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Reader in Politics & International Relations. Editor of Journal of Pacifism & Nonviolence (@jpacnv.bsky.social). Consumer/sharer of politics. Foreigner everywhere. Views my own.

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📰Caroline Kennedy-Pipe argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility:
doi.org/10.1163/2772...

13.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

3/ Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.

06.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2/ Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency.

06.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Short thread summary: 1/ Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.

06.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

06.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

📢Call for Papers for free #Pacifism & #Nonviolence workshop (to be held in April 2026). Deadline 5 Nov. Full info in PDF in CfP tab here: brill.com/view/journal.... Please circulate widely.

03.10.2025 10:24 — 👍 3    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Not your typical research seminar...

Earlier this week, Orit Shimoni (@oritshimoni.bsky.social) and Dan Bern discussed the potential for music and art to foster cross-cultural solidarity with the Pacifism and Nonviolence Research Group, complete with live performances.

02.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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📅Today, international day of #nonviolence, why not check out our pages: brill.com/view/journal...? You'll find work on economics, Islam, historiography, unarmed civilian protection, Gandhi, King, BLM, sabotage, AWS, gender, structural & police violence, etc. Follow us for more!

02.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Today = 7th🎂of 2nd vol of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social incl chaps on #YiddishRadicalism, #ByzantineTheology, #Spanishanarchistfilms, #FirstPeter, #Nietzsche & #Benjamin, #ChristianNonviolence, #Blake & #Occult

www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/books/e/10.1...

26.09.2025 13:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📢JPN 3:2 now out. SI on #Economics of Politics & Nonviolence guest edited by Christopher Coyne. Includes articles on practical #pacifism, #nonviolent action, polycentric #peace, female property rights, & 1849 Paris Peace Congress. brill.com/view/journal...

24.09.2025 14:14 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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📰 @jasonleebyas.bsky.social brings economic insights to @chenoweth.bsky.social & @mariajstephan.bsky.social to argue violent resistance common despite nonV more effective due to costliness of participation in violence, which makes its preparation a signal 4 mvmt’s seriousness doi.org/10.1163/2772...

22.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🗣️ Looking fwd to presenting on #pacifist rejoinders to #Hitler question #CRS2025 conference

19.09.2025 12:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
what is Christian Anarchism ? with dr. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
YouTube video by ماري يوسف Mary Youssef what is Christian Anarchism ? with dr. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

🎙A few days ago I was interviewed Mary Youssef about hashtag#Christian hashtag#anarchism (interview proper starts from 3:35 after some technical difficulties :)) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I00K...

18.09.2025 10:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings Find a course at one of the top universities in the country

It's another successful year for IRPH in the Guardian University Guide. Loughborough lands sixth for International Relations, ninth for Politics, and eleventh for History.

16.09.2025 18:30 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Une critique de l’orthodoxie guerrière : Réflexions pacifistes sur la guerre en Ukraine Quand la Russie a lancé son invasion à grande échelle de l’Ukraine en février 2022, l’idée largement répandue à travers l’Occident était qu’il y avait un

📰Ravi d'annoncer la parution d' "Une critique de l’orthodoxie guerrière : Réflexions #pacifistes sur la guerre en #Ukraine" (version traduite et un peu abrégée de doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... ): www.pressenza.com/fr/2025/09/u...

15.09.2025 09:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📰Andrew Fitz-Gibbon examines ethical foundations of #violence & #nonviolence through lens of Pragmatic Ethical Principlism & grounded in cross-cultural ethical traditions, arguing nonviolence is ethically superior by systematically applying 7 core ethical principles

12.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We are extremely proud to share that Dr Joe Davidson, Vice-Chancellor's Independent Research Fellow here in IRPH, has won the @biapt.bsky.social Early Career Prize for his groundbreaking research and his contributions to the discipline of political theory.

Great job, Joe; well deserved!

10.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Tolstoy’s Christian Anarcho-Pacifism: An Exposition | Stockholm University Press In the last thirty years of his life, Leo Tolstoy wrote many books, essays and pamphlets expounding his maturing views on violence, the state, the church, and how to improve the human condition. Since...

Hardback expensive, paperback and ebook cheaper, but also shorter chapter-length summary #free ( #openaccess) & available here:
www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/chapter...

09.09.2025 10:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Core chapters explore T’s #pacifism, #anarchism,
#anticlericalism, #asceticism & #nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.

09.09.2025 10:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Today is #Tolstoy's birthday. His #politicalthought is radical, #anarcho-#pacifist & #iconoclastic. Here's my book on it: sites.google.com/site/christo....

09.09.2025 10:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Interview de 16mins sur mon intervention à l' #UEMSS, à partir de 1h23min42secs sur l'émission Achaïra du 1er septembre): www.lacledesondes.fr/nos-emissions

02.09.2025 14:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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La Défense Civile Non-Violente face à la militarisation La turbo-militarisation effrénée de l’Europe est alimentée en partie par une hypothèse qu’il est temps de remettre en question. Cette hypothèse est très

📰Un court commentaire sur la turbo- #militarisation de l'Europe et sur la Défense Civile Non-Violente ( #DCNV):
pressenza.com/fr/2025/08/l.... Publication par @pressenza.bsky.social de mon propos a #UEMSS2025

29.08.2025 09:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🗣️ Looking fwd to presenting #AnarchoPacifist Critique of the European Project at #EISAPEC25 in 12mins

28.08.2025 11:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today = 1st 🎂 of co-authored JPN forum on #Malm's How To Blow Up a Pipeline, complicating his call for #sabotage in light of scholarship on #pacifism & #nonviolence doi.org/10.1163/2772...

28.08.2025 11:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🗣️ Looking fwd to taking part in #EISAPEC25 roundtable on Reimagining #Pacifism/#nonviolence in an Age of Resurgent Neoimperialism in 15mins with Mikael Baaz, Joana Ricarte, Kristoffer Liden, Benoît Pelopidas, Victoria Basham & Noga Glucksam

27.08.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🗣️ Ravi d'avoir réflechi avec autres intervenant.e.s et militant.e.s #UEMSS2025 sur la question des résistances face à la #militarisation de nos sociétés et aux économies de #guerre hier après-midi: www.uemss.org/spip.php?pag...

26.08.2025 05:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today = 4th🎂of Greek translation of "A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence" as "Μια #Χριστιανική #Αναρχική Κριτική της #Βίας. Από το Γύρισμα και της Άλλης Παρειάς στην Απόρριψη του Κράτους": geniusloci2017.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/a...

21.08.2025 19:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📰Christopher Coyne & Abigail R. Hall Blanco develop an #economic case for practice pacifism, thus connecting applying economic scholarship on political institutions & government failure to pacifism

24.06.2025 08:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Includes 1/ essay from me on #Tolstoy’s #politicalthought, 2/ co-authored intro discussing ‘ #religiousness ’ of political #ideologies such as #anarchism

11.06.2025 10:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today is 5th-year🎂 of 3rd volume of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social: stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e... including essays on #AbrahamHeyn, #HerbertRead, #LeoTolstoy, #DanielGuérin, #MartinBuber, #mysticism & #spiritualanarchism

11.06.2025 10:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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