Congrats to @alichtenheld.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 CRS Book Prize. Read this important book on displacement! And special thanks from my side to the book prize judges: @allardduursma.bsky.social, Peer Schouten, and Isabel A. Phillips.

The UN is increasingly sharing the peacekeeping burden with regional organizations and ad hoc coalitions of states. What does this partnership peacekeeping mean for the protection of civilians (PoC)? I analyze this in this policy brief for the @ipinst.bsky.social : www.ipinst.org/2025/05/prot.... @

This was long in the making (I think I started thinking about this stuff in 2017) ;-) thanks @realmps.bsky.social for the fun and great collaboration!

As chair of the Conflict Research Society (CRS) Book Prize I am excited to announce the 2025 shortlisted authors/books. Congrats to all four, and to everyone else: read these timely books! @thecrs.bsky.social

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.