On Tuesday, INCORE celebrated the 25th anniversary of our partner REACT Armagh. We also launched the North South Way Peace Camino, a community-led initiative connecting people, communities & landscapes across a 40-mile shared route from Portadown to Carlingford. More on this soon!

I’m thrilled to announce our new book series Pioneering Peace: New Paradigms in Peace and Conflict Studies, published in collaboration with @ulsteruniincore.bsky.social and edited by @brandonhamber.bsky.social. Please spread the word! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...

Work with us. Permanent job opening in World Politics at University of Helsinki. Emphasis on Peace and Conflict Studies and Critical Security Studies. #worldpolitics #peacestudies #securitystudies #academicjobs #internationalrelations jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Ma tribune du jour dans @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Two cool student assistant positions at @bicc.de

Join us for a fascinating talk by Dr. Henri Myrttinen on "The Contestation and Re-Constitution of Femininities, Masculinities and Diverse Gender Identities in Myanmar’s ‘Spring Revolution’". Magee Campus, April 20, 12-1.30pm, lunch offered. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-s...

@ulsteruniincore.bsky.social & @jdsjournal.bsky.social invite applications for the Disappearance Studies Conference scheduled to take place from 30.08.26 – 01.09.26 on the Derry-Londonderry Campus of Ulster University. Proposals can be submitted by March 20, 2026. Learn more at our website ⬇️

INCORE co-hosted an event entitled 'Bridging Individual, Organisation, and Community-Wellbeing: Hope as a Framework for Collective Action', at Magee, Ulster University @ulsteruni.bsky.social, on 17/02. This seminar kickstarts a new, large, and multiyear project on hope in the Derry/Londonderry area.

Proud to announce the publication of this OA article, which was long in the making. In it, @baharbaser.bsky.social & I argue that diaspora securitization works in a similar way to reaffirm national unity and safety for both host and home states. Please share! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NCORE is inviting contributions for a new series of short, accessible blog posts that explore how peace and conflict are lived, understood and negotiated in different places and communities. Please share the call widely! www.ulster.ac.uk/incore/blog-... @ulsteruni.bsky.social

Great opportunity to engage further with the arguments @wlacher.bsky.social and I are developing in our latest piece in @dissentmag.bsky.social. Sign up!

On January 24, 2026, Re-(E)MBody project members @eliseferon.bsky.social and @anoushpetrossian.bsky.social presented their ongoing research with Vadim Romashov at the Between Peripheries Inaugural Conference of the CEESHub @securityhub.ee in Tallinn, Estonia. To learn more follow our website!

Kurdish friends are sharing their horror about what's happening in Kobani & the lack of attention this is getting. My friend has shared details of a press conference from the region today (22 Jan 2pm CET) if anyone knows a journalist who might attend. #Rojava

📣 Call for Contributions –Disappearance Studies 📅 Abstract Deadline: March 20, 2026 📌 August 30-September 2, 2026 – Derry/Londonderry 🖋️ [email protected] INCORE & the Journal of Disappearance Studies invite applications for the Disappearance Studies Conference. Please share the call widely!

We are advertising for expressions of interest in ESRC funded PhD opportunities at @livunipol.bsky.social. The dept has a very wide range of exciting research specialisms, including British Politics, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Public Policy, amongst others.

Have a look at the workshop on Feminist Knowledge Production as Resistance in Times of Remilitarisation @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social and I are organising, and join us in Izmir, Turkey this July! eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

We're excited to share details for our second Conversation on Disappearance, taking place on January 27! This session will be focused on cultural responses to disappearance. Further information and registration available here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...

An excellent and thoughtful piece by @yguichaoua.bsky.social and @wlacher.bsky.social, well worth reading for those of us who have been wondering where the future of peace and conflict research, and more importantly, teaching, lies. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs

INCORE wishes you a peaceful holiday season!

I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING

Please come attend what promises to be a fascinating panel on Truth, Memory & Justice on 10 December from 6 to 8 pm at @ulsteruni.bsky.social organised in cooperation with @conflicttextiles.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and the Tower Museum in Derry-Londonderry

Belfast book launch today! 📚

INCORE & The John and Pat Hume Foundation are delighted to invite you to an address by Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC on ‘Lawyers in the Firing Line: Attacking the Advocates' at 6.30pm on 8 December in Room BC LG 304 on our Belfast campus @ulsteruni.bsky.social Register here: buytickets.at/humefoundati...

The Spanish public television has published the first audiovisual map showing the 6,000 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Francoist dictatorship (1939-1975). A testimony of what happens when fascism wins -something unknown in most of Europe.

Assistant Professor in Environmental #Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. 5 year fixed term tenure track, full time. Closing Date: 12 Noon (Irish Standard Time), 01 December 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a...

