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Arvioitani Israelin iskuista Syyriaan Kaisa Rautaheimon jutussa. www.hs.fi/maailma/art-...

It was a pleasure to talk about 🇸🇾 Syria, my research on civil governance and Daraya with Jasmin Paananen and Anu Leinonen for Lähi-itä NYT podcast. Find out more discussion in Finnish below 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/1ipd...

My review of Good Rebel Governance by Dipali Mukhopadhyay and Kimberly Howe is out at #ISR! It’s a great book with really interesting data from surveys USAID had conducted with Syrians in Syria during the war. academic.oup.com/isr/article-...

Beyond thrilled to receive funding for two years of post doc and to continue my research on civil governance during conflicts 🤩 It’s not too many of us researching civil wars or Syria in Finland so very grateful to be able to continue the work 🙏 #kulttuurirahastontuella

Tosi hyvää Syyria-keskustelua A-studiossa, varsinkin Nada Kettusen ja @hyyppati.bsky.social osuus.

I first heard about Yemenis being recruited under false pretences in August. Reporting from the FT shows this is systematic human trafficking. Yemeni recruit says they were forcibly taken from the airport, shots fired when they refused to sign enlistment contracts…all facilitated by the Houthis.

From 2025 BJPolS will be a fully #OpenAccess title which means new articles are published as Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence. You can find your open access options here - cup.org/4hWjxxI And in 2025 BJPolS will publish continuously (no issues).

Hyvä artikkeli - melkeinpä oikaisu aiempaan uutisointiin - Amsterdamin mellakoista. Ongelma on että se julkaistaan viikkoja tapahtumien jälkeen ja iso osa on jo luonut kuvan Amsterdamin tapahtumista. Arabi-vastaisia huutoja oli omassa somessani jo www.hs.fi/kirjeenvaiht...

Israel is conducting an ever-escalating shadow war against UNRWA, and their newest laws spell a disaster in the context of a catastrophe.

Check the new issue of the APSR. All papers are open access until the end of the month: bsky.app/profile/apsr...

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The NSMES next Middle East Conference takes place in Oslo in September 2025. Hope to see many of you there!

As people are leaving X and joining Bluesky instead, here is a starter pack of peace and conflict researchers for all new users ⤵️ go.bsky.app/7o8tZt2

It was a pleasure to talk to high school students about Syria and the US foreign policy in the region - great questions by students!

As many new followers have joined this, I have a free book on the syrian insurgency, explaining why jihadis took over and transformed academic.oup.com/book/57951?s... for those who dont have the time, i also did an AI generated podcast that is surprisingly good m.youtube.com/watch?v=dS5Z...

We have a new 2-year postdoc position at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Peace and Conflict and Latin America focussed. Please share widely among your networks. www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

University of Helsinki’s response to student’s demands: ▶️ Exchange programs to Israel suspended and commenced after ethical reviews ▶️ Academic collaboration not suspended ▶️ No investments at the moment in Israeli companies ▶️ Committed to contributing to rebuilding higher education postwar

Polisky Dictatorsky! We are accepting submissions for our Fall 2024 season of online workshops until May 31! We welcome presentations by early-career scholars studying authoritarian political regimes regardless of their methodological approaches. Find more information at: apsg.work/cfp/

This is such an important collection on the war on #Gaza, academic freedom and the war’s wider repercussions. “Put bluntly, Gaza no longer exists.” Thank you @abuaardvark.bsky.social 🙏 #Cease_fire_In_Gaza_Now

My book "Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique" (doi.org/10.1017/9781...) is now available #OpenAccess Go and check it out! polisky Afripolsky conflictsky AfroLuso

Uusin Maailmanpolitiikan arkipäivää -jakso käsittelee sotarikoksista tuomitsemista. Kommentoimassa Mazen Darwishin ohella Syyrian ja Gazan tilannetta. areena.yle.fi/1-68245737?u...

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Lähi-itä kadoksissa? Mitä uutisotsikoiden takana tapahtuu? Tätä Fimen kurssia suosittelen kaikille, jotka haluavat ymmärtää tapahtumia paremmin. Vapaasti suoritettavissa netissä. www.lahi-itakurssit.fi?fbclid=IwAR0...

Sharing this thread as I got a lot of good recommendations on the militarization of the Syrian uprising, possibly of use to civil war and reb gov people more broadly. menasky conflictsky

Reading Yassin Al-Haj Saleh from 2013. The similarities between Israel and Syria are nothing new.

Another tragic similarity to the war in Syria where the UN would share coordinates with the regime - only to have humanitarian targets bombed afterwards.

