Aila Matanock

Absolutely delighted to be working more with @ucigcc.bsky.social - such a fantastic organization!

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. Read more at buff.ly/Py6JVO0

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

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

🌏 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

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...

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

#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

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/...

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

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

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...

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

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/

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

🏆 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

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

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!

Thrilled and still quite shocked to receive the 2024 Karl Deutsch Award from ISA last week at the annual meeting. I am lucky to have the most amazing community who makes this work possible – and fun! Many thanks to you and the selection committee. www.isanet.org/News/ID/6384... #conflictsky #polisky

Is #Facebook *the* breeding ground for intolerance? My new Political Communication piece w/ Oren Samet & Leo Arriola challenges assumptions, shows that FB users in #Myanmar are more tolerant. Social media can be a bad tool but more nuance is needed: doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #conflictsky

From the ESOC Call for Papers for 2024 Annual Meeting: This year's theme is “Hate and Conflict." The submission deadline for full working papers is June 14th, and the meeting will be on October 17-19 at UCLA. See link for more details: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #Polisky #ConflictSky

Great over view of trends in/ rise of conflict scholarship on Colombia in recent years

From EGAP (with deadline on March 1!): *APPLY NOW* for the EGAP West Africa Regional Hub at CERAP Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire Learning Days workshop (24-29 June). The workshop will focus on causal inference in impact evaluation for Africa-based researchers and evaluators egap.org/project/lear... #polisky

Very happy to see this whole volume about public opinion and the peace process in Colombia, and to have some of work with Natalia Garbiras Diaz & Miguel Garcia Sanchez finally published en español - muchas gracias a Miguel and Sandra! Polisky Conflictsky

Really looking forward to reading this article that promises to help set the agenda on gender and conflict:

Call for proposals: Visions in Methodology Conference 2024! VIM is designed to support women who study political methodology! WUSTL will be hosting it on May 24! Send your proposals! Spread the voice! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You still have time to submit your application for the 2024 Policy Outreach Award! The award will support outreach efforts from early-career scholars that convey policy implications of the scholar’s research to policy practitioners. bridgingthegapproject.org/policy-outre...

As 2023 draws to a close, a dozen University of California experts reflect on how a year of converging crises upended old assumptions while opening space for new possibilities. Read their analysis on democracy, environment, security, disinformation, the war on drugs, and more here: bit.ly/3NtQDHk

Introducing Conflictsky, a new feed for political conflict and violence! Like and pin the feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:... To post, tag with 'conflictsky' or 'violencesky' It's a polisky sub-feed, so request to join that list if you haven't already: www.paulmusgrave.info/how-to-use-p...