Edmond Sylvester Alpha’s ability to rebuild trust in #SierraLeone’s election commission is in question after he oversaw part of the disputed 2023 vote and dismissed the #EU’s criticism of opaque tabulation and statistical inconsistencies.
africa-conf.com/bio-appoints...
The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment
My review of Theresa Betancourt's "Shadows into Light: A Generation of Former Child Soldiers Comes of Age" in The Journal of Development Studies is now available online www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ITUSA...
Postdoc alert! I'm looking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations (2 years) to work on my historically focused ARC project, “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees." Please share widely. jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/56...
ICE Is Detaining Hundreds of Children www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
The forced recruitment of Colombian children is both a personal tragedy for hundreds of individuals and their families, as well as a devastating blow to communities across Colombia.
The government should make the safety of these children a priority: www.crisisgroup.org/brf/latin-am...
I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.
Yesterday, the Burkinabè authorities announced the dissolution of all political parties and the repeal of the legislative framework governing them, along with the transfer of their assets to the State.
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There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
I am recruiting! Two 4-year postdoc fellow positions for 'Technology and the (future) Human in War: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/36e1adc2...
#jobs #academicjob
And if I'm not near Princeton, you won't give the talk?
📢 We’re Hiring a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research! ⬇️
We are looking for an internationally recognized academic to join our ambitious and supportive research community.
📍 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
📆 Application deadline: 26 March
🔗 Apply / Learn more: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
From my brilliant colleague and friend, Susan Erikson.
sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/22/t...
María Cárdenas and I are looking for participants + papers for a panel proposal on "Fascist backlashes and conviviality in times of crises" for @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2026 in Lisbon. See our abstract below. Please send us your ideas until 10 February!
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Very tempting offer.
If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+
On January 20 at 1 PM, Free DC is calling on everyone to leave work and join us to rally together against this regime and in support of our communities. More details: freedcproject.org/event-list/w...
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Call for session proposals for an interesting looking conference on connections between land governance and peace and conflict studies. submissions due Jan. 12! landportal.org/news/2026/01...
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
*** Please share widely ***
Call for Papers: Childhood and Public Memory
Editor: J. Marshall Beier
Deadline for chapter proposals: 30 April 2026
marshallbeier.com/wp-content/u...
Are you a mid-career #policymaker, #activist, #researcher or #practitioner committed to addressing #inequality? Apply by 16 January 2026 for the fully-funded 2026-27 AFSEE fellowship directed by my colleague Armine Ishkanian at the LSE's III: afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/apply
Lots of grumbling in Freetown that it doesn't feel like Christmas at all. Everyone is hard up. "We thank God for life and health, and that's all."
The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Proud of my host institution this year, the University of Makeni, for this kind of work. unimak.edu.sl/universities...
In Sierra Leone, popular trust in the national electoral commission has dropped by nearly half since 2018, falling from 64% to 34%.
Head over to our website to read more: bit.ly/4oYtGMq
#SierraLeone #Trust #VoicesAfrica
