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The anniversary of the chemical massacre in Ghouta The killer is still at large and the victims are still waiting for justice.

🚨 New dataset alert 🚨 One PhD and two post-docs later, I have completed a global dataset of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs (1980-2020). Here are some data features and findings: 🧵 osf.io/6b385

Heartwarming photos from Idlib of the first Paralympic-style event in the region... How did HTS react? It reportedly banned the event's organizer over its perceived violation of local cultural and religious norms. Such as? The torch lit during the event symbolizes "Greek

Excited to share that my article with Sara Polo (Government @ Essex) on violent intergroup competition and terrorist restraint has been published #OnlineFirst (open access) in International Organization! 🔗 shorturl.at/B1NbL NYUAD Social Science NYU Abu Dhabi A short thread on our findings:

We test our argument at the macro- and micro-level with a new, behavioral measure of competition which accounts for violent attacks between militant groups that engage in terrorism. 🔎 At a glance, there is significant variation in violent competition across groups.

We also test our expectation at a micro-level using granular, geospatial data on ISIS in Syria (district-level, monthly from 2013-2018). We find the group 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 attacks on civilians by a large proportion in areas where they face violent competition.

A rare piece of good/happy news out of #Syria as four historic souks reopen in Aleppo: al-monitor.com/originals/2024…

Today is the #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared & in #Syria, ~130,000 people remain missing, forcibly disappeared by #Assad's regime. This practice continues today, with 'reconciled' men & returning refugees being swept up -- many never seen again, or killed.

Today on #InternationalDayofDisappeared, #Syria's survivors and families of the disappeared, joined by Syrian artist Khaled Dawwa, gathered outside the UN in Geneva to write their messages on Khaled's three-metre tall sculpture of a dictator before dismantling it.

On #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared & in #Syria, 157,000 people remain missing, forcibly disappeared by Assad’s regime. #Syria

At least 157,634 individuals, incl. 5,274 children and 10,221 women, of those arrested by the parties to the conflict in #Syria from March 2011 to August 2024 are detained and/or forcibly disappeared #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared #SNHR Full report: snhr.org/?p=72189

Can Jihadis’ Strategic Interests Trump Their Ideology? Foreign Support and Insurgent Survival in Syria - Jerome Drevon (Jerome Drevon), Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Foreign Secretary David Lammy gives an update on arms export licences to Israel, following the completion of the government’s review.

UK will immediately suspend 30 of its 350 arms export licences with Israel because there was a risk such equipment might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law reuters.com/world/uk/uk-sa…

LACMA The Art Institute of Chicago The Cleveland Museum of Art 4/ Double Folio from a Qur'an c. 1330-1350, Central Asian or Turkish Early Muslim settlers from central & western Asia carried Islamic book traditions to India, especially in the form of Qur'ans, such as the one from which these pages come Philadelphia Museum of Art #InternationalLiteracyDay

LACMA The Art Institute of Chicago The Cleveland Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art The Morgan The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ashmolean Museum V&A Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art Getty 13/ Leaf from Qur'an, Iranian Verses of chapter 1 (Surat al-fatihah) written in Naskh script in black ink with reading marks in red & interlinear gold decoration. Chapter headings & verses are written in Riqa" script in red ink The Walters Art Museum #InternationalLiteracyDay

Excited that "Coercive Legacies: From Rebel Governance to Authoritarian Control" is finally out with an *issue number* Journal of Politics @[email protected]! 🙂 Access the article here: doi.org/10.1086/729947 + thread on the paper/argument below.