New podcast! 🎧 I spoke to @[email protected] about my PhD research on #peacebuilding in #SouthAfrica; using indigenous knowledge for peace; the challenges community-based organisations face; how everyday acts of care aren't taken seriously as peacebuilding & #participatoryresearch.

🚨New First View Article 🚨 "Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins" by Michael Livesey & Prof Anastasia Sh is available online. And it's #OpenAccess! ➡️ buff.ly/3OrTeSV

#OpenAccess from RIS - Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins - cup.org/3HIPKHE - Prof Anastasia Sh & Michael Livesey #FirstView

Last day to send your abstract through if you are interested in terrorism studies, critical terrorism studies and security. Ugo Gaudino and I look forward to reading your abstracts! 📍 Istanbul, Kadir Has University #EWIS2024

New blog on Belfast's so-called 'peace walls', courtesy of SPERI 🤗 bit.ly/3w25pzf The blog shares findings from my research, regarding the walls' effects for spatial mobility in Belfast. Thanks to Vicki Reif-Breitwieser and Dr Remi Edwards for the excellent editorial work! 👏

“Terrorism” is a harmful, colonial, racialised category which cannot be redeemed. So what’s the solution? Nothing short of abolition, as I argue in this article with Critical Studies on Terrorism! Read it here👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #openaccess

Some exciting professional news... I'll be working on SPERI's impact and engagement agenda, as well as advancing my own research on labour agency and control in agricultural supply chain governance Get in touch if you're interested in hearing more about either!

My new article for Critical Studies on Terrorism just went online (open access), exploring how knowledge about counterterrorism’s imbrication with structural racism is routinely refused and dismissed in UK policy making tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🇬🇧🚨 From the archives: 'Introducing the ‘conceptual archive’: A genealogy of counterterrorism in 1970s Britain' by Michael Livesey. 👉 Open access and available here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Privileged to be part of this important conversation on 🇵🇸. Big thank you to Dr Amna Kaleem Dr Rabea M. Khan and Alice Ella Finden 🏳️‍🌈 for leading us. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾BRISMES and Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG for supporting the work: tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

🎉 Vol 50(4) is out!🎉 This issue includes NINE research articles with contributions from: Daniel R. McCarthy Michael Livesey Prof Anastasia Sh @WolfgangMinatti Peter Verovšek Heidi Wang-Kaeding & More! 📚Read Here ➡️ buff.ly/4dg0QlG

#DidYouKnow that many RIS articles are #OpenAccess? Check out this article by Michael Livesey & Prof Anastasia Sh: "Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins" ➡️ buff.ly/3OrTeSV