🎉 CRS member Dr Whitney Grespin has received a new grant from ASMEA for "The Lived Experience: Soviet Assistance to African Security Personnel" — oral histories from Cold War-era African veterans. Congratulations! 💙 #ConflictResearch #ColdWarHistory
⏰ Today is the last day to RSVP for the CRS Annual General Meeting!
📅 Monday 26 Oct, 3pm GMT | Online | All members welcome
Email [email protected] to register and receive joining details.
#CRS #AGM #ConflictResearch
📚 CRS member José A. Gutiérrez (York) has co-edited a new @CivilWarsJrnl special issue: "Navigating Conflict: Agency and Organised Violence in Colombia and Mexico" (Vol. 28, 2026).
tandfonline.com/toc/fciv20/c…
#ConflictResearch #Colombia
📋 CRS Annual General Meeting — Monday 26 October, 3pm GMT, online. Open to all members.
Agenda: annual report, accounts, trustee elections, constitutional updates.
RSVP by 19 Oct: [email protected]
#CRS #AGM #ConflictResearch
📢 Postdoc at DIIS Copenhagen: qualitative research on scorched earth tactics in civil war. Fieldwork in conflict zones + remote sensing. Start March 2027.
⏰ Deadline: 15 October!
diis.career.emply.com/da/ad/… #ConflictResearch
📢 CRS is looking for a Programme Chair for the 2027 Annual Conference!
Open to researchers at all career stages (PhD onwards) across peace & conflict studies. Financial compensation included.
Deadline: 30 Oct 2026 | Apply: [email protected]
conflictresearchsociety.org/…
🏅 The 2026 CRS Medal for Outstanding Contribution goes to Judith Large (Univ. of Kent) — three decades of bridging research and practice across conflict settings, and a driving force in shaping the CRS.
Congratulations Judith! 💙 #ConflictResearch #CRSMedal
📖 Nominations are open for the CRS Book of the Year Prize 2027!
Published a great book on peace & conflict studies? Nominate it — no supporting docs needed, just author/title/publisher.
Deadline: 31 Jan 2027 | Self-nominations welcome!
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#CRS2026 in Glasgow is behind us — thank you to everyone who joined us. 💙
What did you take away? A paper that stuck, a conversation that opened something new? Share your reflections in the replies!
#ConflictResearch #Glasgow
CRS member Mark Schroeder (USC) has a new book out 27 Oct — When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict (Princeton UP). How misreading people drives conflict at every scale.
press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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Two great OA articles from CRS members:
🔹 Flora McCrone — elite politics & violence in post-devolution Kenya (JMAS)
🔹 Clara Voyvodic — roadblock governance in Colombia (Journal of Political Power)
Both free to read. #ConflictResearch #OpenAccess #CRS
CRS members Andrew Thomson & Dominic Bryan (QUB) have published the first Northern Ireland Peace Index. Violence down sharply. Structural peace foundations? Barely moving. A sobering but important finding.
nipi.economicsandpeace.org
#Peacebuilding #NorthernIreland #CRS
New in Journal of Peace Research: CRS member Imrana Buba on civilian compliance & victimization in the Boko Haram insurgency. Qualitative fieldwork in NE Nigeria. A rigorous and important contribution.
doi.org/10.1093/jopres/xjag0…
#ConflictResearch #Nigeria #CRS
Why are Islamist civil wars so hard to end? New book from CRS members Nilsson & Svensson — Jihadist Peace (CUP 2026) — argues transnational ideology creates fundamental uncertainty about capabilities and resolve.
doi.org/10.1017/978100968809…
#ConflictResearch #CivilWar #CRS
Two new pieces from CRS member Dr Ezenwa Olumba (Aston):
→ Why some veterans never really come home (Psychology Today)
→ A new model of immobility in migration (Journal of Intercultural Studies, OA)
doi.org/10.1080/07256868.202…
#ConflictResearch #CRS
The Conflict Research Society retweeted
It’s out! 👩🏻🔬👩🏻🔬👩🔬 Conflict research relies heavily on text-based data. In our analysis in @Nature, we show how combining satellite-derived war damage data with existing sources can reveal the complexity of conflict dynamics.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
@ETH_en @UZH_en @EPFL
CRS member Georgios Karyotis @george_karyotis captured Day 1 of #CRS2026 in Glasgow on video 🎥
If you weren't able to join us in person — or just want to relive the highlights — this is a great way to get a feel for what the conference is all about.
🏆 A day of celebrations at #CRS2026 in Glasgow! Today we presented three of our annual prizes in person. A thread 🧵
🎉 The 2026 Cedric Smith Prize was received by Andrea C. Caflisch (UCL) — best peace & conflict research by a PhD candidate — working on migration politics & post-conflict recovery.
🌟 And we celebrated Xiaodong Bao (KCL), recipient of the Sydney Bailey Fund, supporting PhD fieldwork through CRS member donations. 💙 #CRS2026 #CedricSmithPrize #SydneyBaileyFund
