I am delighted to share the best news in my professional life: I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to lead the project ‘Hashtag-wars’ that explores the participation of ordinary people in distant armed conflicts by digital means. Read more: www.cmi.no/news/3497-ne...
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Joke Wars is a short comic about the darker side of humour. The comic is a part of The WARFUN Project at cmi.no Read it here: www.cmi.no/publications...

Written by Eva Johais @mlleeva.bsky.social and drawn by me.

This is a page that I really enjoyed drawing, from Joke Wars by @mlleeva.bsky.social and me. The link to the comic is in the previous post.

In the short comic Joke Wars, Eva Johais @mlleeva.bsky.social explores the dark side of humour in international military operations. Drawn by me, and digital edition is available for free at cmi.no

14 - Humour, War and International Relations WARFUN Podcast · Episode

What can a focus on humour reveal about international politics? And why, for whom and with what consequences is the Russia-Ukraine war more ‘fun’ than the war in Gaza?
Out now: Episode 14 of the WARFUN podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/6Iqp...

Joke Wars The WARFUN team is happy to present the new WARFUN Comic "Joke Wars" written by Eva Johais and drawn by Fredrik Rysjedal.

Proud to present my first comic “Joke Wars” – the outcome of a collaboration with the fabulous @veslefrik.bsky.social www.cmi.no/publications...

What can soldier humour tell us about international relations? Read about it here: publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/05/21/i...

Schlagfertigkeit. A soldier skill Are soldiers funny? On the face of it, fun is antithetical to the serious trade of the military profession, models of the decent and responsible soldier, and the strains of military life. However, ...

I promise this article is worth your time if reading it is only half the fun of writing it:
Schlagfertigkeit. A soldier skill www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....