Harout Akdedian

Program Analyst, Oregon Department of Justice | Focus: civil rights, extremism, state-society relations | Views are my own

[Harout Akdedian @HAkdedian]

For Assad: the book explains how the Assad rule clientalized itself for sponsorship. When patrons could no longer afford it or found utility for it, Assad found himself abandoned. The question remains whether Russia would hand him over for accountability and for what return.

[Harout Akdedian @HAkdedian]

The chapters on state capture, institutions of violence, sectarianization, and state-society / state-religion relations from an institutional lens are highly relevant for future trajectories and I dare to say largely on point!

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You were neither guilty until proven innocent, nor innocent until guilty If you found yourself in the grasp of Assad’s security apparatus. You were a number to be processed through the bureaucracy of torture.

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https://t.co/n3AtqSUvvQ

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How do civilians self-organize and resist against mass violence, and what are the limits of communal resilience? I look forward to sharing lessons from the war in Syria @Portland_state on Friday, April 19: https://t.co/2sjL4fk7MV @MESCatPDX

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Join me @ceu on the 7th of March for a conversation on social marginalisation, resiliency and conflict transformation in Syria.

Registration: https://t.co/sPKfLufL5u

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This will be a fascinating conversation this Wednesday 6th of March held @BKFVienna with @TarekMitri, @GhassanSalame and Aziz Al-Azmeh discussing civil/proxy wars in the region, their international extensions and state-society relations

https://t.co/nABnlQsRGm

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A must read piece on the apocalypse of the humaniyies in the US right now

https://t.co/j2yxa3AAO2

[Harout Akdedian @HAkdedian]

@Karam__Shaar Thank you Karam, it’s in the same link I posted. If you DM me a good mailing address, I can send you one of my hard covers. Always welcome your feedback and perspective - that goes without saying of course but just in case 🙂

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Delighted to receive my copy of Spoils of War in the Arab East. This marks the conclusion of a very long research journey published in three instalments. I look forward to sharing and presenting this content over the coming months

https://t.co/V2P3BlflfB

[Harout Akdedian @HAkdedian]

9- Trauma-informed response mechanisms would take us in the opposite direction.

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My two cents about the ramifications of the #IsraelHamasWar on domestic #extremism in the #US and beyond. Here are 9 points the article in @lawfare expands on 🧵

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.@HAkdedian analyzes the rise in anti-Jewish and anti-Arab/Muslim incidents since Oct. 7, the U.S.-specific challenges in combating the rise in extremism, and what can be done. https://t.co/Ta8iY78bQa

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8- The spillover effect of the war in its polarizing tendencies extends mutual dehumanization beyond individuals and groups directly impacted by the conflict in the Middle East and further entrenches mutually exclusive principled oppositions.