Clara Voyvodic

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New article alert with Dr Thia Sagherian-Dickey @coco-journal.bsky.social! We examine how children are raised in protracted conflict, how it offers civilians agency in transmitting protective strategies, and pathways (and pitfalls) to conflict transformation.

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The Cost of Doing Business - Civil War Paths Dr Clara Voyvodic is Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford, focusing on the intersections of armed conflict, development, and local order

Excited to share my blogpost for @civilwarpaths.bsky.social Fellowship on the complex entanglements between business, conflict, and human rights! I discuss how corporations integrate the 'cost' of conflict into their ventures, despite dangerous consequences for civilians on the ground.

Our brilliant Peace Studies students came from all over the world to spend a very thought-provoking week speaking with experts and peacebuilders working across Northern Ireland. Thank you to the Quakers Peace Studies Trust (QPST) for making our Annual Peace Studies Visit possible!

Gobierno pretende renovar contrato con minera que debe al Estado $119.000 millones en regalías La ANM pretende renovar el contrato de explotación de la mina El Roble, ubicada en el Carmen de Atrato (Chocó), por 30 años. Esta mina, propiedad de la canadiense Ático Mining (90%) y de la familia de...

🚨 La Agencia Nacional de Minería (ANM) pretende renovar por 30 años la explotación de la mina El Roble (Carmen de Atrato, Chocó). Los socios, Ático Mining y la familia del exgobernador Aníbal Gaviria, fueron condenados a pagar $119 mil millones por regalías no liquidadas.

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Yesterday, the department's Global Security Research Group held an informal workshop to discuss a number of fascinating research projects spanning rich archival work, deep ethnographies and quantitative modelling. Particularly great to see our PhD students showcasing the evolution of their projects!

Highland, Heartland and Hinterland Conflicts: Introducing a Typology of State-rebel Conflict in Northeast India The many “forgotten conflicts” of Northeast India remain poorly understood. Important works have highlighted deep nuances and historical variation in patterns of state-society relations across the ...

***New Open Access Publication!*** In this India Review article co-authored with Ben Holt, we develop a new typology capturing variation in state-rebel conflict across Northeast India
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Excited to share new research from one of our colleagues! Dr Clara Voyvodic @cvoyvodic.bsky.social has two papers out on armed groups and rebel authority in Colombia. Clara’s work explores the intersections of conflict, development, and non-state governance. www.bradford.ac.uk/staff/cvoyvo...

6/ What are your thoughts on the role of non-state actors in shaping the global economy? Let’s discuss! 🗣️⬇️

#Geoeconomics #Megaprojects #ArmedConflict #IllicitAuthority

5/ The key takeaway? Geoeconomic power isn’t just wielded by states & corporations—local illicit authorities can significantly influence global investments, challenging traditional power structures. ⚖️

4/ The research, based on extensive fieldwork, highlights how:

VNSAs regulate access to construction sites
Extortion payments can determine project continuation
States & corporations must engage with these actors to move forward 🚧🔄

3/ In conflict-affected territories, VNSAs like the FARC & Kachin Independence Army (KIA) don't just resist megaprojects—they negotiate, extort, & even facilitate them based on their strategic interests. 💡

2/ This study challenges state-centric narratives, showing how projects like the Hidroituango Dam (Colombia) & Myitsone Dam (Myanmar) were deeply influenced by VNSAs, reshaping both domestic & global geoeconomic goals. 🌎💰⚖️

1/ Megaprojects—massive infrastructure ventures—are often seen as symbols of state power and geoeconomic ambition. But what happens when they intersect with local illicit authorities in conflict zones? 🤔

Rescaling Geoeconomics: The Role of Local Illicit Authority in Global Megaprojects Abstracts. This article examines the influence of violent non-state actors (VNSAs) on the construction of large-scale infrastructure projects in conflict-a

🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨 with @annetteidler.bsky.social

How do violent non-state actors (VNSAs) shape the fate of massive infrastructure projects? Our new article in International Studies Quarterly reveals the hidden forces behind global megaprojects. 🧵👇

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Our research university leaders are totally failing us in the authoritarian moment. Not even trying to loudly & publicly defend the project of academia or the institutions. Just choosing a combination of “keep our heads down” & anticipatory compliance. Shamefully inadequate to the moment.

The Department of Peace Studies and International Development is now on BlueSky!

All comms were able to make demands and even take some action, but they remained constrained by lack of organisation as well as the capacity and ideology of the different armed groups. However, all communities related current expectations of order to the precedence set by previous FARC governance.

(PDF) Gone with the Rebels: Reshaping Local Orders in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia PDF | The 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP, and the demobilization of the latter, dismantled the governance... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

Kicking off 2025 with a new paper from the eternally-absent-from-social-media but wonderful coauthor Jose Gutierrez!

In this paper we explore how communities in rural Colombia used their experiences of rebel order to evaluate and renegotiate the entry of new armed groups.

1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

Negotiating ‘Hearts and Minds’: conflict, infrastructure, and community support in Colombia Research has shown that the counterinsurgent proposition of ‘winning Hearts and Minds’ is more complex than building a road. This paper examines how project workers in three infrastructure projects...

Funnily enough, I explored this idea at the local level in Colombia. Having two actors vying for people's goodwill can force them to be more accountable (rather than when its just one). So I imagine the premise could scale up all the way to superpowers.

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Inaugural post: I'm pleased to present my new article "The Fog of War" where I examine how conflict narratives, often used by elites, mislead or undermine efforts to identify developmental violence and suppression against civilians.