Join us on Nov 25 at 5.30pm for Daniel Trilling' talk on “How Did We Get Here? The Rise of Britain’s Far Right” (Magee Campus, Derry). This is the first lecture in our “Safety, Security and Wellbeing for All” series. Register there: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we... @ulsteruni.bsky.social

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space.... This is not normal. I have no words. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Celebrate with us the publication of “Transitional Justice and the Kurdish Conflict: A Grassroots Approach” (Routledge 2025) by Dr Nisan Alıcı! The event, co-hosted by INCORE & TJI, will take place on December 12 at 2pm on our Belfast Campus. More info 👇 www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...

Really looking forward to discussing my latest book ‘Constructing Victimhood’ @QUBMitchell on 29 Oct, 1pm - 2.30pm. With Legacy back on the agenda, sign up and join this timely conversation: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...

My co-authored article with Iepke Rijcken and Kyoko Shinozaki, “Embodied experiences in motion: integrating the senses in research and teaching” has just been published in @ersjournal.com as part of the Special Issue: Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies.

The Disappearance Studies Conference opened yesterday and continues today at Notre Dame. The event marks the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies — an interdisciplinary platform to examine the phenomenon of disappearance worldwide. @eliseferon.bsky.social @profcheryllawther.bsky.social

#CfP: The Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference 2026, Queen’s University Belfast 7th – 8th May 2026 Details here: sociology.ie/event/2026-a... We would love to see you in beautiful Belfast! #sociology #socialtheory #sai26 #spéirghorm

The Journal of Disappearance Studies, with the Keough-Naughton Institute and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will hold its inaugural conference Sept. 29-30 at Notre Dame. @eliseferon.bsky.social @simonrobins.bsky.social ▶️ See the full schedule: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

Huge congratulations to Dr Adrian Grant & CAIN for securing funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for his project “Home in Troubled Times: Exploring everyday life and conflict in Northern Ireland using digital archives”, which INCORE is proud to host! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Discover Missing and Found, an educational journey of students from the College of Ypres that traces the legacy of WWI’s missing persons through Flanders Fields. Our short report and the documentary critically examine the enduring impact of historical disappearance. projects.tuni.fi/re-embody/ne...

On the The International Day of the Disappeared, families in Goris & Yerevan honored their missing loved ones through the exhibition Absent but Not Forgotten and the screening of performance Lanterns of Silence. Our researcher Anush Petrosyan reports from Armenia: projects.tuni.fi/re-embody/ne...

@anoushpetrossian.bsky.social recently presented her work on missing persons in Armenia at a Berlin workshop hosted by Conciliation Resources, titled Power, Place and Knowledge: Intellectuals, Scholars and Epistemologies of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict. projects.tuni.fi/re-embody/ne...

Exciting News! Our Principal Investigator has been appointed as Professor and Director of INCORE at Ulster University! Join us in congratulating @eliseferon.bsky.social on this incredible milestone, and follow us to see how this new chapter shapes our project. projects.tuni.fi/re-embody/ne...

Our PI Élise Féron recently presented the preliminary results of her research on the missing of the WWI Western Front at the annual conference of the International Association for Reconciliation Studies, held in Seoul on July 14-18. Read more at our website ⬇️ projects.tuni.fi/re-embody/ne...

Friends, colleagues. I'm recruiting a student assistant to join our research project Governing Jihad in Africa. Someone preferably based in Bonn and surroundings. Please circulate in your networks or recommend your best students!

📢 Call for Papers WORKSHOP: Gender, Peace, and Security: Resistance and Resilience Nairobi, 1-3 December, hosted by British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) with @rvinews.bsky.social ➡️ Application deadline 13 August! @statsvitenskap.bsky.social #resilience #gender #climate #peacebuilding

Postdoc in Narrative Geopolitics @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social We're hiring a postdoc w a strong foundation in international relations, political science, or similar to study how emotionally charged narratives influence international security & great power politics. fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I am excited to welcome two brilliant, fully-funded PhD researchers to @uofglasgow.bsky.social this autumn to work on different aspects of migration politics @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Supporting early-career scholars is one of the best parts of academic life, I am thrilled to share more below! 🧵

War affects nature in so many ways you would never think of without seeing it first. Birds on the front lines weave their nests from fiber optics. Photo from AzovMedia

📢We have an exciting offer for early-careers from CEE and scholars from the Global South. 👉We are able to offer 10 travel bursaries (5 × €500 for early-career scholars from CEE; 5 × €750 for scholars from the Global South) for our conference. See👇for information on how to apply and the conditions.

I am thrilled to share that I will join @ulsteruni.bsky.social as a Professor and Director of @ulsteruniincore.bsky.social as of August 1st. It is an incredible honour for me, as INCORE has played a major role in my research. For more info: www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

Are you doing research in contexts of conflict, insecurity and development? Are you using participatory and creative research methods? Apply now for our one-day workshop on 26 September, where we will discuss the benefits, practical and ethical challenges in using participatory methodologies.