So happy to be in such great company in this special issue! My article considers the epistemic violence(s) of conflict knowledge production and asks whether and how nonviolent practices such as unarmed civilian protection can help: brill.com/view/journals/…

If you would like to read but have trouble accessing the article, just send me a DM 😊

100% accurate and essential reading for non-Brits who work with Brits:

Over the past 14 yrs, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher educ has collided with the harsh reality of austerity & the cultural resentment of the radical right – driving some institutions close to bankruptcy. Great article by William Davies theguardian.com/politics/ng-in…

Glad to see the government addressing the systemic issue at the heart of this brutal triple femicide: crossbow ownership

Excited to be in Lille for #EISAPEC24 next week! There is something from the Protection in IR and Beyond section on each day. See below for details - come along and think / discuss #protection with us!

Then at 14.00, Emily Clifford Dr Louise Ridden @h_k_richards Dr Margot Tudor and I are roundtabling to “seek protection in the midst of IR” - come, share thoughts and try to make sense of it all with us! #EISAPEC24 EISA

Another day of #EISAPEC24, at 11.00 we are “troubling the meanings and politics of protection” with Emily Clifford Victoria M Basham Katharina Krause Anastasia Prokhorova Dr Louise Ridden @h_k_richards! EISA

Such a wonderful occasion for a reunion of this ‘protection’ group at #EISAPEC24. In-between delish 🥐, Luise Bendfeldt Dr Louise Ridden Victoria M Basham Emily Clifford @h_k_richards Katharina Krause and I tried to think protection outside of statist/militarist/neoliberal frameworks.

Thanks to all those that engaged with our section on “protection in IR and beyond” at #EISAPEC24 last week! It was a joy to share thoughts, discuss and get feedback - and meet many friends again! EISA

Last Friday was a dream! First a very stimulating and great discussion with @WhereisDean, followed by a fantastic party 🦒🪩🐆 🪩🦓- thanks to all those who took part and made it possible! Still getting used to being called Dr Bendfeldt though

feminist praxis is all the girls giving feedback to a postdoc application and seeing all the initials in the doc name ☺️

The first publications from our thinking around ‘protection’ in IR are here!! 🤩🥳 In this introduction Dr Louise Ridden Emily Clifford Hannah Richards and i examine what might be gained from interrogating and problematising protection Critical Studies on Security doi.org/10.1080/216248…

Katharina Krause Katharina Wezel Critical Studies on Security Victoria M Basham Hannah Owens @pollypw.bsky.social Dr Louise Ridden and Anastasia Prokhorova engage with the idea of self-protection troubling its universality. They ask who or what is the “self” in self-protection? Critical Studies on Security doi.org/10.1080/216248…

Amidst the conversations on protection and temporality, vulnerability, violence, care, whiteness and power, Dr Louise Ridden and I reflected on the idea of ‘self-protection’ uprooting it from the framework of sovereign state/individual and thinking #protection relationally

Read full text here: shorturl.at/oQNAW

CEEShub is live and ready to bring critical perspectives on security that hold the world in one embrace while centring peripheral perspectives and intricate relations of insecurities & vulnerabilities❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

All set for the second annual Tampere Peace Day: (Re)Searching Peace TAPRI Peace Research