Aila Matanock

Brief 46: Measuring Social Support During Counterinsurgency in Colombia – EGAP EGAP researcher: Aila Matanock

For today's spotlight on EGAPers researching #conflict, read about @matanock.bsky.social work with Miguel Garcia-Sanchez to measure social support during counterinsurgency in Colombia.

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Are you a researcher or practitioners focused on governance, politics, & institutions displaced by recent policy shifts? EGAP is providing a platform to continue vital conversations and evidence-sharing!

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A fantastic panel kicking off the Empirical Studies of Conflict meeting in Taipei thanks to the organizing work of @renardsexton.bsky.social and NTU! Chia-yi Lee @dotanhaim.bsky.social @emilyrussell.bsky.social

New Threats, Ad-hoc Networks, and Strategic Flexibility: Security Insights from Southeast Asia On March 26 and 27, 2025, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Center for Asia Globalization (CAG) hosted the “Workshop on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order: Southeast...

🌏 Insights from CEGA’s latest blog post show how Southeast Asian countries are responding to geopolitical competition, security threats, and rising power rivalries.

🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/SEAsiaInsights

Research Assistant Position with Malik and Marble Prof. Mashail Malik (Harvard) and Dr. William Marble (Stanford) are searching for a part-time research assistant (RA) primarily for a project on the political integration of immigrants in the United S...

Please circulate!
@wpmarble
and I are looking for a part-time RA to help with various data tasks. This is a remote-work position that is ideal for recent graduates who are considering applying for a social science PhD. Apply here: forms.gle/EN3JLUiNm8m4...

Please Share: Do you know talented young people considering doing a PhD? the @snfagora.bsky.social at @JHU will welcome at least two pre-doctoral fellows for AY25-27.

snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-ac...

#gendersky #econsky #polisky #academicsky #predoc #fellow

Pacific for Whom? Order Contestation in the Pacific Region On February 24, 2025, CEGA hosted the Pacific Conference on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order at the East-West Center and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In this post, CEGA’s...

#NewCEGABlog: Pacific for Whom?

CEGA recently convened leading security experts from the Pacific region to explore how geopolitical competition interacts with foreign aid and security arrangements.

Learn more here:
go.cega.org/blogPacificForWhom

Our call for the 2025 Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Annual Meeting on Geostrategic Opportunity and Upheaval on October 9-10 is up! Submissions due on June 16. W/ Yuri Zhukov @laiabalcells.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social @renardsexton.bsky.social More here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Can't wait to head down to UCSB in a couple of weeks to help launch @wnomikos.bsky.social's fantastic book!

2025 Africa Evidence Summit CEGA and NIERA will co-host the 13th annual Africa Evidence Summit on June 23-24, 2025.

Reminder that the @cega-uc.bsky.social #AES2025 deadline for speakers and posters is tomorrow - more information here: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-a...

HFG Emerging Scholars - HFG The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.

Are you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb.

Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...

#conflictsky #polisky @austinlw.bsky.social & @renardsexton.bsky.social

For early-career conflict researchers: the ESOC Mentorship Program is open! It provides fellows working on conflict with individual mentors, campus engagement with them, and professional development, including attending an ESOC meeting. More details here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar Are social media users in developing and conflict-affected countries more intolerant than non-users? As platforms like Facebook become increasingly viewed as drivers of polarization and violence, t...

Excited to share my new article (w/ Leo Arriola & @matanock.bsky.social) published in
@polcommjournal.bsky.social

Heard the claim that #Facebook caused a genocide by fanning the flames of hate in #Myanmar? The reality may be more complicated…

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A brief 🧵 1/15

EGAP Paris meeting attendees gather for a group photo

Curious what happens at an EGAP meeting? Check out this recap of our plenary in Paris this past October. Many thanks to @vinarceneaux.bsky.social & CEVIPOF for hosting & to all who joined for a productive and insightful two days! egap.org/resource/egap-plenary-meeting-in-review-paris-october-2024/

My small contribution to helping the electoral violence researchers to reconnect and encouraging everyone else interested in the topic to follow them.

Likely to have missed some (others might still join), so comment/DM to be included.

go.bsky.app/5ULK58P

CRS | Cedric Smith Prize The CRS welcomes submissions for the Cedric Smith Prize 2019 which is a peace research prize awarded for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a student

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025.

conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith...

Conflictsky

Thanks to RIO and the special issue participants and editors, Duncan Snidal, Thomas Hale, Emily Jones, Claas Mertens, and Karolina Milewicz!

Empowering to constrain: Procedural checks in international organizations - The Review of International Organizations Why would weak states accept rules which authorize strong states to take coercive action against them? I argue that, in some cases, this is a way of creating constraints over the exercise power in the...

The article is part of a special issue in the Review of International Organizations (RIO) on the power of the “weak” and international organizations that features many cool pieces, including one by recent UC Berkeley PhD Katie Beall: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In Weapons of the Weak State, we argue that the type of statebuilding contracts that are currently used provide tools that allow post-conflict states to influence what IO mandates contain, where they intervene, whom they hire, and when they exit - providing true power.

Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding - The Review of International Organizations International Organizations (IOs), such as the United Nations (U.N.), engage in statebuilding in a range of post-conflict states. Statebuilding scholarship largely assumes that IOs, backed by their po...

So happy to finally have "Weapons of the Weak State: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding" with
@susannacampbell.bsky.social in print (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Legislators are key actors in the implementation of peace agreements. Yet they can be misinformed about citizens’ attitudes toward the provisions in these settlements and their own policy positions may not be responsive to information about the true level of support among their constituents."

Many thanks to #EGAP for briefing our Journal of Conflict Resolution article with Miguel Garcia Sanchez and Natalia Garbiras Diaz about the #Colombia peace process (with applications to other peace processes currently in the works): egap.org/resource/wha...

Hoping to get some great papers - for my own curiosity especially on #Mexico #policing - for the @ESoConflict Annual Meeting (Oct 17-19, 2024 at UCLA). Please apply by June 14th! esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #conflictsky #polisky

Thanks so much to @UCIGCC and Neil Narang/UCSB and the UC IR faculty in attendance for such a great day - got wonderful feedback and learned about some fantastic projects!

Thrilled and still quite shocked to receive the 2024 Karl Deutsch Award from ISA last week at the annual meeting. I am lucky to have the most amazing community who makes this work possible – and fun! Many thanks to you and the selection committee. www.isanet.org/News/ID/6384... #conflictsky #polisky

Is #Facebook *the* breeding ground for intolerance? My new Political Communication piece w/ Oren Samet & Leo Arriola challenges assumptions, shows that FB users in #Myanmar are more tolerant. Social media can be a bad tool but more nuance is needed: doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #conflictsky

From the ESOC Call for Papers for 2024 Annual Meeting: This year's theme is “Hate and Conflict." The submission deadline for full working papers is June 14th, and the meeting will be on October 17-19 at UCLA. See link for more details: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #Polisky #ConflictSky

Great over view of trends in/ rise of conflict scholarship on Colombia in recent years

Or virtual to me, I should say - I think both are hybrid so could be in-person if you are interested in Latin America and located in DC or NYC!