📖 Nominations are open for the CRS Book of the Year Prize 2026!
Published a great book on peace & conflict studies? Nominate it — no docs needed, just author/title/publisher.
Deadline: 31 Jan 2027 | Self-nominations welcome
conflictresearchsociety.org #ConflictResearch #BookPrize
#CRS2026 in Glasgow is behind us — thank you to everyone who joined us. 💙
What did you take away? A paper that stuck, a conversation that opened something new? Share your reflections in the replies!
#ConflictResearch #Glasgow
CRS member Mark Schroeder (USC) has a new book out 27 Oct — When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict (Princeton UP). How misreading people drives conflict at every scale.
press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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Two great OA articles from CRS members:
🔹 Flora McCrone — elite politics & violence in post-devolution Kenya (JMAS)
🔹 Clara Voyvodic — roadblock governance in Colombia (Journal of Political Power)
Both free to read. #ConflictResearch #OpenAccess #CRS
CRS members Andrew Thomson & Dominic Bryan (QUB) have published the first Northern Ireland Peace Index. Violence down sharply. Structural peace foundations? Barely moving. A sobering but important finding.
nipi.economicsandpeace.org
#Peacebuilding #NorthernIreland #CRS
New in Journal of Peace Research: CRS member Imrana Buba on civilian compliance & victimization in the Boko Haram insurgency. Qualitative fieldwork in NE Nigeria. A rigorous and important contribution.
doi.org/10.1093/jopres/xjag0…
#ConflictResearch #Nigeria #CRS
Why are Islamist civil wars so hard to end? New book from CRS members Nilsson & Svensson — Jihadist Peace (CUP 2026) — argues transnational ideology creates fundamental uncertainty about capabilities and resolve.
doi.org/10.1017/978100968809…
#ConflictResearch #CivilWar #CRS
Two new pieces from CRS member Dr Ezenwa Olumba (Aston):
→ Why some veterans never really come home (Psychology Today)
→ A new model of immobility in migration (Journal of Intercultural Studies, OA)
doi.org/10.1080/07256868.202…
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The Conflict Research Society retweeted
It’s out! 👩🏻🔬👩🏻🔬👩🔬 Conflict research relies heavily on text-based data. In our analysis in @Nature, we show how combining satellite-derived war damage data with existing sources can reveal the complexity of conflict dynamics.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
@ETH_en @UZH_en @EPFL
CRS member Georgios Karyotis @george_karyotis captured Day 1 of #CRS2026 in Glasgow on video 🎥
If you weren't able to join us in person — or just want to relive the highlights — this is a great way to get a feel for what the conference is all about.
🏆 A day of celebrations at #CRS2026 in Glasgow! Today we presented three of our annual prizes in person. A thread 🧵
🎉 The 2026 Cedric Smith Prize was received by Andrea C. Caflisch (UCL) — best peace & conflict research by a PhD candidate — working on migration politics & post-conflict recovery.
🌟 And we celebrated Xiaodong Bao (KCL), recipient of the Sydney Bailey Fund, supporting PhD fieldwork through CRS member donations. 💙 #CRS2026 #CedricSmithPrize #SydneyBaileyFund
And we are off! 🎉 The CRS Annual Conference 2026 is underway at @UofGlasgow .
Our first keynote, Prof. Stathis Kalyvas @SKalyvas, is reflecting on how the field has evolved in conceptualising civil wars and violence - a fitting way to open two days of conflict research.
Deadline THIS Sunday — ECPR Political Violence online seminar series 2026-27 is seeking presentations. 1-page proposal to eleanor.williams@dcu.ie by 13 Sept.
Civil war, terrorism, rebellion, civilian responses — all welcome.
#ConflictResearch #ECPR #CRS
The CRS Annual Conference 2026 is THIS WEEK! 🎉
8-10 September, University of Glasgow. Workshops, keynote by Prof. Stathis Kalyvas, Book Prize announcement & conference dinner at Glasgow City Chambers.
See you in Scotland! #CRS2026 #ConflictResearch #Glasgow
Possibly our favourite headline this month: CRS member Primitivo Ragandang has published on the role of dogs in peace 🐕
Also out: J. David Thompson on principal-proxy relationships in Scientia Militaria. Congratulations both!
#ConflictResearch #Peacebuilding #CRS
Congrats to CRS member José A. Gutiérrez on a timely new book — Transitional Justice and Agrarian Conflict (Palgrave 2026) takes the rural dimensions of TJ seriously in Colombia, Kenya, Peru & the Philippines.
link.springer.com/book/97830…
#ConflictResearch #CRS
CRS member Dr Dana Landau (swisspeace) just wrapped a 2-year project on women-led dialogues in Colombia, Kosovo & the Philippines — synthesis report + 3 policy briefs.
swisspeace.ch/articles/dialo…
#Peacebuilding #Gender #CRS