Transitions to and from civil war
Civil wars are highly complex processes involving a myriad of actors whose interactions shape transitions to and from war in non-linear ways
The paths and legacies of civil war
Civil wars leave enduring legacies for social networks, political identities, preferences, and attitudes
Civil war as a social process: Actors and dynamics from pre- to post-war
Civil wars unfold in path-dependent and endogenous ways through dynamics that actors’ evolving interactions generate
Identifying contemporary civil wars’ effects on humanitarian needs, responses, and outcomes
Understanding civil wars’ effects on humanitarian activities requires mapping systems relationships between actors involved in the conflict
Familial ties as a gendered relationality in civil war
Family as a social institution is entangled with the aims of war and is profoundly transformed by violence
Armed violence in post-war Abkhazia
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
Agency and injustice in Sierra Leone and South Sudan
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
Critical discourse analysis guided topic modeling
A novel Critical Discourse Analysis Guided Topic Modeling method brings the context of social structures and processes in the analysis of topics