15 May 2024 - FREE: Beyond Compliance Consortium Public Launch of 'Building Evidence on Promoting Restraint by Armed Actors'. Includes presentation of the research programme and fireside chat bit.ly/44uxIni

Out now on the blog, Santiago Sosa sansosa.bsky.social highlights the importance of micro-dynamics of armed conflict and peace in Colombia with implications for our understanding of conflict processes and trajectories.

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Newly published on the Civil War Paths blog, AmelieFreiberg @ameliefreiberg.bsky.social highlights the importance of political education on understanding rebel group restraint. Read more here 👇
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📢We're looking for a research fellow to join us in the Beyond Compliance Consortium!!! A great opportunity to work on the effective prevention and reduction of humanitarian need and civilian harm and facilitate a protective environment in conflict👇👇👇
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We are hiring: shorturl.at/bptuG

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- 3-year quant postdoc.
- 100% research and data collection.
- On violent conflict and humanitarian law.
- Grade 7 salary (more than most UK postdocs).
- Works with me in a large team across politics and law.

It was such a pleasure working with you, Madlen Nikolova. So very well done! And what a PhD journey on a challenging subject drawing on challenging fieldwork on top of the changes to the research brought about by the pandemic. Big congratulations on this achievement!

🚨New First View Article🚨

'Legitimate governance in international politics: Towards a relational theory of legitimation' by @WolfgangMinatti is now available #OpenAccess !

📄Read Here 👉cambridge.org/core/journals/…

In this week's blog, Prof Anastasia Sh shares this year's updates and reflects on our research activities, fieldwork challenges, and collaboration and community building. Read more 👇civilwarpaths.org/2024-03-15-yea…

Over the last weeks, we were excited to welcome Edoardo Corradi as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War who worked on extensions of his research on rebel alliances in Syria during his stay.

Check out his latest article 👇/1
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It is always a pleasure speaking at events led by & for early career researchers but especially when such exciting & relevant research on wide-ranging conflict dynamics is showcased. A terrific workshop - big thanks once again to the organising team UCL Conflict & Change for hosting me!

Rhetorical cooperation is often thought of as being trivial in research on militant cooperation. Here, I outline why discourse matters for armed group relations and how certain leaders drive this behavior. A huge thanks to the Civil War Paths team! civilwarpaths.org/2024/03/11/und…

My latest article, with Meredith Loken, is now available! Check out 'Women’s Wings in Rebel Organisations: Prevalence, Purposes and Variations'
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Excited to share my second solo-authored piece in Civil Wars! Here, I focus on why AQ-IS form different regional relations. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It’s been years in the making but “The Supply & Demand of Rebel Governance” is finally out (ungated) in ISR 🎉 Special thanks to Adrian Florea (@aflorea.bsky.social) for being the best co-author & to the long list of friends & colleagues who helped us get there doi.org/10.1093/isr/vi…

Next UCL Public Law Group Seminar is 28 Feb 2024, at 2-3:30, with Dr. Paolo Sandro, on his terrific monograph The Making of a Constitutional Democracy, with UCL Laws Professors Tom Hickman Colm O'Cinneide and George Letsas commenting. Register here: ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

What a vibrant discussion on immersive #fieldwork on violence & war, formation & transformation of collective #identities , diverse #mobilization roles people adopt in #uncertainty & complex histories of #conflict .

Big thanks Marnie Howlett & Michael Rochlitz Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre for organising!

Another outstanding seminar with Dr. Dr. Choman Hardi and Dr. Francesca Romeo! The seminar explored forms and locations of political violence as well as reimagining possibilities for resistance, highlighting the role of art and creative methods in building solidarity across contexts.

Tomorrow Prof Anastasia Sh will discuss #mobilization , #uncertainty & broader processes of #war in the context of #Abkhazia Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre #RESCMondaySeminar .

Thanks to Marnie Howlett & Michael Rochlitz for the invitation to this exciting seminar.

All welcome in person!

Further details 👇

On the blog this week, @jamesWHewitt_ explores how fighters’ familial loyalties interact with organisational loyalties before, during, and after mobilisation. Read the full piece here civilwarpaths.org/2024/02/16/fam…