And the winner of the 2024 Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize for the Best Article in the JPIPE from the Previous Year (2023, Volume 4) is Tinghua Yu & Elliott Ash, "Political Polarization and Judicial Selection." nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

Congratulations to Peer Schouten on winning the 2024 The Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Prize for his book titled Roadblock Politics: the origins of violence in Central Africa. cambridge.org/core/books/roa…

New research: The “Dark Side” of Community Ties: Collective Action and Lynching in Mexico #openaccess in The American Sociological Review American Sociological Review In it, I argue that community ties facilitate lynching, thus displaying a "dark side". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… THREAD

Call for contributions to the special issue on the finances of insurgency and rebel governance - please send proposals to Alex Waterman, James Worrall ilyssa & Tanya Bandula-Irwin. Deadline: 1st August

In January, I will move from ETH Zurich to University of Zurich. Grateful to Swiss National Science Foundation for funding my project with a consolidator grant, to IPZ - Political Science UZH Silja Häusermann for supporting my application; and to my colleagues CSS at ETH Zurich for having my back during 9 years! snf.ch/en/imm7TGC5Q3W…

📣Lennart Maschmeyer's new book, "Subversion: From Covert Operations to Cyber Conflict", is available now! 📖To secure your copy, please follow the link below: global.oup.com/academic/produ… #Cybersecurity #cyberattacks #cyberwar

New PhD position CSS at ETH Zurich: a great group, supportive environment, and a lot of freedom to pursue your own project within the broader field of security policy. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

🔔 We have an opening for a fully-funded PhD position in Security Politics! 🔊 Please share this information with anyone in our network who may be interested. 💡 For more information and to apply: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

Call for nominations for the CRS Book of the Yr Prize 2025 Have you or someone else published a book within peace & conflict studies? Send us your nomination (no supporting docs needed, just author/title/publisher). Nominations deadline: 31 Jan 2025 conflictresearchsociety.org/the-conflict-r…

🕊📢Exciting career opportunity to join our CSS Mediation Support Team! Please share this information with anyone in your network who may be interested. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_… #peacemediation #peacebuilding #ConflictResolution

📣New BJPIR article out now! 'War and peace in the age of AI' by Valerie Sticher 🔓Find the article in #OpenAccess here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Job alert: I am looking for 2 collaborators for my new consolidator project "Decades of Peace" at the University of Zurich IPZ - Political Science UZH funded by Swiss National Science Foundation. Please help me find them. PhD position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:e32a7b… Postdoc position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e1a4…

🎓 Call for Papers The CRS Annual Conference 2025 is open for submissions! 🌍 Share your research with global scholars in peace, conflict, and security studies. More info: conflictresearchsociety.org/call-for-paper… Dr Jennifer Hodge Kristin M. Bakke Finn Klebe Nadine also on @nadineansorg.bsky.social

My forthcoming book on 2014 war in Donbas with Oxford University Press is the first comparative study of the conflict written from the perspective of individual towns, their administrators and residents. By comparing mechanisms of town capture and governance it identifies the exact role of

Join the CRS 2025 Conference from Sept 17-19! Discuss the theme "Legitimacy in Conflict & Peace" and its role in contemporary wars. Submit papers by Jan 17. Dive into how legitimacy shapes conflict and peace. #ConflictResolution #Peacebuilding More at buff.ly/4ge10uT

🚨 Calling early-career researchers! 🚨 The CRS Emerging Scholars Initiative is here to support your peace and conflict studies journey. Gain career guidance, peer support, and expert mentoring. 🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan 2025 🌐 Learn more and apply at: conflictresearchsociety.org/emerging-schol…

🚨 Calling early-career researchers! 🚨 The CRS Emerging Scholars Initiative is here to support your peace and conflict studies journey. Gain career guidance, peer support, and expert mentoring. 🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan 2025 🌐 Learn more and apply at: conflictresearchsociety.org/emerging-schol…

🚀 Emerging Scholars Initiative 2025 🚀 Early-career researchers in peace and conflict studies, this one's for you! The CRS is launching a new program to support your career development. Apply by January 26th! Learn more and apply: buff.ly/3Wiltr3

As IR Standing Group of Società Italiana di Scienza Politica we are organising a whole day PhD workshop in Milan (thanks to EPRA Hub ) on 11 June where work in progress can be presented and discussed with IR faculty from Italy and abroad. Here the call and application: standinggroups.sisp.it/internationalr…

"I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It." nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…