Publications

Civil wars are highly complex processes involving a myriad of actors whose interactions shape transitions to and from war in non-linear ways

Civil wars leave enduring legacies for social networks, political identities, preferences, and attitudes

Civil wars unfold in path-dependent and endogenous ways through dynamics that actors’ evolving interactions generate

Understanding civil wars’ effects on humanitarian activities requires mapping systems relationships between actors involved in the conflict

Family as a social institution is entangled with the aims of war and is profoundly transformed by violence

Violence after war reflects continuities and changes from war to post-war that tools from civil war studies and perspectives of the actors involved can help capture

Complex silences and artistic practices are among unconventional sites of agency through which conflict-affected individuals navigate continuities of injustice from formal transitional justice shortcomings

A novel Critical Discourse Analysis Guided Topic Modeling method brings the context of social structures and processes in the analysis of topics

Fundamentally different dynamics of conflict shape armed group origins in the context of broad-based mobilisation, peripheral challenges to the state, and intra-regime fragmentation

Civil war scholars should draw on Fujii’s relational approach as an ethical radar for the methods we use and as a reality check on our analytical frameworks

The forum’s contributors both individually and collectively illustrate, a one-size-fits-all approach to ethical review frequently amplifies preexisting power imbalances

The Beyond Compliance Consortium focuses on the concurrent application of compliance + restraint to advance an understanding of full(er) protection in conflict

The article presents a unique case of coalition formation and mobilisation across sectarian differences in Lebanon

Researchers face unique challenges in field research in settings where armed conflict has taken place and/or is ongoing.

A processual approach is needed to capture the dynamism of mid-level commander experiences and, thereby, their heterogeneity

As part of the justice imagination in South Sudan, the arts disrupt conflict by resisting the erasure of past and present violence and offer visions of justice that refuse the …Read More

We offer a new theoretical framework – of militarized familial ties – to capture precisely how familial ties shape, and are shaped by, women’s participation in fighting forces.

This article introduces the concept of ‘counterinsurgency at work’