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Liana Eustacia Reyes
@lianaeustacia.bsky.social
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Fellow @ Dartmouth - Dickey Center. Assistant Professor @ Purdue. Director of Law & Conflict Lab. Research on causes & consequences of law, governance, & conflict resolution, emphasis on civil wars. Proud Latina: Cubana/Venezolana/Arubana.
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Liana Eustacia Reyes @lianaeustacia.bsky.social · Aug 22
Pub Alert! Check out or work on the use of military versus civilian trials during armed conflict. We bridge work on rebel taxation, crime, civil war, and justice/comparative courts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @cloyle.bsky.social @justinconrad.bsky.social
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Megan A. Stewart @meganastewart.bsky.social · Dec 19
Interesting article on how rebels use narcotics (both directly and as finance), but the Taliban's approach was not uncommon. The Chinese Communist Party destroyed many opium crops but kept some to manufacture anesthetics (at minimum), and in work with @lianaeustacia.bsky.social and Justin Conrad ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Dec 18
To fund a war with the U.S., the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Once victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.
The Once Booming Drug Town Going Bust Under Taliban Rule
Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Dec 15
Headed to APSA 2025? I’m putting together a panel on new approaches to military effectiveness. All methods + time periods welcome! (We have an experiment on discrimination and unit cohesion, for example). If you’re interested, send me an email.
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Tanisha Fazal @tanishafazal.bsky.social · Dec 12
Folks: does anyone know of any studies on whether academics move more than people in other professions? TIA.
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Megan A. Stewart @meganastewart.bsky.social · Nov 8
Kicking off Peace Science over dinner with @lianaeustacia.bsky.social and Mich Gov Big Gretch, what?!?!
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Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · Sep 12
Is your Bluesky feed missing in conflict analysis? I made a starter pack of peace and conflict scholars to follow here. DM me if you want to be included.

#Conflictsky

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Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · May 14
New blogpost for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social with @cwiehler.bsky.social on why conflict researchers need to view communal conflict as a wartime phenomenon and how such a perspective can help prevent, curb, and resolve communal violence ⤵️

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Why communal conflict should be viewed as a wartime phenomenon
Violent local conflicts over land and resources are taking place almost exclusively in civil war-affected societies. Claudia Wiehler and Sebastian van Baalen argue that analysts and peacebuilding prac...
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Liana Eustacia Reyes @lianaeustacia.bsky.social · Apr 9
Thoroughly enjoyed discussing several papers at ISA, eating my way through SF, and celebrating the accomplishments of others. It was fun and probably my favorite SF trip. See you all again next year!
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Liana Eustacia Reyes @lianaeustacia.bsky.social · Feb 27
Fortunate to have such an amazing and brilliant colleague like @mjcohen.bsky.social! Beyond excited for her new book on protest voting in Latin America!! Electoral behavior, invalid voting, democracy, new knowledge in an election year? What more do you need?!
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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · Jan 31
If the book gets 1500 downloads before February 13th, I’ll run a 5k in a prom dress.
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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · Jan 30
My latest book, on rebel groups' management of marriage, is available and FREE to download for 2 weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · Jan 30
My latest book, on rebel groups' management of marriage, is available and FREE to download for 2 weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · Jan 27
Today Is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Germany’s memory landscape helps us teach about the past – and the present.

Read this moving post from @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/interna...
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Liana Eustacia Reyes @lianaeustacia.bsky.social · Jan 16
Congratulations!!!
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Carly Wayne @carlynwayne.bsky.social · Jan 15
What happens when a formal modeler and a political psychologist walk into a room? …Very excited that my paper with @keithschnak.bsky.social, Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics, has been accepted at APSR! 1/7
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Liana Eustacia Reyes @lianaeustacia.bsky.social · Jan 5
Love this study and seeing it in print! Congrats @sebvanbaalen.bsky.social on another fantastic pub.
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Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · Jan 4
🔖 New open-access article out in @WorldDevJournal on why some armed groups restrain violent communal conflict in areas under their control while others do not ⤵️

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Keeping communal peace in the shadow of civil war: A natural experiment from Côte d’Ivoire
Violent communal conflicts between identity-based groups are a severe threat to human security and development. While most communal conflicts take pla…
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · Jan 3
below is a link to the syllabus for the grad seminar I'll teach this spring on the "political economy of developing countries."

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Jan 3
Claudine Gay responds, and she’s spot on:

“It is not lost on me that I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes unfolding on American campuses: a Black woman selected to lead a storied institution.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/o...
Opinion | Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me
The demagogues won’t stop with Harvard.
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Tanisha Fazal @tanishafazal.bsky.social · Dec 31
Disease as the long shadow of war.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Dec 30
This is the most important story you need to read today. There is a very real risk of half a million Palestinians dying in Gaza in the next year from preventable disease.
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It’s not just bullets and bombs. I have never seen health organisations as worried as they are abo...
A quarter of its Gaza’s population could die within a year due to outbreaks caused by this unprecedented conflict, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
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Megan A. Stewart @meganastewart.bsky.social · Nov 26
Looking forward to discussing Kevin Lou’s work on land reform, revolution, and civil war mobilization this Friday at 1pm EST at the virtual Chinese Politics Research in Progress seminar. More information and link here: chinesepoliticsresearchinprogress.com/schedule/
Presentations Schedule
Fall, 2023 Dec. 1 (Friday), 2023, 1-2PM (EST) / 12-1 PM (CST) / 10-11AM (PST) "Revolutionary Legacies and Redistribution: Guerrilla Warfare, Revolutionary Agents, and Land Reform in Communist China" K...
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Liana Eustacia Reyes @lianaeustacia.bsky.social · Nov 13
Another wonderful Peace Science conference. My heart and mind are full. Thanks to all for the brilliant work and welcoming community!
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Liana Eustacia Reyes @lianaeustacia.bsky.social · Nov 8
Like the Wu-Tang reference.
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Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · Nov 6
Excited to be going to Belfast next week to participate in a panel on Cultural Memory in the Bridging the Atlantic conference (it will be live streamed): globalirish.georgetown.edu/bridgingthea...
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Carla Martinez Machain @carlammm.bsky.social · Nov 5
It's time to vote for ISA officers! Very honored to be nominated for an at-large position along some amazing people. Check out candidate statements and **vote** ! 🗳

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ISA 2025-2026 Annual Election
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Liana Eustacia Reyes @lianaeustacia.bsky.social · Oct 31
Felicitaciones @laiabalcells.bsky.social !!!
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Mark Berlin @markberlin2.bsky.social · Oct 25
I’m officially an et al.! We analyzed the discourse of al-Masra, an Arabic language newspaper linked to AQAP, surrounding over 100 individuals and organizations across 1250 articles Menasky Conflictsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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