The CAT initiative offers teams of #EarlyCareerResarchers (3-5 members) short stays at FRIAS or other European Institutes for Advanced Studies. Deadline: 14 October 2025. More information: uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

#CallforApplications #CfA for researchers from #Africa: Apply for our fellowship programme 2026/27. Deadline: 12 September 2025, 13:00 (CET) uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Le 11 novembre, l’ #Angola fête les 50 ans de son indépendance. L’occasion pour certains de demander la réhabilitation de personnalités et de mouvements pour leur rôle dans la guerre contre le colon portugais... Quitte à s'arranger avec l’histoire. 📌 #Portugal #colonialisme #USA #MPLA #UNITA #FNLA

Great article by @senayboztas.bsky.social about what's really created the housing crisis in the Netherlands: the perks of the house possessing class and decades of neoliberal neglect of the social housing market. Pity it isn't in a Dutch paper. | @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Job Alert! We're still looking for a **Post-Doctoral researcher for our Governing Jihad in Africa Project**, with a focus on violence and counter-violence: - 3 years - based in Paris/Bordeaux - starting date: Jan 2026 - deadline: 15 Sept 2025 Vacancy (English): drive.google.com/file/d/1oLPb...

Some observations about the Marine Le Pen verdict: 1) WOW. They really went for it: prison term (w/electronic tag) and 5 years of ineligibility. That's almost exactly what the prosecutors asked for, so she's seriously guilty. 2) Will this halt the progress of the far-right in France? No. But... 1/

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐨 𝐞𝐬𝐭á 𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐝𝐨? -------------------------- "𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬õ𝐞𝐬 𝐩ó𝐬-𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬 𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚çã𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐦 𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐝𝐨" 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝟑𝟎: 4 de fevereiro de 2025 15h00 Poderá se inscrever neste evento através do link: shorturl.at/r0oPj AfroLuso AfricanJihad #Mozambique #CaboDelgado

People are sleeping on this story—wrongly. Used to be that international media actually dispatched people to cover African events like these, shaping up to be another round of continental war. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Closing in two weeks: 2 open positions in my new consolidator project "Decades of Peace" at the University of Zurich @ipz.bsky.social funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social, focusing on Latin America. PhD position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:e32a... Postdoc position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e1...

JOB ALERT: I have two vacancies for fully-funded, 4 year PhD positions in my European Research Council Project “Countering Jihadi Insurgencies in Africa”; one on Nigeria, one on Mozambique. Closing date for applications 15 March 2025, start in Sept. 2025 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

English version of our piece on the deployment of Kenyan policemen in Haiti. Outcomes are... mixed

Mozambique opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane has arrived back in the country after his self-imposed exile. He definitely knows how to make an entrance. If anyone knows what book he is holding, let me know - my best guess is a Bible? web.facebook.com/watch/live/?...

Fantastic book presentation by @vtsagkr.bsky.social of ‘Radicalisation and Crisis Management’ (Springer) with @dafnoukos.bsky.social and Arjen Boin at @leidensocial.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Very excited to have joined @bubaimrana.bsky.social's PhD supervision team (alongside @janakrause.bsky.social @corinnajentzsch.com). Imrana does really impressive research on civilian agency in the Boko Haram insurgency. Follow him, and check out his 🏆 award-winning paper ⤵️ doi.org/10.1093/isag...

Met je "maar netto wordt er meer geïnvesteerd in het hoger onderwijs." Stelletje oplichters. "Sinds 2000 is de overheidsfinanciering per student in Nederland met 25% afgenomen. In diezelfde periode verdubbelde het aantal studenten en groeide de onderzoekslast." www.scienceguide.nl/2024/12/oeso...

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith... Conflictsky

The application for Claude Ake Visiting Chair 2025 is open! We invite senior African scholars to apply for a 3-month scholarship in Uppsala. Scholars awarded the Chair pursue their own research while contributing to activities at our dep. and the Nordic Africa Institute.👉 nai.uu.se/opportunitie...

📣 Attention all peace and conflict scholars and practitioners! The call for the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference 2025 is out! Get your paper, panel and workshop submissions in by 17th January 😀 conflictresearchsociety.org/call-for-pap...

Lusophone Africa's Gen X joining the choir of discontent: in Luanda, Angola, thousands of people took to the streets to protest against hunger, poverty and unemployment. Echoing the sentiment of Mocambican protesters, they say they're fed up with MPLA's 49 years rule. www.rfi.fr/pt/%C3%A1fri...

Mozambique's 🇲🇿 opposition leader, Venâncio Mondlane, asked people to drive and leave their cars on main roads to turn the streets into “parking lots” throughout the day. Roads in Maputo, the capital, were blocked and public transport interrupted at the start of a fresh round of three-day protests.

