Conflict Management and Peace Science

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Finally, in this issue’s data feature, @dovlevin.bsky.social introduces PEIG 2.0, an expanded dataset on #ElectionIntervention. This adds 25.5% more years and 37.4% more cases, mapping interventions from 1946–2014.

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Fifth, Ronan Tse-min Fu, Weiwen Yin and Enze Han investigate casualty perceptions in #Taiwan, finding support for military action drops more when scenarios involve #Chinese #CivilianCasualties than Taiwanese #Military losses.

Fourth, David J Tier explores the link between #American civil-military relations and #Military outcomes, finding that healthy discourse aids mission success while poor relations risk failing political objectives.

Third, @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social and Karin Dyrstad explore how conflict-induced traumas shape support for #TruthCommissions. Using data from #Nepal, #Guatemala and #NorthernIreland, they find a conditional relationship between #Trauma and support for TCs.

Rainfall shocks and state repression: How rainfall shocks incentivize governments to commit human rights abuses - Benjamin J Appel, Nathaniel C Smith, 2025 We posit that rainfall shocks have an indirect effect on state repression through their impact on food production. Rainfall shocks are associated with reduced f...

Second, Benjamin J Appel and Nathaniel Smith show how #Rainfall shocks increase state #Repression by reducing #FoodProduction. Using causal mediation analysis and data from 1992 to 2015, they find this effect is strongest in #DevelopingCountries.

First, Latife Kınay-Kılıç, Ersel Aydınlı and @efetokdemir.bsky.social investigate how states respond to external support for rebel groups during civil wars, finding that strategic rivalry drives the most severe responses.

We’re back from Summer with CMPS Volume 42(5)! The September Issue includes five articles on #RebelGroups, #EnvironmentalSecurity, #PostConflictTrauma, #CivilMilitaryRelations and #ConflictAttitudes and one data feature on #ElectoralInterventions.

While this plot shows some ups and downs, the line of best fit suggests a general upward trend in transnationally co-authored papers. This reflects a growing international community and the value of diverse perspectives in our field. #AcademicPublishing #GlobalResearch

As part of our series on published articles at CMPS, this thread focuses on co-authored papers involving authors based in different countries. The data includes all co-authored papers from the last 12 volumes.

Find the whole issue below. We’ll be back with our next issue in September - until then, we hope everyone has a wonderful summer! #Peace #Research #PoliticalScience #IR #Conflict

Finally, Andrew Rosenberg & Nazli Avdan assess whether #Border walls stop transnational #Terrorism. Using network analysis of 63 extremist groups, they find walls can inhibit violence but effects vary by group, challenging walls as a catch-all solution.

Fourth, Tsukasa Watanabe & Andrew J Enterline examine when territorial claims lead to #War. Using data on 209 claims in Asia and Oceania, they find those tied to incursions, loss, or independence are the most likely to escalate hostilities.

Third, @sabinecarey.bsky.social‬, Christian Gläßel & @kpaula.bsky.social ask if media shapes #Postwar attitudes long-term. Studying anti-government broadcasts in #Nepal, they find those exposed were less optimistic about peace, police, and civic activism up to 3 years after the station shut down.

Second, @courtenaymonroe.bsky.social, Nathan W Monroe & Shengkuo Hu question how #UNGA votes reveal state preferences. They find procedural context matters, with committee amendment votes yielding clearer insights, especially for states away from the policy centre.

First, Pamp, Thurner, Binder & Mehltretter @tum.de‬ ask if more weapons in #Rebel hands escalate #CivilWar violence. Using data on 270 rebel groups, they find better-armed rebels only fight higher-intensity conflicts if they receive no external support.

CMPS Volume 42 Issue 4 is here. The July issue features five articles on rebel militarisation, UN voting preferences, the media’s impact on postwar attitudes, territorial claims and conflict escalation, and border walls and terrorism.

This not only reflects the importance of teamwork in advancing research, but also the potential for broader perspectives and methodologies. Stay tuned for our next update, which will examine a rising trend in transnationally co-authored papers.
#Diversity #Peace #Publishing

This plot shows that the number of co-authored articles is increasingly surpassing single-authored pieces. This trend highlights a growing academic community engaged in collaborative research.

In this thread, we’re looking at co-authorship trends at Conflict Management and Peace Science! Using data from the past 12 years of CMPS volumes, we’ve tracked the percentages of co-authored vs. single-authored manuscripts.

Follow this page for future updates as we shift focus from geographic diversity to other statistics related to published articles at CMPS. #Diversity #Peace #Publishing #ConflictStudies #InclusiveResearch

This trend points to broadening diversity in peace science and growing international interest in CMPS. Notably, this plot also reveals that for three of the last four volumes, at least half of the articles featured authors based outside of the United States.

As part of our series on submitted and published articles at CMPS, this thread highlights a steady rise in papers by non-US-based authors since 2013. This data is from CMPS's last 12 volumes, reflecting every author’s home institution when published.

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📌 New paper out in @conflictmanagement.bsky.social

➡️ Individuals exposed to severe and somatic forms of violence are more likely to favour political and negotiated solutions. Evidence for the "violence begets war-weariness" hypothesis!

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Check out the whole issue here, and stay tuned for our next issue in July! In the meantime, follow for more insights from our ongoing series on CMPS submission and acceptance data.

Measuring Chinese economic sanctions 1949–2020: Introducing the China TIES dataset - Jiakun Jack Zhang, Spencer Shanks, 2025 Research on China's use of economic sanctions has proliferated in recent decades, yet coverage of Chinese sanctions in existing sanctions datasets is both ...

Finally, in this issue’s data feature, Jiakun Jack Zhang & Spencer Shanks introduce the China TIES dataset, capturing 135 cases of #China as sender and 88 as target of economic #Sanctions from 1949-2020.

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Fifth, Harriet Goers, @laiabalcells.bsky.social and @kgcunnin.bsky.social show how internal competition drives self-rule movements to pursue #Referendums, often as a strategy to claim or maintain leadership.

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Fourth, Sam Bell and Risa Kitagawa ask whether #CivilSociety actors can secure protections for themselves during peace #Negotiations, finding that participation boosts the chance of securing post-conflict rights.

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Third, Sara Norrevik and Mehwish Sarwari examine how defence cooperation agreements (DCAs) shape military #Interventions in #CivilWars, finding that DCA partners are significantly more likely to support the same conflict actors.

Why gendered quantification trends are a problem: Post-traumatic growth arguments and the civil war malestream - Maren Duvendack, Ulrike G Theuerkauf, 2025 Feminist scholars have long debated quantification trends in the social sciences. Of particular concern has been the extent to which the prestige assigned to qu...

Second, Maren Duvendac and Ulrike Theuerkauf @developmentuea.bsky.social explore how quantification trends in civil war research reinforce #Gender biases, showing that quantitative studies are overwhelmingly male-authored and less attentive to gendered #Violence.