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Sara E Davies

@saraedavies.bsky.social

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Professor, International Relations, Griffith University. Deputy Director (Indo-Pacific Research) ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Project Lead, ACIAR Indo-Pacific Initiative for Sustainable Animal Health Cooperation. .. more

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Sara E Davies @saraedavies.bsky.social · Aug 20

On 16 September 1-2pm AEST Dr Michelle Rourke is giving a seminar on everything you need to know about taking a *One Health Approach to PABS in the Pandemic Agreement*. Not to be missed! Details 👇 #Pandemic #OneHealth #Equity #PABS #WOAH #WHO www.linkedin.com/posts/indo-p...

Save the date! | Indo-Pacific Initiative For Sustainable Animal Health Cooperation (IPI-SAHC)

Save the date! 📆 Tuesday 16 September 2025 Join us for another IPI-SAHC Planetary One Health Series🌏💌 Webinar: Taking a One Health Approach to Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) in the Pande...

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Sara E Davies @saraedavies.bsky.social · Mar 20

Congratulations @queenietomaro.bsky.social

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Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · Mar 14

🚨New online! "Preventing & countering violent extremism: the logics of women’s participation" by @queenietomaro.bsky.social, on participation of women in security spaces, using the Philippines as case study. ⬇️ #openaccess #academicpublishing #internationalsecurity
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

BSTRACT
Women’s participation in preventing and countering extremist
violence is increasingly prioritised in international, regional and
national policies on Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/
CVE), after the adoption of United Nations Security Council
Resolution 2242 (2015). It is crucial to analyse how local policies
construct women’s participation in local P/CVE, considering
influences from international and regional discourses. This paper
delves into the discourses on women’s participation in P/CVE,
seeking to explore the deeper logics that inform their
involvement in the P/CVE strategy of the Philippines. This
research unfolds in three distinct steps. First, a review of existing
literature on women and P/CVE. Second, I discuss the theoretical
and analytical approach of the research. Finally, I trace the
discourses on women’s participation within the nineteen policies
and identified three logics: logics of protection, political agency,
and religion. Studies on the discourses on women in P/CVE
policies allow us to interrogate the deeply seated assumptions
towards women in security spaces and how these assumptions
shape the participation spaces for women in extremist violence prevention work. Keywords: violent extremism; Phillippines; gender.

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Mar 13

Why did Australia border earlier than most others for #Covid19? Diego Leiva Van De Maele, @drjesskirk.bsky.social, @cosmohoward.bsky.social, Mariel Verroya & @saraedavies.bsky.social examine Australia’s policy at the time: buff.ly/bJgFcDB (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Mar 3

New research: More Australians consider Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.

🔴 Trump (31%)
🟠 Putin (27%)
🟠 Xi Jinping (27%)

Almost half (49%) said they felt less secure since the election of President Trump. 17% feel more secure. #auspol

Poll: Trump a greater threat to world peace than Putin or Xi

More Australians consider US President Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.

australiainstitute.org.au

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Mar 3

Something odd here.

CBS News confirms other media reports: "Hegseth has issued a directive to U.S. Cyber Command to pause planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions."

The CBS News then notes that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz said he's unaware of the directive.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has paused cyber offensive against Russia

The change comes amid President Trump's efforts to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

www.cbsnews.com

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Liz Zuccala @drzucc.bsky.social · Mar 3

Amid increasing backlash against #genderequity efforts worldwide, how and why should we seek to elevate women in #globalhealth leadership?

@saraedavies.bsky.social, @merusheel.bsky.social & co address this in @mja.com.au InSight+:

insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/8/reima...

#IWD25

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Sara E Davies @saraedavies.bsky.social · Feb 26

Yes! I saw this today. Weekend read

a penguin wearing ear muffs is reading a book in bed

ALT: a penguin wearing ear muffs is reading a book in bed

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stephanieternullo.bsky.social @stephanieternullo.bsky.social · Feb 25

In case anyone needs a break from reality (me, by 9 a.m. every day), my coauthor Anna Berg and I have a new, open access essay out in Perspectives! buff.ly/4gN6cFR. We describe the marginalization of qual methods in the study of American political behavior and make a case for their revival.

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Rod Dacombe @rod-dacombe.bsky.social · Feb 25

🚨🚨🚨Major job alert klaxon!!!🚨🚨🚨

In the Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social we are currently advertising for 3 permanent academic posts (2 Political Theory, 1 PPE)!

Details below. Happy to have an informal discussion with anyone interested.

Please share widely!!
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Feb 24

The overall story is of young Germans rejecting the established centre-right and centre-left, but while young men are shifting to both populist flanks, young women are shifting overwhelmingly to the populist left.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Feb 24

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:

Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.

www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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Sara E Davies @saraedavies.bsky.social · Feb 24

Community update: 3 strangers gather together on a sunny Brisbane evening walk. “Careful, I think I saw a snake”. “Is it dead or alive?”. “I think alive”. “How about I go first & one of you watch out?”. “Ok, but walk by on the road. We will watch out for cars”. “Argh! It’s real. Brown and grumpy”.

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Feb 23

🧵 This UN resolution vote on Ukraine is worth paying attention to. A brief thread on the Trump administration's bullying under way in the background. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

U.S. pressures Kyiv to replace U.N. resolution condemning Russia

The Trump administration wants Ukraine’s resolution withdrawn and replaced with a toned-down version that officials feel is overly sympathetic to Russia.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sophie Harman @profsophieharman.bsky.social · Feb 20

Trumps attacks on reproductive health around the world (and health more generally, but make no mistake whose health his real target is - women) had me thinking about this piece @saraedavies.bsky.social & I wrote 5 (!) years ago
academic.oup.com/isq/article/... Still holds

Securing Reproductive Health: A Matter of International Peace and Security

Abstract. Failure to access reproductive health care is a threat to the security of women around the world. This article offers three propositions to recog

academic.oup.com

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · Feb 3

Could the Bird Flu Become Airborne? Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...

Could the Bird Flu Become Airborne?

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

www.nytimes.com

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Sara E Davies @saraedavies.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hello! Nice to be here. Here to be nice. 😎

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