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The Legacy of Trauma: Can trauma be transmitted across generations?
Read moreBy Pauline Zerla Photo: Belfast, 2018: a women writes on the wall of peace commemorating the violence that happened in…
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Gun-toting grannies and cattle raiders: why understanding civilian-combatant identities can help conflict recovery
Read moreBy Alison Brettle Photo: Man from Mundari Tribe, South Sudan. Credit: klublu/Shutterstock. What might Ukraine’s gun-toting grannies have in common…
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What’s next for children in IS-affiliated families from Iraq?
Read moreBy Joana Cook *In November 2022, the newly formed government of Iraq suspended repatriations of Iraqi nationals from al-Hol camp.…
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Storytelling, Memory and Momentum: Iraq’s Tishreen Movement
Read moreBy Ruba Ali Al-Hassani Introduction While many observers claim that Iraq’s Tishreen protest movement has been coerced into silence,…
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The Spectre of Neuroscience in Security Studies
Read moreBy Nafees Hamid What can neuroscience tell us about violent extremism? As a cognitive scientist who was part of…
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Stories as Research: How Community Narratives Inform Conflict Research
Read moreBy Pauline Zerla Communities in the Central African Republic have experienced war for over a decade. Yet we rarely hear…
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Do No (Self) Harm: Acknowledging Researcher Vulnerability in Research Ethics
Read moreBy Gina Vale Social media has become an indispensable aspect of everyday life. Platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Tumblr,…
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The Importance of Prisons to Terrorist Groups and Movements
Read moreBy Rajan Basra Throughout the history of terrorism, few locations have impacted the evolution of terrorist campaigns as the jail…
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Bringing Loyalist and Opposition Factions Together: The Prospects for Reconciliation in New Syria
Read moreBy Rahaf Aldoughli When Syria’s Bashar al-Assad was running for re-election in 2021, scenes of patriotic regime loyalists piercing their…
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Conflict Trauma and Violence: How Can We Promote Peace?
Read moreBy Ted Barker, Shiraz Maher & Craig Larkin The past two decades have seen a slew of programmatic efforts aimed…