Aly Verjee

In #Ukraine before 2022, the Special Monitoring Mission used UAVs, cameras, and satellites to monitor
prohibited activities by conflict parties. In this new @survstudiesnet.bsky.social article,
I show how those forms of technology may have led to new violence. doi.org/10.24908/ss....

Three police officers standing in front of Gaza solidarity encampment tents at Columbia University. (Photo credit: Wm3214 via Wikimedia Commons.)

Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess.

Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Don't forget to register for our annual symposium! See you at SOAS on 20 September!

Save the date for the SSSUK annual symposium @soasuni.bsky.social on September 20! This year's theme is "peace and resilience". Registration opens soon!

The next issue of #Sudan Studies is coming soon!

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THE STRUGGLE FOR SOUTH SUDAN The Autobiography of Gordon Muortat Mayen Buy THE STRUGGLE FOR SOUTH SUDAN The Autobiography of Gordon Muortat Mayen by Verjee, Aly (ISBN: 9781763683907) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

With many thanks to Africa World Books, the edited autobiography of #SouthSudan liberation hero Gordon Muortat, is now on sale!
www.amazon.co.uk/STRUGGLE-SOU...

Health care without medicine: the impact of war on Sudan’s pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply - Conflict and Health Background Armed conflict in Sudan since April 2023 has led to the widespread disruption of health care services, the destruction of public and private health care infrastructure nationwide, and the t...

War's impact on Sudan's health system is far reaching and systemic. This article by Thouiba Hashim Galad, Ruoh-Yeng Chang and Aly Verjee looks at the consequences for drug manufacturing and supply - an aspect usually overlooked in times of conflict
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State Compliance and the Track Record of International Security Institutions: Evidence from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime Abstract. Why do states choose to comply with international security institutions, and what factors drive changes in compliance behavior over time? This ar

State Compliance and the Track Record of International Security Institutions: Evidence from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

How to monitor a new ceasefire in Ukraine Aly Verjee and Valerie Sticher argue that an international monitoring mission could bolster a ceasefire. But any new ceasefire faces serious challenges, and will hold only if all parties heed the expe...

🤝 An international monitoring mission, argue @averjee.bsky.social and Valerie Sticher, could bolster a #ceasefire in Ukraine.
🏭 But any new ceasefire faces serious challenges, and will hold only if all parties heed the experience of past monitoring efforts in eastern Ukraine
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Today I had to explain to my students that they can no longer access the USIP website for their human security case study project because it is still blocking all traffic. Decades of research and progress, my brilliant colleagues’ work, my work, all in the name of peace and security is just…gone.

🚨 #EISS Board member and Associate Professor at Leiden University @nicoblar.bsky.social published a new article in the Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs! 📚Read the paper to explore India’s evolving role in the Middle East amid the 🇺🇸-🇨🇳rivalry!

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Still cannot believe it: the United Nations Security Council Resolution Authors (UNSCRA) dataset is out in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social 🥳



Read here why the data is important and use it widely for your research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Faulty Prescription? Critiquing Joint Security Units after Peace Agreements in Sudan, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic This article critiques the prescription of joint security units called for by civil war peace agreements as a means to integrate armed forces previously in conflict. Drawing on cases from Sudan, So...

doi.org/10.1080/1939...

Asymmetric electoral authoritarianism? The case of the 2021 elections in Ethiopia Ethiopia’s 2021 elections have been overshadowed by the brutal civil war that has raged since November 2020. The elections may not have been competitive but they reveal important dynamics about ins...

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Do Eyes in the Sky Ensure Peace on the Ground? The Uncertain Contributions of Remote Sensing to Ceasefire Compliance Abstract. In many conflicts, international ceasefire monitors are deployed to mitigate future violence. Increasingly, such monitors use satellite imagery,

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Embracing Universality: Toward the Future of United Nations Development Work Abstract. United Nations (UN) development work has long followed the binary logic of “developed” countries providing funding so that UN entities support “d

Online first at ISP: "Embracing Universality: Toward the Future of United Nations Development Work" from Max-Otto Baumann and Sebastian Haug. academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...

Routine but Consequential: How Ceasefire Monitors’ Reporting Constructs Opportunities for (Non)Compliance by Conflict Opponents Third party ceasefire monitors routinely gather and report information on conflict events. Although ceasefire monitoring is a common conflict response intervention generally correlated with ceasefi...

doi.org/10.1080/1353...

Boko Haram, School Abductions, and Security Discourse in Nigeria Published in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2021)

doi.org/10.1080/1040...

Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace and Security Architecture Published in African Security Review (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2022)

doi.org/10.1080/1024...