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Rådgiver Evalueringsavdeling/Norec Associated Researcher TraCe/Goethe University Frankfurt civil conflict | peace negotiations | nonviolent action | development cooperation | quantitative methods (views are my own)

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Fostering agreements or hampering compromise: the context-specific effect of sanctions in peace negotiations Abstract. Whether sanctions push conflict parties to reach a negotiated settlement and contribute to ending violent conflicts is disputed in the literature

Excited that our article has been published at JPR! We study the impact of sanctions on peace negotiations in intrastate conflicts. Building on experimental insights from political psychology, we argue that the impact of sanctions differs by conflict incompatibility:
doi.org/10.1093/jopr...

06.03.2026 17:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Flag of University of Gothenburg, hanging from the wall of the Department of Political Science building. Added text: We're Hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cross-National Survey Methodology in Political Science. Combined position at V-Dem Institute and Governance and Local Development Institute.

Flag of University of Gothenburg, hanging from the wall of the Department of Political Science building. Added text: We're Hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cross-National Survey Methodology in Political Science. Combined position at V-Dem Institute and Governance and Local Development Institute.

📢 We are hiring: Combined Postdoc position at V-Dem Institute and GLD!
Applications are open for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cross-National Survey Methodology in Political Science.

Application: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

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#Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceJobs #PostDoc

05.03.2026 11:14 👍 6 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
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#Internship at DEMSCORE Fall 2026
Are you a student with a strong interest in data-driven research within the field of social science? Apply now for an internship at DEMSCORE during the fall semester 2026.

👉 Application information: www.demscore.se/about/intern...

📆 Application deadline: April 12

05.03.2026 13:51 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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You're Welcome, Mr. Supreme Leader On the irony of cameras built to police Iranians becoming the regime’s Achilles’ heel

"The cameras that had surveilled women for showing their hair, that had tracked protesters through city streets, that had sent threatening text messages to millions, those same cameras led the strike team to Khamenei’s door." royapakzad.substack.com/p/youre-welc...

05.03.2026 13:54 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

die cdu KOOPERIERT BEREITS mit der afd

25.02.2026 21:49 👍 79 🔁 32 💬 10 📌 1
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Leitung Referat Steuerung und Evaluierung, stellvertretende Leitung (w/m/d/k.A.) | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt, befristet bis zum 30.11.2029, eine Leitung Referat Steuerung und Evaluierung, stellvertretende Leitung (w/m/d/k.A.) für den Bereich Internationale Zusammenarbeit...

🟢 Jetzt bewerben! Wir suchen eine Leitung Referat Steuerung und Evaluierung, stellvertretende Leitung (w/m/d/k.A.) für den Bereich Internationale Zusammenarbeit ➤ 39h/Woche ➤ Die Bewerbungsfrist endet am 01.03.2026 ➤ Mehr Infos hier ⤵️ www.boell.de/de/2026/02/1...

13.02.2026 17:41 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m through increases in arts-related expenditure, productivity gains and reduced reliance on other welfare payments, according to a government-commissioned cost-benefit analysis.”

11.02.2026 11:16 👍 90 🔁 49 💬 1 📌 1
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Religious Elites, (Non)Politicization, and Intergroup Attitudes among Muslim Immigrants in Germany | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social.

it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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02.02.2026 16:14 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0

Congrats Osman!

02.02.2026 16:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

26.01.2026 20:12 👍 12178 🔁 3401 💬 180 📌 210
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Prosjektleder (291292) | Norec Stillingstittel: Prosjektleder (291292), Arbeidsgiver: Norec, Søknadsfrist: onsdag 21. januar 2026

Vil du bli vår nye kollega? Evalueringsavdeling for norsk utviklingssamarbeid søker prosjektleder:
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

18.12.2025 12:43 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Life Under a Clicktatorship What happens to government when everything is content?

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

07.01.2026 12:40 👍 2274 🔁 694 💬 73 📌 132

Because international media largely seems to struggle to choose the correct wording to describe what’s happening: the US, under the self describes „peace president“, attacked another country and kidnapped its president. That is factual, no matter how bad or illegitimate Maduro‘s rule is (very bad).

03.01.2026 11:18 👍 2638 🔁 797 💬 47 📌 20
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„Die Mullahs müssen verschwinden“
Tag 2 der Proteste in Teheran gegen das Regime. Begonnen haben die Proteste gestern in den Basaren und Malls. Ladenbesitzer schlossen ihre Geschäfte, um gegen die Preiserhöhungen und Inflation zu demonstrieren. Die Menschen haben längst genug von diesem Regime.

