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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 20d

For today's spotlight on EGAPers researching #conflict, read about @matanock.bsky.social work with Miguel Garcia-Sanchez to measure social support during counterinsurgency in Colombia.

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Brief 46: Measuring Social Support During Counterinsurgency in Colombia – EGAP

EGAP researcher: Aila Matanock

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · Jul 14

Are you a researcher or practitioners focused on governance, politics, & institutions displaced by recent policy shifts? EGAP is providing a platform to continue vital conversations and evidence-sharing!

Learn more & apply here: buff.ly/J5BOmVK

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Jun 3

A fantastic panel kicking off the Empirical Studies of Conflict meeting in Taipei thanks to the organizing work of @renardsexton.bsky.social and NTU! Chia-yi Lee @dotanhaim.bsky.social @emilyrussell.bsky.social

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Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · May 22

🌏 Insights from CEGA’s latest blog post show how Southeast Asian countries are responding to geopolitical competition, security threats, and rising power rivalries.

🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/SEAsiaInsights

New Threats, Ad-hoc Networks, and Strategic Flexibility: Security Insights from Southeast Asia

On March 26 and 27, 2025, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Center for Asia Globalization (CAG) hosted the “Workshop on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order: Southeast...

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Mashail Malik @mamalik.bsky.social · May 28

Please circulate!
@wpmarble
and I are looking for a part-time RA to help with various data tasks. This is a remote-work position that is ideal for recent graduates who are considering applying for a social science PhD. Apply here: forms.gle/EN3JLUiNm8m4...

Research Assistant Position with Malik and Marble

Prof. Mashail Malik (Harvard) and Dr. William Marble (Stanford) are searching for a part-time research assistant (RA) primarily for a project on the political integration of immigrants in the United S...

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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · May 22

Please Share: Do you know talented young people considering doing a PhD? the @snfagora.bsky.social at @JHU will welcome at least two pre-doctoral fellows for AY25-27.

snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-ac...

#gendersky #econsky #polisky #academicsky #predoc #fellow

SNF Agora Academy Predoctoral Fellowship : Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins

Strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue

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Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · May 14

#NewCEGABlog: Pacific for Whom?

CEGA recently convened leading security experts from the Pacific region to explore how geopolitical competition interacts with foreign aid and security arrangements.

Learn more here:
go.cega.org/blogPacificForWhom

Pacific for Whom? Order Contestation in the Pacific Region

On February 24, 2025, CEGA hosted the Pacific Conference on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order at the East-West Center and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In this post, CEGA’s...

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · May 7

Our call for the 2025 Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Annual Meeting on Geostrategic Opportunity and Upheaval on October 9-10 is up! Submissions due on June 16. W/ Yuri Zhukov @laiabalcells.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social @renardsexton.bsky.social More here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Call for Papers and Policy Panel Proposals: 2025 ESOC Annual Meeting

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POLICY PANEL PROPOSALSSubmission Deadline: June 16, 2025The Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Project is holding its Annual Meeting October 9-10, 2025 in Washington D.C.The Annu...

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Apr 16

Can't wait to head down to UCSB in a couple of weeks to help launch @wnomikos.bsky.social's fantastic book!

William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · Apr 16

Amid all the uncertainty around the world, I am so honored that I get to have a book launch for Local Peace, International Builders with discussants @matanock.bsky.social and Salma Mousa.

📘 Book Link: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace

If you're in Santa Barbara on April 30th, come join us!

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Feb 13

Reminder that the @cega-uc.bsky.social #AES2025 deadline for speakers and posters is tomorrow - more information here: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-a...

2025 Africa Evidence Summit

CEGA and NIERA will co-host the 13th annual Africa Evidence Summit on June 23-24, 2025.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Jan 8

Are you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb.

Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...

HFG Emerging Scholars - HFG

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Dec 19

#conflictsky #polisky @austinlw.bsky.social & @renardsexton.bsky.social

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Dec 19

For early-career conflict researchers: the ESOC Mentorship Program is open! It provides fellows working on conflict with individual mentors, campus engagement with them, and professional development, including attending an ESOC meeting. More details here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

ESOC Mentorship Program applications due January 20th!

