James Worrall

Enjoyed delivering this morning’s session on Lit Reviews and Theoretical Frameworks in journal articles with @jamesworrall.bsky.social in @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social contribution to the “International Writing Workshop Mindanao," supporting emerging scholars from Mindanao:

Civil Wars ISA Roundtable 2025 Civil War and Intrastate Conflict: Reimagining a Field of Study Published in Civil Wars (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2025)

Rounding off a busy #CRS2025 @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social also held its second Roundtable at CRS with some great discussions about epistemology and methodology, thanks to the very engaged audience and panelists. Check out the write up of our ISA Roundtable here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#CRS2025 also saw the launch of our latest @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social Special Issue on the Legacies of Rebel and Paramilitary Governance.
Check out the SI here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fciv20/c... with @nielsterpstra.bsky.social

A great #CRS2025 at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Here are some photos from our @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social annual CRS drinks reception. It was great to catch up with friends old and new!

Attending the Conflict Research Society @thecrs.bsky.social conference in Canterbury this week? Come along to our drinks reception tomorrow (see conference programme for details)! Interested in pitching work to us? Get in touch with @jamesworrall.bsky.social to fix a coffee meeting!

Is there a “field” of civil wars research? How is the field evolving, and what challenges is it likely to face in future years? We discussed these questions and more in a fascinating roundtable discussion at @isanet.bsky.social in March, written up here:
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Pleased to see the second article from our Gerda Henkel Stiftung funded research project on counterinsurgency doctrine published online, plenty more to come. I’ll let @alexwaterman.bsky.social explain this one in his detailed thread!

Welcome to Bsky Luiza!

Dissenting from the Inevitable? Understanding Omani Approaches to Israel and the Abraham Accords In the months following the signature of the Abraham Accords in September 2020 there was considerable speculation about which countries would be next to join, Oman was a frequent subject of this sp...

My new article got a bit lost in the excitement of #ISA2025 this week, such that I only noticed when trying to get through my inbox yesterday!

Anyway, if you’re interested in #Oman #Israel the #AbrahamAccords or #SmallStates diplomacy, check it out:

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Thank you to our stellar roundtable panel for a fascinating discussion on the present and future of the field of civil wars research today! Lots of ideas and food for thought for both journal and field more broadly #ISA2025

Setting up the @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social drinks reception, starting in half an hour @isanet.bsky.social #ISA2025

Great start to the day in our workshop on Rebel Financing and Rebels’ Use of Economic Instruments for Rebel Governance! @ilyssa.bsky.social @jamesworrall.bsky.social @alexwaterman.bsky.social

Thankfully my Wednesday is looking quieter so if you fancy catching up, then I would love to see you!

Then immediately after we’re reprising our roundtable on the important role of book reviewing. Civil Wars is doing a lot in this area thanks to our fantastic reviews team, neither of whom can make it to Chicago so looking forward to showcasing their work!

Join us bright and early on Tuesday for the really exciting panel I organised on #rebelgovernance where I’m also presenting a piece that (finally) builds on my 2017 article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Monday sees Mona and I testing a paper that builds on our 2023 article: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...

Followed by our exciting @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social roundtable on Sunday, with all of these cool people!

I’ve got a bit of a packed #ISA2025 ahead! (Also have free wifi on an eight hour flight, so a mini thread). Starting with a workshop all day on Saturday…

Civil Wars is at #ISA2025 @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social do join us!

🧩Workshop on Rebel Finance and the Financialisation of Rebel Governance, Saturday @ 8am

🪁Roundtable on Reimagining the Field, Sunday @ 1.45pm

🥂Drinks Reception, Sunday @ 7.45pm

Feel free to DM or email us to discuss projects!

Civil Wars Volume 26, Issue 4 of Civil Wars

To round out another busy year the final issue of Civil Wars in this volume (26,4) is now available. Check out our Editorial Introduction for a sneak peek at some of the exciting things we have planned for 2025!
Happy New Year all!
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Violence against health care in Syria: patterns, meanings, implications Violence against health care has been a defining feature of the Syrian conflict. Over the course of the conflict, Physicians for Human Rights has documented and corroborated nearly 600 attacks on ...

As well as the work of many Syrians who have documented the many, many crimes of the regime e.g. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... / www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... / www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... / www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... / onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... الشعب يريد

Syrian Gulag Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society PrizeAn estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising…

the free and fair trials that were denied to their many victims as a symbol of that better future and that the world can help the Syrian people build a state that cares for its citizens and protects them from harm. While you’re here do check out this important book www.bloomsbury.com/uk/syrian-gu...

I had hoped that better days would come for Syria, this article was born of my belief that eventually this would happen, there’s still a long way to go but now there is the likelihood that prosecutions can happen within Syria and in international courts. Let us hope that the perpetrators receive/

Trying to write all three of these pieces as the pandemic hit was harrowing and I may never finish the other two but I’m glad one is done and I hope it has some utility in both spreading awareness and in helping in some small way to hold the many thousands of perpetrators of these crimes to account/

of a trilogy of articles which documented the use of torture by the Asad regime during the #SyrianCivilWar with the second article focusing on torture on the frontlines and the third a deeper dive into the use of torture as a control mechanism when coupled with other parts of the bureaucracy./

the patterns and evolution of torture practices to understand the systems and logics behind it. This in turn could help prosecutors place individual crimes within a wider frame of systematised #warcrimes and #crimesagainsthumanity at some point in the future. This article was supposed to be part/

I began to research torture in Syria during the regime’s counterinsurgency campaign a decade ago. This article is part of that project. I knew that there were ongoing attempts to collect the testimonies of the victims/survivors of these horrific abuses but also knew there was value in documenting/

Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices While the administrations of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad employed torture regularly as a tool of authoritarian governance, this usage changed dramatically in nature as the revolution moved from prote...

With the scenes of liberation of prisoners in #Syria today and the fall of the #Asad regime, despite the uncertainty, let us hope that there can now be at least some measure of justice for the tens of thousands of victims of #torture at the hands of the #regime 🧵

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