29.12.2025 14:30 👍 554 🔁 210 💬 5 📌 15

Wow, Einreisesperre in die USA gegen 5 namentlich genannte Personen, und darunter sind die 2 Gründerinnen von @hateaid.org, das crazy.
HateAid ist eine immens wichtige NGO für Opfer von Hass und Hetze

23.12.2025 23:20 👍 79 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
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Prosjektleder (291292) | Norec Stillingstittel: Prosjektleder (291292), Arbeidsgiver: Norec, Søknadsfrist: onsdag 21. januar 2026

Vil du bli vår nye kollega? Evalueringsavdeling for norsk utviklingssamarbeid søker prosjektleder:
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

18.12.2025 12:43 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure

www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

17.12.2025 10:43 👍 56 🔁 61 💬 0 📌 1
Bar charge of "documented attacks on science" for January to Jun 2025 compared to last four presidents. Trump's attacks (402) far outweigh all the others, combined, and most of the others were from the first Trump administration and from the Bush period.

Bar charge of "documented attacks on science" for January to Jun 2025 compared to last four presidents. Trump's attacks (402) far outweigh all the others, combined, and most of the others were from the first Trump administration and from the Bush period.

Extreme attacks on #science documented here for just the first six months of the Trump regime. More data and information here:
www.ucs.org/resources/sc...

10.12.2025 17:50 👍 91 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 4
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The Curse of Coercive Mediation: The Instrumentalization of External Military Support in Peace Processes and the Breakdown of Imposed Agreements Abstract. This article argues that third-party mediators who simultaneously provide external military support to a conflict party possess unique leverage t

What happens when third-party mediators use the external military support they provide as leverage in peace negotiations? Check out our new open access article here:

doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

08.12.2025 19:04 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

07.12.2025 05:13 👍 1013 🔁 388 💬 8 📌 6
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Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse. Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

06.12.2025 20:22 👍 1039 🔁 464 💬 39 📌 110

Bethlehem Christmas tree lit up for first time since Gaza war

www.arabnews.com/node/2625306...

06.12.2025 22:43 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Printed in a gradient of dark blue-green at the bottom through dark blue to light blue at the top, this is my 9.25” x 12.5” portrait of Japanese geochemist in the lab adjusting a round bottomed flask with other posts and an array of chemical glassware in the foreground. In the background are carved ocean waves so the top looks like sky over wavy ocean

Printed in a gradient of dark blue-green at the bottom through dark blue to light blue at the top, this is my 9.25” x 12.5” portrait of Japanese geochemist in the lab adjusting a round bottomed flask with other posts and an array of chemical glassware in the foreground. In the background are carved ocean waves so the top looks like sky over wavy ocean

Day 3 of #artAdventCalendar: another new portrait - geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci A 🧵

03.12.2025 13:46 👍 77 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0
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He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’ For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are ...

For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are being hunted down

@kaamilahmed.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

02.11.2025 23:40 👍 86 🔁 50 💬 0 📌 1

Die enorme Kraft, wenn Menschenmassen gemeinsam schweigen. Ich bin wirklich beeindruckt von diesem Protest und dem langen Atem der Mobilisierung. Das ist ein Funke Hoffnung in dieser politisch doch sehr bedrückenden Welt.

01.11.2025 13:35 👍 160 🔁 58 💬 0 📌 0
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The russian occupiers announced the completion of the "reconstruction" of the Mariupol Drama Theater — the very one they bombed in Mar 2022, when hundreds of people w/ kids were sheltering inside.

In Dec, they plan to reopen it and stage russian plays literally on the blood and bones of Ukrainians.

01.11.2025 14:33 👍 118 🔁 73 💬 10 📌 5
Office buildings at Jølstra river

Office buildings at Jølstra river

Gleder meg til å begynne i ny jobb hos NOREC på mandag!

Looking forward to start my new Job in the Evaluation Department at NOREC!

31.10.2025 15:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Seeing is believing: Voluntary gender quotas change female leadership stereotypes - Vladimir Chlouba, 2025 Can gender quotas voluntarily adopted by political parties alter stereotypical views about women in politics? This article examines Namibia’s SWAPO, an electora...

Can voluntary gender quotas shift views on women in politics? Vladimir Chlouba’s study of Namibia’s SWAPO finds that a 50/50 quota increased women’s belief in equal political access—without backlash from men, reshaping perceptions of leadership.

Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

28.10.2025 18:42 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)!

If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

28.10.2025 15:39 👍 41 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0

Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations.

It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.

27.10.2025 02:06 👍 364 🔁 143 💬 6 📌 3