We are pleased to announce the sixth year of the ESOC Mentorship Program. The purpose of this program is to support an international community of early-career investigators engaged in top-notch empiri...

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Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Dec 17

Excited to share my new article (w/ Leo Arriola & @matanock.bsky.social) published in
@polcommjournal.bsky.social

Heard the claim that #Facebook caused a genocide by fanning the flames of hate in #Myanmar? The reality may be more complicated…

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A brief 🧵 1/15

Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar

Are social media users in developing and conflict-affected countries more intolerant than non-users? As platforms like Facebook become increasingly viewed as drivers of polarization and violence, t...

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · Dec 9

Curious what happens at an EGAP meeting? Check out this recap of our plenary in Paris this past October. Many thanks to @vinarceneaux.bsky.social & CEVIPOF for hosting & to all who joined for a productive and insightful two days! egap.org/resource/egap-plenary-meeting-in-review-paris-october-2024/

EGAP Paris meeting attendees gather for a group photo

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Patrick M Kuhn @pmkuhn.bsky.social · Nov 22

My small contribution to helping the electoral violence researchers to reconnect and encouraging everyone else interested in the topic to follow them.

Likely to have missed some (others might still join), so comment/DM to be included.

go.bsky.app/5ULK58P

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Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · Nov 19

🏆 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...

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CRS | Cedric Smith Prize

The CRS welcomes submissions for the Cedric Smith Prize 2019 which is a peace research prize awarded for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a student

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thanks to RIO and the special issue participants and editors, Duncan Snidal, Thomas Hale, Emily Jones, Claas Mertens, and Karolina Milewicz!

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Sep 11

The article is part of a special issue in the Review of International Organizations (RIO) on the power of the “weak” and international organizations that features many cool pieces, including one by recent UC Berkeley PhD Katie Beall: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Empowering to constrain: Procedural checks in international organizations - The Review of International Organizations

Why would weak states accept rules which authorize strong states to take coercive action against them? I argue that, in some cases, this is a way of creating constraints over the exercise power in the...

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Sep 11

In Weapons of the Weak State, we argue that the type of statebuilding contracts that are currently used provide tools that allow post-conflict states to influence what IO mandates contain, where they intervene, whom they hire, and when they exit - providing true power.

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Sep 11

So happy to finally have "Weapons of the Weak State: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding" with
@susannacampbell.bsky.social in print (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding - The Review of International Organizations

International Organizations (IOs), such as the United Nations (U.N.), engage in statebuilding in a range of post-conflict states. Statebuilding scholarship largely assumes that IOs, backed by their po...

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Legislators are key actors in the implementation of peace agreements. Yet they can be misinformed about citizens’ attitudes toward the provisions in these settlements and their own policy positions may not be responsive to information about the true level of support among their constituents."

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Aug 21

Many thanks to #EGAP for briefing our Journal of Conflict Resolution article with Miguel Garcia Sanchez and Natalia Garbiras Diaz about the #Colombia peace process (with applications to other peace processes currently in the works): egap.org/resource/wha...

What do politicians know about citizens’ preferences for peace agreement provisions? – EGAP

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Jun 5

Hoping to get some great papers - for my own curiosity especially on #Mexico #policing - for the @ESoConflict Annual Meeting (Oct 17-19, 2024 at UCLA). Please apply by June 14th! esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #conflictsky #polisky

Call for Papers: 2024 ESOC Annual Meeting

CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: June 14, 2024 The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) is holding its Annual Meeting October 17-19, 2024 at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA The Annual Meeting prog...

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · Apr 13

Thanks so much to @UCIGCC and Neil Narang/UCSB and the UC IR faculty in attendance for such a great day - got wonderful feedback and learned about some fantastic projects!

UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation @ucigcc.bsky.social · Apr 12

Our first presenter of the day, Aila Matanock of UC Berkeley (@matanock.bsky.social), shares her latest working paper, "Using Invited Intervention to Address Security Challenges", in collaboration with Wendy Wagner (UCSD) and Andrew Wojtanik (UC Berkeley). #UCCIC24

Professor Aila Matanock of UC Berkeley speaks at the 2024 UC Conference on International Cooperation

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