🎄⛪ Yesterday Christians celebrated the birth of an early #anarcho-#pacifist. My book on why I say this: sites.google.com/site/christo... #christmas

🏅 Today I received this award. Lots has happened in 15 years. Overall I'm rather proud to be working @irph.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social, delighted to have so many great colleagues, & looking fwd to the hopefully many years to come. Thanks to all who shared part of the journey so far.

🎙️A Paris pour participer à un sémaire (demain) sur "La mobilisation non militaire: un pilier invisibilisé de la #résiliencesociétale" organisé par Organization for Nonviolent Movements, @novact.bsky.social, @ipp-france.bsky.social & International Center for Nonviolent Conflict

This week, students from the Part B module Politics of Development (convened by @giuliapiccolino.bsky.social) displayed their work at the module's poster session. Keep your eyes open for some of these posters appearing around the department in the near future!

🇫🇷 Il n'y a pas que la défense militaire pour se protéger. Il est temps d'investir dans la défense civile non-armée: www.pressenza.com/fr/2025/08/l... #ServiceMilitaire #nonviolence #france

🎙️Looking forward to participating at tomorrow's webinar on the Radical #Left & the War in #Ukraine organised by @dewalius1961.bsky.social @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

What have you been up to since graduation? If you graduated from IRPH at Loughborough between May and July 2024, we need you! You’ll have received an email about the Graduate Outcomes Survey. Check your inbox and take part by 30th November: make your voice count!

Aujourd'hui = 3eme🎂de la parution de mon livre sur l'#anarchismechrétien qui offre une exégèse #anarchiste du #nouveautestament: atelierdecreationlibertaire.com/L-anarchisme...

🎙️A Paris pour une journée d'échanges sur " #Paix, guerres et souveraineté" au Sénat, demain, organisée par @guybenarroche.bsky.social de @lesecologistes-pdl.bsky.social @ecologistesenat.bsky.social, où j'évoquerais des sujets abordés dans pressenza.com/fr/2025/09/u....

📢Interested in applying for #Leverhulme Early Career #Fellowships 2025 (3yrs full time) with @irph.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social? Note our internal demand-management deadline of 4pm on 1 Dec (!), & pls contact potential supervisors asap: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

🎂Today is #DorothyDay's birthday. Here's a free article exploring the extent to which she was influenced by #LeoTolstoy: repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/jou... #anarchism #pacifism #anticlericalism

❗ Reminder: deadline for this is a week from now 📅

In 2 weeks exactly the UK will fall silent to commemorate #war in a way that is increasingly #militaristic & hegemonic. Here's my #pacifist critique: doi.org/10.1080/2333...

📰Azniv Tadevosyan examines rise of #grotesque aesthetics in nonconformist #Russian popular #music of the late 2010s as a channel for aesthetic #dissensus drawing on #Rancière’s theorisation of politics: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Adam North reflects on the place of #threats as a nonviolent means of redistributing power (via Sorel, syndicalism & Fanon): brill.com/view/journal...

👩‍🎓Fee waiver for doctoral study with us in International Relations, Politics and History (or other departments in School of Social Sciences and Humanities) 👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC380/s...

📰Caroline Kennedy-Pipe argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

📢Call for Papers for free #Pacifism & #Nonviolence workshop (to be held in April 2026). Deadline 5 Nov. Full info in PDF in CfP tab here: brill.com/view/journal.... Please circulate widely.

Not your typical research seminar... Earlier this week, Orit Shimoni (@oritshimoni.bsky.social) and Dan Bern discussed the potential for music and art to foster cross-cultural solidarity with the Pacifism and Nonviolence Research Group, complete with live performances.

📅Today, international day of #nonviolence, why not check out our pages: brill.com/view/journal...? You'll find work on economics, Islam, historiography, unarmed civilian protection, Gandhi, King, BLM, sabotage, AWS, gender, structural & police violence, etc. Follow us for more!

Today = 7th🎂of 2nd vol of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social incl chaps on #YiddishRadicalism, #ByzantineTheology, #Spanishanarchistfilms, #FirstPeter, #Nietzsche & #Benjamin, #ChristianNonviolence, #Blake & #Occult www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/books/e/10.1...

📢JPN 3:2 now out. SI on #Economics of Politics & Nonviolence guest edited by Christopher Coyne. Includes articles on practical #pacifism, #nonviolent action, polycentric #peace, female property rights, & 1849 Paris Peace Congress. brill.com/view/journal...

📰 @jasonleebyas.bsky.social brings economic insights to @chenoweth.bsky.social & @mariajstephan.bsky.social to argue violent resistance common despite nonV more effective due to costliness of participation in violence, which makes its preparation a signal 4 mvmt’s seriousness doi.org/10.1163/2772...

