On Tuesday we released our first weekly timeline of escalation on the Lebanese southern border. To read details on the almost 700 events so far and filter through the data, visit our interactive dashboard at: aub.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboard…

PODCAST🎙️ In a new episode of the War Studies Breaking Cycles of Conflict mini-series, XCEPT researchers Craig Larkin, Inna Rudolf, and Rajan Basra explore issues surrounding post-conflict reconstruction, reconciliation, and recovery in Iraq. Listen 👇 xcept-research.org/breaking-cycle…

In your view, what are the best research methods summer schools or training courses for early career and PhD researchers in #Peace studies or conflict studies?

Great to see the SCORE Initiative's grant programme on religion and peacebuilding moving forward. Thanks to the Templeton Religion Trust, King's College London, and all who joined the vibrant conversation on concepts, innovative research methods and impact. Centre for the Study of Divided Societies War Studies

What a delightful, humbling surprise to learn that our article on religious discrimination during regime change - co-authored with Hyun Jeong Ha & Nathanael GS - has been selected as the Nils Petter Gleditsch @jpr Article of the Year! prio.org/journals/jpr/a… Nottingham Politics

New chapter on Conflict Resolution in Deeply Divided Societies co-authored with Craig Larkin and Michael Kerr published in a book celebrating 60 years of War Studies at KCL. Testament to 12 years of thinking together and with our students Centre for the Study of Divided Societies e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/an-in…

Johan Galtung sadly passed away this morning. He was the main founder of PRIO in 1959. Read his obituary here: prio.org/news/3505

FULLY FUNDED MA and PhD degrees for students from #Lebanon at King' College London. Please spread the word! kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/f…

Good thread from @rogermacginty leading with the data

Looking forward to discussing this really interesting book with Peter Mandaville and Jocelyne Cesari 13th March as part of the ISA series on religion and IR. Registration details below!

Join Peter Mandaville, @drstaceyG, and Jocelyne Cesari for the next #BookTalkSeries on The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power to discuss the role #Religion plays in shaping the #InternationalPolicies of major #GlobalPowers across the world. Register: ow.ly/pW5w50QvY0B

Please do join Peter Mandaville Jocelyne Cesari and I today for this discussion on the geopolitics of religious soft power, part of the ISA series on Religion and International Relations Centre for the Study of Divided Societies War Studies King's Security Studies

Delighted to share new U.S. Institute of Peace resources on #religion and #nonviolence. Check out our interactive map, which displays the location for 183 nonviolent action campaigns (1945 and 2013). This includes the religious dimensions of 102 movements. usip.org/programs/relig…

Many thanks to Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC) and all participants for an excellent discussion George R. Wilkes Templeton Religion Trust

BREAKING: A record number of 59 conflicts were recorded last year, making it one of the most violence years since the end of the Cold War. Read more on the state of conflict in the world in our new report: prio.org/news/3532

The second #SSC2024 fishbowl discussion tackled the complexities of reconciliation in post-conflict recovery. Participants noted that reconciliation means different things to different cultures. Reconciliation isn’t one-size-fits-all; justice and empathy are key.

PRIO Director Vacancy Announcement We are looking for an engaged and unifying leader who will contribute to strengthening peace research nationally and internationally. As Director of PRIO, you will lead a trend-setting, international and interdisciplinary research environment.

My new open access chapter on lived religious ambivalence and the state in the #MiddleEast, with a #Lebanon case and a new #Bourdieu-inspired theoretical frame War Studies degruyter.com/document/doi/1…