I've started a list of PoliSky Sub-feeds. If you know of one (or started one) that should be added, please re-skeet the feed announcement and @profruback.bsky.social when you do. I'll add it ASAP. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social, @profmusgrave.bsky.social )

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The news is now public: @emorier.bsky.social (QUB), Vincent Foucher (CNRS), @corinnajentzsch.com (Leiden) and I (BICC) are the recipients of an ORA8 research grant! We are delighted. Three years of exciting research ahead. Stay tuned, notably if you'd like to do a postdoc with us

Mozambique's elections for president & parliament are taking place today, follow the live blog below for updates, for background and overview of candidates for president, read this: www.zitamar.com/high-turnout... afripolsky poliscisky

We're hiring a full professor of international relations at the institute of Political Science at Leiden University! Please spread the word and get in touch with questions. www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20... poliscisky conflictsky gendersky

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. The crime of #CRSV continues to be prevalent on a global scale, as a recent report by the UN Secretary General shows. Simone Wisotzki summarizes its core findings on #PRIFblog. blog.prif.org/2024/06/19/s...

All Souls College, Oxford, is offering six postdoctoral research fellowships in various subjects, including one in Politics. These are 5-year appointments with a start date of October 2025. Deadline: 6 September 2024. Details here: www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

Krasser Vorfall im BMBF: Geprüft werden sollte, ob man Wissenschaftler*innen Fördermittel streichen kann. Schon die 1. Antwort (s. Emailverlauf) ist allerdings beruhigend: 'kein prüffähiger Sachverhalt zu erkennen'. #Wissenschaftsfreiheit daserste.ndr.de/panorama/Als...

An incredibly powerful and important piece on political relativity and the denial of rape in war, by Mia Bloom and Edna Erez polisky | gendersky | conflictsky

Applications now open for the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War's 2024-25 non-resident fellow program. A low-obligation way to build your network among conflict scholars, with events & opportunities for blog posts/presentations www.civilwarpaths.org/fellowship-s... polisky conflictsky

A new and generous review of my book was just published in African Affairs; thanks to the authors for their wonderful discussion! academic.oup.com/afraf/advanc...

Newest POMEPS studies collection focuses on the many impacts of the war on Gaza:

very cool #PhD opportunity #anthropology #politicalecology www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

📢The last in this year's seminar series of our ECPR Network is on May 8! We will read 'Diplomacy beyond the State: Ukrainian think tanks as wartime diplomacy actors' by V Axyonova & K Lozka, with Diane Stone leading the discussion. More info & registration: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... 🌐 Conflictsky

⏰ Applications for our dissertation fieldwork support grants are due in exactly one month! ⬇️ Details below…

Die deutsche Beteiligung am UN-Einsatz in #Mali wurde bis 2023 immer wieder verlängert, obwohl die Erfolgsaussichten sanken. Im neuen PRIF Report 2/2024 untersucht Thorsten Gromes, mit welchen Argumenten der Bundestag den Einsatz rechtfertigte. www.prif.org/publikatione...

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

At extremely long last, the US has released its 10-year Global Fragility Act country plans, including for Mozambique. state.gov/wp-content/u... Here's my early analysis on the plan's notable strengths and considerable weaknesses: acleddata.com/acleddatanew...

"" Black Carnation ** I've co-organised the colloquium " #Carnation #Revolution: Global Perspectives" with 2 panels on #Africa & African #diaspora. This week at @UMassD. LusoAfrica More details here: www.heraldnews.com/story/news/l...

Job alert! We're hiring a PhD student, interested in state repression & computational methods, @unileiden.bsky.social. Position is fully funded w/ generous research funds. The supervision team includes @babakr.bsky.social and @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social Contact us for questions t.co/ohLmduxYd1 polisky

Are we measuring terrorism right? Neil Ketchley and I have a new article in the Journal of Conflict Resolution showing that you can get different answers to the question "what causes terrorism" depending on how you operationalize terrorist activity. 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Powerful: "Germany prefers to remember Jews as victims, rather than as the bold and brave champions of universal HR we have sometimes been. It’s a standpoint that not only reveals an ignorance of Arendt; it shows how little the country still knows about Jews." www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/1...

Adopting policy stances of the radical right is…counterproductive. @tabouchadi.bsky.social explains how in many countries the mainstream right has basically been campaigning for the radical right. The Dutch elections of 22 November are a case in point. stukroodvlees.nl/episode-120-...

I'm looking to hire a part-time grad student research assistant/lab manager this spring for the Policing Lab at Hamilton College. More details about the lab are here: www.hamiltonpolicinglab.com. Please help spread the word! cc polisky, intsec, dictatorsky

Call for application: One-Year Fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. If you are an Africa-based scholar at post-doc level with a historical book projet that you want to finish in this writing retreat, please consider applying. www.historischeskolleg.de/consolidator...

Wagner in Africa is now Africa Corps. The name's resemblance to the Wehrmacht's Afrikakorps is purely coincidental, of course. www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

Territorial control is a core concept in civil war research. In a new essay with @abbeyst.bsky.social in @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social, we theorize *social control* as its complement. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... civilwars25thanniversary

(Some day, someone should write about how media incentives and repression shaped reporting (and therefore data) on the conflict in northern Mozambique. The differences between coverage in Moz and southern Tanzania are stark.)

This is SUCH an important research agenda. I was an ACLED analyst, and we did good work, but I saw (and still see) journalism-sourced data get portrayed far, far too often as comprehensive or representative.

ICYMI. Read Tareq Baconi on Hamas' strategy & the unsustainability of an apartheid status quo foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/22/h... Menasky polisky