsky.social and several colleagues at Columbia have suggested text for their university to respond to the Trump administration. Kudos to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond.
Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.
danieldrezner.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is how it’s done: @profsaunders.bsky.social and several colleagues at Columbia have suggested text for their university to respond to the Trump administration. Kudos to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
Despicable.
BREAKING—The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) office was just on lockdown for close to an hour while members of the DOGE team tried to enter the building, multiple people have told me. Security has now escorted out remaining staffers who’ve been told to telework until further notice.
March 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Despicable.
Proud to be an AAUP member. Fellow faculty, it’s a good time to join. ✊🏼
"This is going to be a long fight. We need everyone on board. This is why we’re developing a multi-pronged approach to organizing. This is the only way to stop the anti-worker policies being pushed by the Trump administration."
– AAUP Vice-President Rotua Lumbantobing
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– AAUP Vice-President Rotua Lumbantobing
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Amid Right-Wing Attacks on Education, the American Association of University Professors Organizes for Academic Freedom
When the right-wing Heritage Foundation released its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise—better known as Project 2025—in 2023, its authors laid out a comprehensive framework for undercutt...
msmagazine.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Proud to be an AAUP member. Fellow faculty, it’s a good time to join. ✊🏼
What are we teaching our students if we refuse to stand up for the importance of colleges and universities?
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
www.thecrimson.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
What are we teaching our students if we refuse to stand up for the importance of colleges and universities?
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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🧵 Friends, a thread speaking just for myself. I joined Columbia in Jan 2024. A lot I still don't know, but some is crystal clear. Most important is what's not in the news: Columbia students and faculty show great capacity for respectfully and thoughtfully engaging difficult topics every day. 1/
Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🧵 Friends, a thread speaking just for myself. I joined Columbia in Jan 2024. A lot I still don't know, but some is crystal clear. Most important is what's not in the news: Columbia students and faculty show great capacity for respectfully and thoughtfully engaging difficult topics every day. 1/
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EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
www.wired.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
Protesting and boycotting are not illegal actions, but leveraging public office for financial gain is.
"I will do that. I'm gonna stop them." -- Trump on declaring that Tesla protesters are domestic terrorists
March 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Protesting and boycotting are not illegal actions, but leveraging public office for financial gain is.
Now, more than ever, conversations about making higher ed (and every profession) accessible are so important. The vignette contributors are 💯. This project was the culmination of so many real talks. 📚 More good trouble is forthcoming in 2025.
If you're at @isanet.bsky.social , @profkfc.bsky.social and Leah's book, PhD parenthood trap, is waiting for you!
March 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Now, more than ever, conversations about making higher ed (and every profession) accessible are so important. The vignette contributors are 💯. This project was the culmination of so many real talks. 📚 More good trouble is forthcoming in 2025.
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None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
February 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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What say you House and Senate Republicans? Check your souls and see if they’re there still there. 🇺🇦🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What say you House and Senate Republicans? Check your souls and see if they’re there still there. 🇺🇦🇺🇦
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What can you do about the assault on USAID?
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
February 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What can you do about the assault on USAID?
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
For a change of pace this morning, I had my kids help me with the call to one of my Senators. We reported that they watched @kaine.senate.gov hold the floor last night and wanted to say thank you. I’m pretty sure their chorus of tiny voices made the staffer’s morning. 10/10 highly recommend.
February 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For a change of pace this morning, I had my kids help me with the call to one of my Senators. We reported that they watched @kaine.senate.gov hold the floor last night and wanted to say thank you. I’m pretty sure their chorus of tiny voices made the staffer’s morning. 10/10 highly recommend.
More of this! Thank you, Senate Dems. 🔥
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U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings
Floor Activity
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February 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
More of this! Thank you, Senate Dems. 🔥
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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Now would be a great time to allow CDC and FDA experts to, oh, I dunno, SPEAK FREELY.
Breaking News: Cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu, indicating that the virus may pose a more persistent risk to people than thought.
Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu
A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Now would be a great time to allow CDC and FDA experts to, oh, I dunno, SPEAK FREELY.