Senior Advisor Conflict Transformation @Helvetas. Formerly @BerghofFnd, @CSS_Zurich & @ICRC. Tweeting on conflict, development and how we can all get along.
This very good thread could be applied to international engagement in a lot of places... delete "Ukraine" and add in the place of your choice.
The difference is that Ukraine, confident it has backing from big Western donors, has been firmer at calling the internationals out.
@devcomms@iddbirmingham@kaveri_med@SussexDev This is a huge honour. Thank you to the prize committee and to all who supported me on my PhD journey, especially supervisors @jacksopb and @martin_ottmann, colleagues @iddbirmingham and @CSS_ETHZurich and all those I interviewed and contacted for advice along the way.
The ETH/PRIO Civil Conflict Ceasefire Dataset is released today!
Ceasefires are a common in (almost) all intra-state conflict. But knowledge of their causes and consequences has previously been limited by the lack of suitable data. 🧵
https://t.co/rJC2ekl01w
War-making as bad parenting:
"Wars are like children –
you create one, offer scant
effort, then call it botched as the years
accrue, go off and make
a new one with somebody else.
A chance to finally get it right."
- Natalie Shapero
"Conflict sensitivity...should lead us to...consider whether the practices we employ genuinely incentivise the kinds of change we want to see.”
Thought-provoking read that links #conflictsensitivity to the #decolonization and #localization agendas in the aid sector.
How can we make sure #conflictsensitivity practices are less of a technical, box-ticking exercise & more of a political effort to address structural inequalities? Find out in this @DipDsaa article by @AlastairCarr @staraboulsi @RahmaDafeedow@TimSaferworld https://t.co/amm9OnnmgX
✓ "The peacemaking community don't know how important they are to the fight against climate change"
✓ "Who is going to represent nature at the table?"
✓ Inner peace is the fundamental basis for tackling climate change
Thought-provoking stuff from @SimonJAMason & @OliviaLazard
Climate change, conflict and peacemaking: challenges are truely frightening. Thanks to @OliviaLazard for bringing some hope through the regeneration angle. @CSS_Zurich
Over the past years, we've developed a framework that categorises signals of affective polarization online, which we use in our #digitalpeacebuilding programs at @howtobuildpeace
Maybe you'll find it useful too?
Summary in this thread or full read: https://t.co/CEjQYbh0cF
@ian_d_quick Establish clear criteria based on your personal situation. Mine: no compulsory taught courses, distance-learning, supervisor with a foot in both research and practice who is likable and interested, low fees.
Why is negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine so difficult and what might help? @ValerieSticher cuts to the heart of the matter with this excellent piece 👏
Zelensky is an incredibly effective wartime leader. But mobilizing for peace may pose a more formidable challenge than mobilizing for war.
My thoughts on a 🇺🇦🇷🇺 settlement in @PVGlance, based on @Journal_of_GSS article on https://t.co/qbXedCLSeB @UCIGCC
https://t.co/YGvvWypvAL
This new book on #AdaptiveMediation promises helpful insights on the practicalities of putting local ownership and sustainability at the centre of peacemaking.
And it is #openaccess, so free to download!
This is a thread about our new book #AdaptiveMediation and Conflict Resolution: Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria, edited with Ako Muto & Rui Saraiva of JICA ➡️https://t.co/5n72Ar7kQX #OpenAccess@Palgrave@SpringerNature#SDG series
Over the past 10 years, I have read 100+ books on negotiation and communication.
Truth is, 90% of them were a waste of time.
So if you want to upgrade your communication, let me save you the effort.
Here's 9 books that will change your life 🧵👇
We’ve received thousands of questions on the Geneva Conventions.
So, we’re going to break down the rules of war you need to know right now.
All states have signed these – and are legally obligated to follow them.
Thread 👇
Important argument for how we should think about extremism. Key implication: stop treating extremism as a pathology or a mindset. Engagement in extreme violence can be explained by conventional explanations for violence: fear, enemy images and defence of a way of life.
What is Extremism?
Not what we're usually told. For a summary of some of my relevant research on this, check out the video of my 'Rethinking Extremism' talk at @LMU_Muenchen on 11 Feb 2022.
Perhaps an apt day to release this given #RussiaUkraineCrisis
https://t.co/zOIU5UmSOZ