2/2 📝 Good Tune Theory: An Exploration of LGBTQIA+ Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
📍 Conflict Resolution Quarterly
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(1/2) New from Mehmet Yavuz: Two recent articles explore LGBTQIA+ peacebuilding and reconciliation in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina.

📝 “All I Want is to Leave, but When I Do, I Never Truly Leave”
📍 Journal of Homosexuality
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📢 Call for Papers!
The Journal of Perpetrator Research is seeking contributions for a special issue on ‘Dehumanization and Violence’, guest edited by Prof. Kjell Anderson.

🗓️ Full papers due: 15 Dec 2025
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🔥 New from Kai M. Thaler: From Insurgent to Incumbent (Comparative Politics)
How does ideology shape rebel governance & statebuilding after victory in civil wars?

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New from Ezenwa Olumba: A New Perspective on Immobility Amidst Adversity
This open-access article introduces a framework for understanding why people—especially indigenous communities—stay in conflict-affected areas.
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🌍 From Myanmar to Northern Ireland, and from workshops to publications—our members are shaping critical conversations across the globe.
🧠 The CRS community brings together diverse voices working at the intersection of conflict, peace, politics, and justice.

🎨 How do culture and heritage shape conflict and peace?
Giuditta Fontana edited a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics exploring these questions across Bosnia, Syria, Ukraine & Northern Ireland.
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📰 From peacebuilding strategies to armed group typologies and cultural narratives—our #CRSmembers have been active across the globe this month.
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📚 New from Florian Weigand in Journal of Global Security Studies:
“Agency during Armed Conflict: Everyday Life under Competing Authorities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State”
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Local-level peacebuilding: between theory and practice- Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights | BISA - Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group

📣 Anne Bajo presented her work on Malaysia’s role in Southeast Asian conflict resolution at BISA’s “Local-level Peacebuilding: Between Theory and Practice” RTD in London.
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(4/4) 📘 Anita Gohdes — Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence

Each of them offering timely insights into conflict and power.

(3/4)🏅 Congratulations also to the runners-up for the 2025 CRS Book Prize:

📘 Jerome Drevon — From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
📘 Erica L. Gaston — llusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria

(2/4) Lichtenheld shows how armed actors sort—not just expel—civilians, using displacement as a tool of control. A powerful rethink of forced migration in war zones.

Selected from 40+ nominations by global experts.

(1/4) 📚 The Conflict Research Society congratulates Adam Lichtenheld on winning the 2025 CRS Book Prize for:
Guilt by Location: Forced Displacement and Population Sorting in Civil Wars 👏

New from Simone Papale: Has Biden’s Africa policy really changed course?
Democracy promotion meets persistent remote interventionism.
📖 International Peacekeeping
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📢 New from Ana Lucía Peláez: How media frames shape resistance to renewable energy in Guatemala.
Alta Verapaz & Huehuetenango case studies.
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🕊️ In EJIR, Jennifer Hodge explores “disaggregated mediation” in Myanmar.
How does conflict fragmentation affect peace outcomes?
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Language of peace: why talk of ‘making deals’ rather than ‘reaching agreements’ is not helpful The language of peacemaking is critical to the success of a settlement.

💬 Deals vs agreements in peace discourse — why it matters.
John Gledhill on language & peacemaking in The Conversation.
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Farmer-Herder Crises, Uncivil Discourses and the Politics of Nigeria’s Security Responses Studies on farmer-herder conflicts using the Critical Discourse Approach often focus on media portrayals of the conflict. However, the interplay between discursive constructions by primordial or…

⚠️ Ezenwa Olumba & co-authors on Nigeria’s farmer-herder conflict and the politics of response.
📖 Human Affairs
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🧠 In her recent review for International Affairs, Charlotte Plews examines God, Guns and Sedition by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware — a timely analysis of far-right extremism in the US.
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In International Affairs, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos challenges dominant justifications of war through a pacifist lens in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Don’t miss these recent member highlights:
- Raphaël Lefèvre: Shia foreign fighters & ideological factionalism
- Assala Kethache: Wagner Group in North Africa (in Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies)
- Zurab Bezhanishvili: Trump Cards of Democracy

Voting for consensus Majority voting was dismissed by the COPs, but not replaced. With world leaders coming together at COP30 to decide the future of the planet, a more inclusive decision-making system is needed.

Can we do democracy differently?
Peter Emerson proposes an alternative in his latest piece for The Ecologist: Voting by Consensus.
Explore how consensus-based systems could enhance inclusive decision-making.
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📢 CRS 2025 Registration Deadline Extended!
Missed registering over the Easter break? Good news — the deadline to register for the Conflict Research Society 2025 Conference has been extended to 30 April!

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