Esitelmäkutsu Politiikan tutkimuksen päiville on auki. Järjestämme Katariina Mustasillan kanssa työryhmän aiheella Konfliktit, poliittinen väkivalta ja siviilit. Tule mukaan keskustelemaan siviilien rooleista ja toimintamahdollisuuksista konflikteissa!

Wir sind auf der Suche nach Kommunalpolitiker*innen aller Parteien, die mit uns über ihre Erfahrungen mit Gewalt und Aggressionen im Rahmen ihrer politischen Tätigkeit sprechen möchten. Teilen erwünscht!

This joint project by The Yemen Listening Project and Aljazeera looks like a really good resource for teaching etc. It centers Yemeni voices, too often unheard amidst other coverage. menasky conflictsky interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/yem...

Tämä viikon tärkein teksti kritisoi aiheellisesti Jarkko Tontin esseetä (mielipidekirjoitusta) Hesarin pääkirjoitussivuilla. Surullista että HS ei ollut valmis julkaisemaan vastinetta vaan sallii täysin käsittämättömän kirjoituksen edustaa lehden linjaa.

Today’s class on gender was about #WomenLifeFreedom m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKo6...

The University of Michigan is hosting Peace Science this year (Nov 7-9) and applications are open for workshops and presentations! peacescience.unt.edu/forms/call-p...

"Apartheid 101" - Panel this Thursday 21st March in St Andrews, as part of anti-Apartheid week. All students and staff welcome.

This Makdisi Street podcast episode in solidarity with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was such a powerful listening on how Palestinian voices are silenced in academia and beyond. open.spotify.com/episode/4QVI...

Kirjoitin Venäjän oppositiosta ja kasvavasta repressiosta maasta. Kun yhä useammat ihmiset joutuvat maanpakoon, on vaarana opposition hajaantuminen. Tämä on ollut Assadin tavoitteena Syyriassa ja leirien eriytyminen voi olla Venäjänkin opposition kohtalo. politiikasta.fi/onko-venajan...

GAZA by Palestinian-Syrian artist Hani Abbas

Syria folks, what do you think is the best piece on the militarization of the Syrian uprising? Does not have to be an academic text. menasky

As of December, the ILO and PCBS estimated that 66% of employment (192k jobs) had been lost in Gaza and 32% (276k) in the West Bank. This is 40 percent of total employment in the oPT, and that was as of December.

The deadline for submissions to our special issue on Palestine and ethnography is extended to March 20. See the call below 👇 menasky

Here we go again! MENA politics and societies started today, this time with University of Helsinki and Open University. Glad to see some 80 participants as these topics have again become so topical.

Shameful that Finland is not funding #UNRWA after several countries and EU Commission have done so. The minister in charge is from a populist right wing party & decision serves its constituency. #Cease_fire_In_Gaza_Now www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

”Sota teki Pekka Toverista ensin median lemmikin ja sitten kansanedustajan” mutta onko hän edelleen median lemmikki? Olisiko joissain kohdissa voinut haastaa haastateltavaa, @hannamahlamaki.bsky.social?

And ceasefire now so that aid can get through.

Commission will proceed to paying EUR 50 million to UNRWA and increase emergency support to Palestinians by EUR 68 million in 2024 Next all governments who halted UNRWA aid need to follow. Including Finland. @VilleTavio @elinavaltonen neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...

BTG is excited to announce the launch of the 2024 New Era Workshop applications! NEW is BTG's annual 3-day training workshop for PhD students in international affairs. Join us October 13-15 at the University of Denver! www.bridgingthegapproject.org/new-era-work...

Biden’s inaction towards Israel could cost him his second term. "We have led a movement that is far exceeding expectations, using the ballot box to urge America to stop killing our families. That's all we're asking for. Just stop killing our families.” www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1...

Read even briefly a/b the Village Leagues, the Palestinian National Guard, & other "local officials" Israel installed to "govern" occupied Palestinian communities in Palestine & Lebanon & you know this is a non-starter. The abuse & violence were horrific. It led directly to grassroots resistance.

Fiction often explains the world the best. Hala Alyan: The Arsonists’s City “We used to have gardens in Palestine, trees that belonged to us.” “Yes, the colonizers. They’re involved, however indirectly, in every single political thing that’s happened since the Ottomans.”

”We, Palestinians in the diaspora, will not stand by and watch a genocide being committed against our families and our people. We will use all means at our disposal, from protests on the streets to lawsuits in criminal courts.”