A timely piece by FRANKY

🌍 Welcome to the United Nations X channel on security sector reform & governance. Follow us as we work to build sustainable, genuine security for all 🤝. #UNSSR #SecuritySectorReform #Peace #Security #Development #Humanrights

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: We are NOW RECRUITING for the Harvard David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowships for the 2024–2026 cohort... Deadline to apply is November 30, 2023... Apply now!

Come work @ RAND! We're hiring for a China-focused analyst (master's) and a researcher (PhD): China analyst: rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External… China researcher: rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External… Not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions!

In the last few weeks, Trump has claimed he defeated Obama in an election, that Jeb Bush got us involved in the Middle East, that WW2 hasn’t happened yet, and now that the Prime Minister of Hungary is the “leader of Turkey.” Cognitive decline is an understatement.

"Dad Life!" Is about to go double platinum 😭😆🤣 I'm dead (Sound Up)

Thanks to EUTM Somalia for the opportunity to engage!

Strong peacekeeping panel ISOA #isoa #stabilityops #isoaafrica2024!

WOMEN & WAR: a conference co-organised with University of Oxford . The first panel on 22 March with see Chloë J. A. Pieters, Dr Aimée Fox and Jonathan Fennell discuss the mobilisation of women during the world wars. Registration is FREE & open to all until 20 March: asc.ox.ac.uk/event/women-war

📢New blogpost: Words mean things: categorizing non-state international security actors Come read Whitney Grespin and Caroline Batka's latest piece on why the language around private actors in international security services matters 👇 medium.com/international-…

📚Unfortunately we are not at #ISA2024 but our book SECURITY STUDIES: AN APPLIED INTRODUCTION is!📚 If you head over to the Sage Politics stand you can have a look 👀 and order an inspection copy. 🚨

Publication Alert: Special Edition of our Policy Brief Series Edited by Cynthia Happi & Jesutimilehin O. Akamo. The Series is supported by the @NZinEthiopia. We appreciate our contributors Whitney Grespin, Darlington Tshuma, Christian Ani, Abraham Ename Minko, & Dmitry Erokhin

For #twitterstorians attending #SMH2025 SMH Historians please consider this event.

'Words mean things — and should be used intentionally and accurately', argue Whitney Grespin and Caroline Batka in their blogpost on the language used for international security actors. ✍️ Read for #free below: medium.com/international-…

If you are in position of POWER, this is for you.

From 3-7 June, the UN will be celebrating #SSRweek 2024. Join us in promoting #SecuritySectorReform, sharing success stories & highlighting SSR's impact. Follow us for daily updates and insightful discussions. Let's make #SSRweek 2024 a success together! bit.ly/3VacYNm

'Words mean things — and should be used intentionally and accurately', argue Whitney Grespin and Caroline Batka in their blogpost on the language used for international security actors. ✍️ Read for #free below: medium.com/international-…

Thanks back at you Ahmad Shuja, it was a pleasure to work on.

A thread on some of the most surreal trains and beautiful train rides 1. The Mauritanian iron ore train, one of the world's longest and heaviest, spans up to 3 km, travels 704 km, and has 200-300 carriages, each weighing up to 84 tons.

A thread of rare media of animals that are now extinct 1. Footage from 1933 of the last known surviving Thylacine, commonly called the Tasmanian Tiger. It died in 1936 in captivity in Tasmania.