VIP Workshop

(Minor clarification, the meeting date is Wednesday 10/1)

Watch this space for further details about this and future sessions, or check our website: vip-workshop.github.io

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Our VIP format involves reading the papers in advance and focusing workshop time on discussion. See our website to read the paper or follow this link: drive.google.com/file/d/1zR-5...

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The Fall 2025 #VIPWorkshop series starts tomorrow (10/1 @ 11am EST)! Join us virtually to discuss a paper by Juan Carlos Campos on police reform as an instrument of criminal protection (w/discussant @juangelvezf.bsky.social).

Meeting link here: asu.zoom.us/j/88283976606

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VIP Presenter Interest Form - Fall 2025 Please use this form to submit your project (paper or research design) for potential inclusion in the Fall 2025 sessions of the Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) Workshop. The workshops will be h...

There’s still time to apply to the @vipworkshop.bsky.social’s fall series! Send your abstracts here: forms.gle/gN7yUQKBudiK...

We welcome work from scholars at all career stages, but particularly encourage submissions from junior or early-career scholars. We are a feedback-oriented workshop---attendees read papers in advance and come prepared with comments.

Visit our website to learn more: vip-workshop.github.io

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The Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) Workshop series is a virtual and international forum for scholars of conflict, protest, crime, peace, and related topics. We aim to provide feedback on research-in-progress to scholars from political science and related disciplines across subfields.

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VIP Presenter Interest Form - Fall 2025 Please use this form to submit your project (paper or research design) for potential inclusion in the Fall 2025 sessions of the Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) Workshop. The workshops will be h...

VIP friends and colleagues! We are pleased to announce our call for submissions for fall 2025. Submit abstracts here by August 29th: forms.gle/gN7yUQKBudiK...

Workshops in fall 2025 are on the following Wednesdays: 10/1/25; 11/5/25; 12/3/25. We will meet at 8am PST/11am EST/4pm GMT.

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Register to attend via the Zoom link here: georgetown.zoom.us/j/94920663115

And see our website to download the papers:
vip-workshop.github.io

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The second paper is a coauthored project by Jamie Shenk and Shauna Gillooly @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social on corporate-state security contracts with discussant Clara Voyvodic (@cvoyvodic.bsky.social). (2/3)

The final meeting of the spring 2025 #VIPWorkshop series happens next week (4/24 @ 11am EST)! Daniel Rio Tinto (@driotinto.bsky.social) and coauthors will present a paper on criminal actors and welfare projects, with Lucia Tiscornia (@tiscornia21.bsky.social) as discussant. (1/3)

VIP Peace Science Workshop Interest Form Please use this form to submit your project (paper or research design) for potential inclusion in the Violence Instability and Peace (VIP) pre-conference workshop at the Peace Science Society's 2025 A...

@vipworkshop.bsky.social has extended the deadline to apply for our Peace Science pre-conference workshop in November! Apply here by 4/16: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Find and download the papers and learn other details about VIP at our website: vip-workshop.github.io

And don't forget to submit your abstract for our peace science pre-workshop proposal here: forms.gle/dU3Cdn1gLQKA...

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And, Sobia Paracha will present a paper on nationalism in territorial disputes (discussant Andi Zhou).

Attend via the Zoom meeting here: umd.zoom.us/j/5769616090...

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The second meeting of the spring 2025 #VIPWorkshop series happens next week (3/27 @ 11am EST)! Leonor Oliveira Toscano (@leoatoscano.bsky.social) will present a paper on peace infrastructure in Kenya (w/discussant Blair Welsh @blairwelsh.bsky.social).

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VIP Peace Science Workshop Interest Form Please use this form to submit your project (paper or research design) for potential inclusion in the Violence Instability and Peace (VIP) pre-conference workshop at the Peace Science Society's 2025 A...

VIP is assembling a pre-workshop proposal for the 2025 Peace Science conference at UCF on November 13th. If you — VIP presenters, discussants, or attendees — would be interested in presenting at the workshop, please sign up at the link. Deadline is Tuesday, March 25th.

forms.gle/dU3Cdn1gLQKA...

Happening tomorrow (2/20)!

@mpbroache.bsky.social will be discussing Tosin Salau's paper on civilian cooperation with rebels, and @kbclarke.bsky.social will be discussing Betul Ozturan's paper on political violence in Turkey.

See quoted post for details on how to sign up and participate!

Watch this space for further details about this and future sessions, or check our website: vip-workshop.github.io

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Tosin's paper, titled "Citizens’ Unrest: Understanding Civilian Cooperation with Militant Groups Amid Subsidy Reductions" can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ASqQ...

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Our VIP format involves reading the papers in advance and focusing workshop time on discussion.

Betul's paper, titled "Mapping Political Violence in Turkey:
When Terrorism and Civil War Converge", can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/15uLp...

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The spring 2025 #VIPWorkshop series starts next week (2/20 @ 11am EST)! Join us virtually to discuss papers by Tosin Salau on civilian cooperation with militant groups, & Betul Ozturan (@betulozturan.bsky.social) on political violence in Turkey.

Register at: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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