Mikael Hiberg Naghizadeh

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My article with Stathis Kalyvas on Islamism and Armed Conflict is now Open Access!

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"Ethiopia's War in Tigray: Learning from the Past, Seeking Peace" - Director's Lunch and Panel YouTube video by HarvardAfrica

I got to play a part in a recent event on the War in Tigray at the Harvard Center for African Studies: www.youtube.com/live/7Si4S1E...

Thank you!

Why Islamism? A Micro-Institutional Approach to Explaining Ideological Choice This article presents a micro-institutional theory of rebel group ideology, positing that it is a product of the process of mobilisation, more so than strategic calculations. The spread of revoluti...

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New article in @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social

Tigray war: Modern geographies of mass violence and the invisibilization of populations The war in Tigray, Ethiopia, which erupted in November 2020, has been marked by widespread atrocities, including organized massacres, the systematic u…

New publication via @politicalgeography.bsky.social 📜

How did the century’s deadliest war become invisible?

In this article, I provide a detailed analysis of the tactics & strategies the Ethiopian regime & allies used to commit & conceal #TigrayGenocide.

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They may try to destroy Universities and our programs, but this whole moment shows that knowledge is extremely important, and that social science --among other sciences-- is critical.

Friends have been asking me about European alternatives to US big tech products, so here's an opinionated list of suggestions.

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It was a privilege to chair our panel Displacement Under Duress: Conflict, Climate Disasters, and Civilian Vulnerability at #ISA2025 in Chicago! Looking forward to seeing these papers published at some point! @mhnagh.bsky.social @maxineleis.bsky.social @andrewshaver.bsky.social

This article introduces open-source satellite-gathered fire data as a tool for detecting unreported conflict events & for improving the reliability of pre-existing conflict event data. @mhnagh.bsky.social also demonstrates its potential, e. g. to detect unreported targeted violence involving arson.

The uses for fire data and satellite images in monitoring, detecting, and documenting collective political violence - Mikael Hiberg Naghizadeh, 2024 A recurring obstacle to scholarly inquiry into conflict is the lack of access to reliable data. The advent of innovative technologies and methods for remote dat...

Also this one, which is open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What we Don't see: Uncovering intercommunal violence through remote sensing Earth observing remote sensing technology offers a pioneering method for gathering data on collective violence that would otherwise remain unseen, unr…

Article out in @politicalgeography.bsky.social

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