Aila Matanock
Associate Professor, Political Science, UC-Berkeley. I study political violence & international intervention & order/policing. Opinions are my own.
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- Our call for the 2025 Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Annual Meeting on Geostrategic Opportunity and Upheaval on October 9-10 is up! Submissions due on June 16. W/ Yuri Zhukov @laiabalcells.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social @renardsexton.bsky.social More here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
- Can't wait to head down to UCSB in a couple of weeks to help launch @wnomikos.bsky.social's fantastic book!
- Reminder that the @cega-uc.bsky.social #AES2025 deadline for speakers and posters is tomorrow - more information here: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-a...
- Reposted by Aila MatanockAre you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb. Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...
- For early-career conflict researchers: the ESOC Mentorship Program is open! It provides fellows working on conflict with individual mentors, campus engagement with them, and professional development, including attending an ESOC meeting. More details here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
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- So happy to finally have "Weapons of the Weak State: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding" with @susannacampbell.bsky.social in print (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Many thanks to #EGAP for briefing our Journal of Conflict Resolution article with Miguel Garcia Sanchez and Natalia Garbiras Diaz about the #Colombia peace process (with applications to other peace processes currently in the works): egap.org/resource/wha...
- Hoping to get some great papers - for my own curiosity especially on #Mexico #policing - for the @ESoConflict Annual Meeting (Oct 17-19, 2024 at UCLA). Please apply by June 14th! esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #conflictsky #polisky
- Thanks so much to @UCIGCC and Neil Narang/UCSB and the UC IR faculty in attendance for such a great day - got wonderful feedback and learned about some fantastic projects!
- Thrilled and still quite shocked to receive the 2024 Karl Deutsch Award from ISA last week at the annual meeting. I am lucky to have the most amazing community who makes this work possible – and fun! Many thanks to you and the selection committee. www.isanet.org/News/ID/6384... #conflictsky #polisky
- Is #Facebook *the* breeding ground for intolerance? My new Political Communication piece w/ Oren Samet & Leo Arriola challenges assumptions, shows that FB users in #Myanmar are more tolerant. Social media can be a bad tool but more nuance is needed: doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #conflictsky
- From the ESOC Call for Papers for 2024 Annual Meeting: This year's theme is “Hate and Conflict." The submission deadline for full working papers is June 14th, and the meeting will be on October 17-19 at UCLA. See link for more details: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #Polisky #ConflictSky
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- Some exciting virtual events this week: (1) "Join us on Tuesday, February 27, at 1:30 p.m. ET at the @WorldBank's #FragilityForum to discover how #LatAm and the #Caribbean can respond more effectively to #Crime and #Violence challenges bit.ly/3SSsLiH PoliSky ConflictSky @santiagotobon.bsky.social
- From EGAP (with deadline on March 1!): *APPLY NOW* for the EGAP West Africa Regional Hub at CERAP Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire Learning Days workshop (24-29 June). The workshop will focus on causal inference in impact evaluation for Africa-based researchers and evaluators egap.org/project/lear... #polisky
- Very happy to see this whole volume about public opinion and the peace process in Colombia, and to have some of work with Natalia Garbiras Diaz & Miguel Garcia Sanchez finally published en español - muchas gracias a Miguel and Sandra! Polisky Conflictsky
- Curious about the peace process in Colombia? Or about how policymaker positions and popular opinion inform each other? Check out Natalia Garbiras Diaz’s fantastic interview about our recent work, delving into attitude formation among legislators and average citizens: faculti.net/do-citizens-...
- Really looking forward to reading this article that promises to help set the agenda on gender and conflict:
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- Reposted by Aila MatanockIntroducing Conflictsky, a new feed for political conflict and violence! Like and pin the feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:... To post, tag with 'conflictsky' or 'violencesky' It's a polisky sub-feed, so request to join that list if you haven't already: www.paulmusgrave.info/how-to-use-p...
