Me writing the dissertation for the PhD program I begged God to let me into 🥲

Congrats on graduating with a PhD in Political Science to one of the best researchers I know :)

Big congrats to my best friend for being such an excellent researcher (atm based Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)! Đorđe's thought-provoking paper on how travel restrictions influence state support will be presented EPSA conference in #Cologne later this year!

Congratulations to our TRiSS Economics graduates! So lovely to see you all again! We've missed you, but great to know you are in good jobs and doing well.
TCD Economics TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy

Welcome back Djordje, TRiSS Political Science graduate! So nice to see you back here again - we've missed you.
TCD Political Science TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy

Read about what political education in rebel group can tell us about rebel violence and my new SOPERG Data Project, coming out of my dissertation.

📢Exciting Call for Contributions!
As we commemorate this year the 75th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, we invite scholars, practitioners, and experts to contribute blog posts addressing various dimensions of Common Article 3👇👇👇
armedgroups-internationallaw.org/2024/04/11/ope…

New piece at International Studies Quarterly, w Iris Malone: 'Foreign Sponsorship of Armed Groups and Civil War'
doi.org/10.1093/isq/sq…

Preliminary evidence suggesting armed groups' organizational attributes, rather than foreign support on its own, are critical to explaining civil war risk

In this article, Melanie Sauter examines the reasons why the humanitarian sector is a permissive environment for sexual violence and the needs for changes in the sector to combat this.

Read it here: jhumanitarianaction.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Check out our new article, with Eunice Apio and Robin Oryem, focused on practices of love and care in the LRA insurgency group in Uganda. Open Access!

academic.oup.com/isagsq/article…

Fellowships to Palestinian scholars and artists affected by war in Gaza. Please circulate widely
Deadline for application 21 May
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What an amazing conference, ISA! I had a blast at #isa2024 learning from and chatting with excellent scholars across different areas of the discipline.

Thanks to everyone for a wonderful ISA. I’m looking forward to Chicago next year.

Come join us for a fantastic panel on civilian targeting by states in armed conflict. Happening tomorrow at 08:15 in Union Square 13. ISA #ISA2024

Come join us for a fantastic panel on civilian-combatant relations in armed conflict. Happening today at 4 in Union Square 11. ISA #ISA2024

Looking forward to exciting panels on civilian-combatant relations and civilian targeting by states. Come join us on Thursday 4pm and Friday 8:15am.
Please reach out if you want to grab a coffee or chat about conflict dynamics at #isa2024 ISA

A PhD is neither a marathon nor a sprint. It's this:

In this week's blog, Prof Anastasia Sh shares this year's updates and reflects on our research activities, fieldwork challenges, and collaboration and community building. Read more 👇civilwarpaths.org/2024-03-15-yea…

soo... damn close 🙃

Overwhelmed by the amount of studies on populism and COVID? So was l! I summarised the current evidence through a scoping review using some QTA tools

Very happy to share that the first paper of my PhD is now published in Soc Sci & Medicine

doi.org/10.1016/j.socs…

I just heard a PhD student say 'I just need to get through one more week and then things will be less busy...'

I didn't have the heart to say anything