🤔 In #Nigeria, conflicts between informal armed groups like #bandits & militias have been rising in the shadow of the Boko Haram insurgency. This led to the central question of my PhD: how do civil wars & local conflicts influence each other? 👇 tinyurl.com/mr3akah9 1/5
🔁 *Within* the civil war conflict zone, local conflicts are almost absent due to the massive disruption of everyday life and rebel governance. Importantly, these developments feed back into the civil war by overall strengthening the insurgents. 4/5
💡 My work contributes to the integration of macro- and micro-level research in conflict studies by explaining how the network structure conditions the behaviour of armed groups & vice versa. Curious to learn more? Check out the full manuscript: 📖 tinyurl.com/mr3akah9 5/5
How do conflict parties react to #ceasefire *violations*? Conflict parties face an intricate decision-making problem because they have to safeguard their interests in the conflict & in a continuation of the ceasefire at the same time. See my full article tinyurl.com/2mwh9d96
Your chance to become my successor as a PhD candidate at @CSS_ETHZurich. Very good conditions money-, people-, and city-wise ✨️ Feel free to reach out
🔔 We have an opening for a fully-funded PhD position in Security Politics!
🔊 Please share this information with anyone in our network who may be interested.
💡 For more information and to apply: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_e…
ALT PhD Position in Security Politics, 100%, Zurich, fixed-term
... and suddenly it's over. Over the moon to share that my PhD thesis was accepted without revisions 🤩 Many thanks to my committee - Andi Wenger, @liviaisabella13 and @_janakrause - for their time and thought-provoking questions. And to everyone else who made this possible 🤗
Important thread on the misogyny to expect during the upcoming electoral campaigns. If you think misogyny is not a thing anymore or want to understand it better, I highly recommend reading Down Girl by @kate_manne
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I made it: PhD thesis submitted a few weeks ago ✅️ Recovered at the beach ✅️ Now preparing for the defense at the beginning of August 🤞🏻
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Are you a conflict/peace/security studies scholar with network analysis skills? Join our top-tier Political Science Department as an Associate Lecturer and work in the vibrant heart of London. New deadline: August 1st ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
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Call for contributions to the special issue on the finances of insurgency and rebel governance - please send proposals to @_AlexWaterman, @PolViolence @ilyssa_y & @irwintanya.
Deadline: 1st August
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Are you a peace and conflict scholar? The call for papers for the Swiss Political Science Association (@SVPW_ASSP) congress in beautiful Geneva on 9-10/1/25 is now open. Submit your paper until 30.6.24 here: svpw-assp.ch/spsa-annual-con…. With @DanaMLandau and @EnzoNussio.
In 2023, almost all communal conflicts (95%) occurred in civil war contexts. @sebvanbaalen and I explain why this matters in our new blog ⬇️ @UCDP @CSS_ETHZurich
Violent conflicts over land & resources happen almost exclusively in civil war-affected areas. @CWiehler & @sebvanbaalen argue peacebuilders must involve civil war parties in conflict resolution — and even see them as potential conflict management partners
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Day 1,789 (or so) of my PhD. Me: "What is 'state' even supposed to mean?" How is your Friday going? 😅☕️📚
When are conflict parties ready to cease fire? Very happy to have shared my expertise with the Swiss SRF for this episode on a potential #ceasefire in #Gaza
srf.ch/audio/news-plus/israe… (in German)
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📌Job alert 📌
4-year PhD position, party of my SNF project UN-POPULAR: Citizens’ Opposition to Peace Missions @HSGStGallen.
- Peacebuilding and social media
- Causal inference and computational social science
- Starting 1 Sep (or later)
Apply here: tinyurl.com/5udpmr89