Laura Adams

Bridging academia and international development. Central Asianist. Poking authoritarianism in the eye since 1988. She/her.

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

Supporting global learning for civil society and media organizations. My #CSMSTAND work @PactWorld brings me great joy and thank you @AKF_Global for turning it into a short, inspiring video: https://t.co/8dMUx3kChi

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

@dickobrema @CisseGaly @MoumouniSoumano

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

Grant for Malian and international researchers; qualitative applied research on an information integrity intervention. Deadline for applications: May 6. Full details: https://t.co/7s5c0BXt9D @

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

With journalists jailed and a prevailing feeling that anyone could be targeted next, suffocating dread has spread across civil society in Kyrgyzstan.

Let Kyrgyz journalists know that they aren't alone.

Share a video in support of press freedom in Kyrgyzstan using #FreeKyrgyz11

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

Hoping to talk to @Lassaneo or other similar scholars about an applied research opportunity. DM email/Signal info if interested: https://t.co/XFz1IDsFQZ

[Florencia Guerzovich @guerzovich.bsky.social @guerzovich]

been working w/other @PactWorld teams to id how they do social accountability
I've learned abt concrete ways in which APEA supported politically savvier work in their local systems
Register 👇
@arochamenocal @lhpiron @DNJFollows Can't wait to connect dots in future convos!

[Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🌻🍉 @CreativeCorazon]

Oyan, Qazaqstan activists Darkhan Sharipov and Vlada Ermolcheva were arrested in Almaty today and will be shortly tried for their protests for fair and open elections a few months ago. This is old #Kazakhstan

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

Evidence on human rights interventions is a real challenge to wrangle! Congratulations @TKozakiewicz and team!

[Tomasz Kozakiewicz @TKozakiewicz]

Releasing the official package of knowledge products that map human rights evidence directed at rights holders, defenders and duty bearers: https://t.co/KlzGAQ1wpt Thanks to our advisors: @adrianIDRC @pearleliadis @Iradj10 @SoloEbobrah @AlghaibOla Chaumtoli Pedro Lisa @3ieNews

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

@aewooden I’m so sorry to hear about all you have been through! No one should have to live like this, with neither help nor understanding from the “experts.”

[Pact @PactWorld]

#Misinformation and distrust in independent media and #civilsociety are key challenges to #democracy. That's why Pact, @IREXintl and @USAID, through the CSM-STAND project, are committed to treating information disorders. Read more > https://t.co/EhzEL2lwCO @USAIDDRG

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

I welcome links to other places where these concerns are addressed.

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

We can critically examine the facts behind a story without saying that the story shouldn’t be told. Respectable critics of “wokeness” that I have read don’t see that their defense of universalism and liberty is also engaging in agenda setting that reproduces existing inequities.

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

I see a similar lack of reflection on the power of agenda setting in the debates about what counts as evidence. To what extent are our standards of rigor contributing to agenda setting of what stories can and should be told?

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

Today, on #InternationalWomensDay, I call to remember & honor the brave women of Belarus who stood up against tyranny. Masha, Katsiaryna, Marfa, Danuta & many more - there are almost 200 female political prisoners in Belarus right now. Every one of them deserves freedom. #IWD2023

[Denise Baer @PoliticsDrB]

Alysson Akiko Oakley @PactWorld shares how #eval #democracy support evolved from Cowboys to "MEL Tax" tech to Messy Middle to the Compliance Crew & new #DRG systems approaches to #evaluation at @aeaweb NDE issue launch @AeaDrg today

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

@AltAcChats I slogged away in academia for 17 years and now happily use my social science background at @PactWorld to further evidence and learning in international development programs.

[Hanna Liubakova @HannaLiubakova]

#Belarus In 2022, at least 6,380 people were detained for political reasons. That's 17 people a day. The number might be higher as the regime jailed or pushed out of the country many human rights defenders from @viasna96. People are detained for opposing Lukashenka and the war.

[Memorial in English @EnMemorial]

Yesterday the trial of Nobel laureate and Viasna @viasna96 leader Ales Bialitski, his deputy Valiantin Stefanovich and lawyer Uladzimir Labkovich started in Minsk. Today the trial continues.

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

@SyinatS @EurasiaUTsukuba @mextjapan I’m so, so happy for you! 🥹👏

[Laura Adams @lauristan]

@AltAcChats I want to continue my pattern of annually luring two social science Ph.Ds into international development jobs doing evaluation/learning. 😈