It's 🌟#StaffSpotlight🌟 time! Meet Dr. Taylor Vincent (@tvincent.bsky.social), another amazing postdoctoral Research Associate! Having worked for the GSS Lab previously, we are thrilled her Klarman Fellowship has brought her to #Ithaca. Read more ⤵️

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The Missing Peace Initiative is proud to publish the first three papers in the series “The Missing Peace: Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence through Research, Policy and Practice”. You can read and download the papers here: www.prio.org/projects/1769

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The Fall 2025 #VIPWorkshop series starts tomorrow (10/1 @ 11am EST)! Join us virtually to discuss a paper by Juan Carlos Campos on police reform as an instrument of criminal protection (w/discussant @juangelvezf.bsky.social). Meeting link here: asu.zoom.us/j/88283976606 (1/3)

There’s still time to apply to the @vipworkshop.bsky.social’s fall series! Send your abstracts here: forms.gle/gN7yUQKBudiK...

VIP friends and colleagues! We are pleased to announce our call for submissions for fall 2025. Submit abstracts here by August 29th: forms.gle/gN7yUQKBudiK... Workshops in fall 2025 are on the following Wednesdays: 10/1/25; 11/5/25; 12/3/25. We will meet at 8am PST/11am EST/4pm GMT. (1/3)

I am excited to share that I have graduated with my PhD in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, and I will be starting as a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University this fall. A big thank you to everyone who has supported me on my journey!

Register to attend via the Zoom link here: georgetown.zoom.us/j/94920663115 And see our website to download the papers: vip-workshop.github.io (3/3)

The second paper is a coauthored project by Jamie Shenk and Shauna Gillooly @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social on corporate-state security contracts with discussant Clara Voyvodic (@cvoyvodic.bsky.social). (2/3)

The final meeting of the spring 2025 #VIPWorkshop series happens next week (4/24 @ 11am EST)! Daniel Rio Tinto (@driotinto.bsky.social) and coauthors will present a paper on criminal actors and welfare projects, with Lucia Tiscornia (@tiscornia21.bsky.social) as discussant. (1/3)

Today is the last day apply for the pre-conference workshop, join the us in Florida!

@vipworkshop.bsky.social has extended the deadline to apply for our Peace Science pre-conference workshop in November! Apply here by 4/16: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The second meeting of the spring 2025 #VIPWorkshop series happens next week (3/27 @ 11am EST)! Leonor Oliveira Toscano (@leoatoscano.bsky.social) will present a paper on peace infrastructure in Kenya (w/discussant Blair Welsh @blairwelsh.bsky.social). (1/3)

VIP is assembling a pre-workshop proposal for the 2025 Peace Science conference at UCF on November 13th. If you — VIP presenters, discussants, or attendees — would be interested in presenting at the workshop, please sign up at the link. Deadline is Tuesday, March 25th. forms.gle/dU3Cdn1gLQKA...

CONGRATS to Taylor Vincent for becoming a Klarman Fellow! "This will be an invaluable experience for me to advance my research and connect with a network of talented scholars as I work on my book project." - @tvincent.bsky.social Read about Taylor + other Fellows ⬇️ as.cornell.edu/news/new-kla...

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The spring 2025 #VIPWorkshop series starts next week (2/20 @ 11am EST)! Join us virtually to discuss papers by Tosin Salau on civilian cooperation with militant groups, & Betul Ozturan (@betulozturan.bsky.social) on political violence in Turkey. Register at: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 1/n

Deadline extended until January 10th!! Please send in your proposals!

The #VIP workshop welcomes submissions for our Spring '25 series! We are open to all submissions, but we are especially looking forward to papers related to gender, environment/climate change, and Asia (broadly defined) due Jan.3 To apply: 👇

The #VIP workshop welcomes submissions for our Spring '25 series! We are open to all submissions, but we are especially looking forward to papers related to gender, environment/climate change, and Asia (broadly defined) due Jan.3 To apply: 👇

Our final #VIPWorkshop of the semester is this Thursday at 11 am EST!! We have two amazing papers: Natalia Pia Guerrero Trinidad's “Non-State Social Structures and Social Capital: Evidence on Crime and Conflict” & Sally Sharif’s “What Causes a Reduction in Post-Conflict Violence?”

Our final #VIPWorkshop of the semester is this Thursday at 11 am EST!! We have two amazing papers: Natalia Pia Guerrero Trinidad's “Non-State Social Structures and Social Capital: Evidence on Crime and Conflict” & Sally Sharif’s “What Causes a Reduction in Post-Conflict Violence?”

Hello! I thought a list of women scholars in conflict and security studies could be helpful! Let me know if you want to be added/removed! go.bsky.app/Np3NivX

Today is the last day to send in abstracts for the VIP workshop’a fall series!

Deadline extended until Friday 🚨

Today is the last day to send in proposals for the Violence, Instability and Peace Workshop’s fall series! We are open to open to abstracts from various fields and methodologies! To apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tomorrow is the deadline to participate in the Spring VIP workshop!! See here for more information: vip-workshop.github.io

My paper with Connor Kopchick and Chase Englund (both on the job market!!), "The Effect of Crude Oil Price Changes on Civil Conflict Intensity in Rentier States", is finally out! Check it out here: www.epsjournal.org.uk/index.php/EP...