🗣️ Looking fwd to presenting on #pacifist rejoinders to #Hitler question #CRS2025 conference

🎙A few days ago I was interviewed Mary Youssef about hashtag#Christian hashtag#anarchism (interview proper starts from 3:35 after some technical difficulties :)) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I00K...

It's another successful year for IRPH in the Guardian University Guide. Loughborough lands sixth for International Relations, ninth for Politics, and eleventh for History.

📰Ravi d'annoncer la parution d' "Une critique de l’orthodoxie guerrière : Réflexions #pacifistes sur la guerre en #Ukraine" (version traduite et un peu abrégée de doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... ): www.pressenza.com/fr/2025/09/u...

📰Andrew Fitz-Gibbon examines ethical foundations of #violence & #nonviolence through lens of Pragmatic Ethical Principlism & grounded in cross-cultural ethical traditions, arguing nonviolence is ethically superior by systematically applying 7 core ethical principles

We are extremely proud to share that Dr Joe Davidson, Vice-Chancellor's Independent Research Fellow here in IRPH, has won the @biapt.bsky.social Early Career Prize for his groundbreaking research and his contributions to the discipline of political theory. Great job, Joe; well deserved!

Today is #Tolstoy's birthday. His #politicalthought is radical, #anarcho-#pacifist & #iconoclastic. Here's my book on it: sites.google.com/site/christo....

Interview de 16mins sur mon intervention à l' #UEMSS, à partir de 1h23min42secs sur l'émission Achaïra du 1er septembre): www.lacledesondes.fr/nos-emissions

📰Un court commentaire sur la turbo- #militarisation de l'Europe et sur la Défense Civile Non-Violente ( #DCNV): pressenza.com/fr/2025/08/l.... Publication par @pressenza.bsky.social de mon propos a #UEMSS2025

🗣️ Looking fwd to presenting #AnarchoPacifist Critique of the European Project at #EISAPEC25 in 12mins

Today = 1st 🎂 of co-authored JPN forum on #Malm's How To Blow Up a Pipeline, complicating his call for #sabotage in light of scholarship on #pacifism & #nonviolence doi.org/10.1163/2772...

🗣️ Looking fwd to taking part in #EISAPEC25 roundtable on Reimagining #Pacifism/#nonviolence in an Age of Resurgent Neoimperialism in 15mins with Mikael Baaz, Joana Ricarte, Kristoffer Liden, Benoît Pelopidas, Victoria Basham & Noga Glucksam

🗣️ Ravi d'avoir réflechi avec autres intervenant.e.s et militant.e.s #UEMSS2025 sur la question des résistances face à la #militarisation de nos sociétés et aux économies de #guerre hier après-midi: www.uemss.org/spip.php?pag...

Today = 4th🎂of Greek translation of "A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence" as "Μια #Χριστιανική #Αναρχική Κριτική της #Βίας. Από το Γύρισμα και της Άλλης Παρειάς στην Απόρριψη του Κράτους": geniusloci2017.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/a...

📰Christopher Coyne & Abigail R. Hall Blanco develop an #economic case for practice pacifism, thus connecting applying economic scholarship on political institutions & government failure to pacifism

Today is 5th-year🎂 of 3rd volume of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social: stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e... including essays on #AbrahamHeyn, #HerbertRead, #LeoTolstoy, #DanielGuérin, #MartinBuber, #mysticism & #spiritualanarchism

Today is 1st 🎂 of article published with BJPIR mapping both tensions & overlaps betw #anarchism & #pacifism, including on effectiveness of #nonviolence, questionable compromises, censorship within movements, flirting with #violence, & radicalism: doi.org/10.1177/1369....

📰 Olena Nikolayenko examines interplay between #gender norms & nonviolent/civil resistance in Ukraine's #Euromaidan: how they are contested but also how they constrain patterns of resistance doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰 @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social calls for more focus on pacifist or war #abolitionist campaigns in the debate about autonomous weapons systems (#AWS) & how they are an affront to 'human dignity' doi.org/10.1163/2772...

Today's the 9th 🎂 of my article on #LeoTolstoy's #anticlericalism, looking at both what he said then and how some of it still applies today. Freely available here: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/7/...

We are recruiting! A brilliant opportunity for outstanding researchers to join us @lborouniversity.bsky.social as Professor or Reader: www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad...

#WW2 ended 80 years ago today, but 'warist' orthodoxy is back. Here's my International Affairs piece articulating #pacifist reflections calling for investment in nonviolence (including for defence) rather than redoubled #militarism doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... #armistice #peace #Europe #VEday

Sad news about our recently retired colleague: www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/pol...

Looking forward this in a few hours 👉 livestream of #Disasters: Deconstructed about #anarchism with @kschmutina.bsky.social, @vonmeding.bsky.socia & Ruth Kinna, available via livestream on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/disastersd...

Many Gods, No Masters: a new zine on #anarchism & #sirituality: linktr.ee/anarchistspi...