Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى
@salmamousa.bsky.social
Political scientist at UCLA / Social Cohesion / Social Justice / Field Experiments / 🇪🇬 / 🤘🏽 / ⚽️
Ending violence is not the same as building peace.
Do grassroots peacebuilding efforts matter for starting or ending wars?
We reviewed the evidence on peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding.... and found 3 tensions.
Now out in Economic Policy:
academic.oup.com/economicpoli...
Do grassroots peacebuilding efforts matter for starting or ending wars?
We reviewed the evidence on peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding.... and found 3 tensions.
Now out in Economic Policy:
academic.oup.com/economicpoli...
February 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Ending violence is not the same as building peace.
Do grassroots peacebuilding efforts matter for starting or ending wars?
We reviewed the evidence on peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding.... and found 3 tensions.
Now out in Economic Policy:
academic.oup.com/economicpoli...
Do grassroots peacebuilding efforts matter for starting or ending wars?
We reviewed the evidence on peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding.... and found 3 tensions.
Now out in Economic Policy:
academic.oup.com/economicpoli...
The @compactmagazin.bsky.social article relies on cherry-picked data.
Looking at ~5M employee records from public universities, we find:
There isn't a secret cabal of white men pulling the strings — the *top* diversified the most.
The tenure track hasn't been taken over by female or Black profs.
Looking at ~5M employee records from public universities, we find:
There isn't a secret cabal of white men pulling the strings — the *top* diversified the most.
The tenure track hasn't been taken over by female or Black profs.
Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024)
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The @compactmagazin.bsky.social article relies on cherry-picked data.
Looking at ~5M employee records from public universities, we find:
There isn't a secret cabal of white men pulling the strings — the *top* diversified the most.
The tenure track hasn't been taken over by female or Black profs.
Looking at ~5M employee records from public universities, we find:
There isn't a secret cabal of white men pulling the strings — the *top* diversified the most.
The tenure track hasn't been taken over by female or Black profs.
Yup. "Backlash" toward DEI driven by conservative elites, not the masses. The trend is even more stark when looking at beliefs about reverse discrimination.
December 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yup. "Backlash" toward DEI driven by conservative elites, not the masses. The trend is even more stark when looking at beliefs about reverse discrimination.