Gian Marco Longoni

Breaking news: PKK declares disbandment, ending four-decade armed insurgency against Turkey bianet.org/haber/pkk-de...

Today I went back to where I did my bluebook traineeship, the @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, a place I hold very dear. Congrats to the EEAS colleagues for a very well organised and engaging EU Open Day!

Today, the Coalition of the Willing convened.

We support the proposal for a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire.

It must be implemented without preconditions to pave the way for meaningful peace negotiations.

The ball is now in Russia’s court.

On 9 May, we celebrate the unbreakable values that unite us. In a divided world, Europe stands for peace and solidarity. 🇪🇺💙

This EuropeDay, let's honour our shared journey.

Let Syrians have the chance to access these documents & understand decades of despotic rule. Let a generation of Syrian scholars study these documents & make sense of how the regime survived. Let the Assad regime, like other dictatorships, be reduced to an object of historical research.

Whose side are you on? Balancing impartiality and proximity in the study of civil wars When conducting research and fieldwork on civil war, it is not only challenging to remain impartial or get physically and emotionally close to conflict participants, but it is especially difficult ...

My new article with Sarah Zukerman Daly was just published: "Whose Side Are You On? Balancing Impartiality and Proximity in the Study of Civil Wars" More details below, 50 free copies available here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HNVJR...

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

A map of Europe titled "Wildfires in Europe 2023," showing wildfire activity as coloured dots of varying sizes to represent the area burned. Larger dots indicate larger areas burned: purple for ≥5000 hectares, red for 1000–5000 hectares, pink for 500–1000 hectares, orange for 100–500 hectares, and yellow for ≤100 hectares. High concentrations of wildfires are visible in southern Europe, particularly in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, as well as parts of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region. Sparse activity is observed in northern Europe. The data is sourced from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).

2023 was one of the worst years for wildfires in the EU in over two decades.

🔴 500,000 hectares of natural lands affected,
🔴 The largest single fire in the EU since tracking began,
🔴 ‘Megafires’ are on the rise and fire season prolonged.

→ europa.eu/!KyvRhh

Introduce yourself with four albums

I’ve created @polviolencepapers.bsky.social to repost working papers on political violence. Since Bluesky doesn’t have a bookmark function yet, I thought we needed a dedicated space to store all those working papers often shared here.