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Caitlin Mollica

@caltinmollica.bsky.social
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Lecturer and Deputy Program Convenor University of Newcastle Writes about youth, transitional justice, access to justice, human rights

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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Maybe the “world first” social media ban was not a great idea to start with?? Regulate big tech, not young people 🤷🏻‍♀️ theconversation.com/social-media...
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Social media giants are not complying with under-16s social media ban, new report finds
eSafety is investigating Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube for “potential non-compliance”. But several questions about the ban remain unanswered.
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Marshall Beier @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I had the pleasure of giving a talk today at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, “Child’s Play: Making Social Meaning in Kids’ Zones and War Zones.” Many thanks to Izabela Steflja for the invitation and to all who attended for the warm welcome and excellent discussion.
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Marshall Beier @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
REMINDER: *** Please share widely *** Call for Papers: Childhood and Public Memory Editor: J. Marshall Beier Deadline for chapter proposals: 30 April 2026 marshallbeier.com/.../cfp-chil....
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Join us in person or online for our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social events to hear about new research from @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester), Saffron O'Neill (Exeter), @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Academic Work Tracker Template v2.3 (2026)
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Newcastle Youth Studies Centre @newcastleyouth.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you are aged between 18-30 and live in Australia, please complete our anonymous online survey asking questions about what platforms you use, as well as some general background questions. uninewcastle.questionpro.com.au/a/TakeSurvey... uninewcastle.questionpro.com.au/a/TakeSurvey...
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AusPSA @auspsa.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🗞️ APSA May Newsletter is here! 🚀 Job alerts + 📣 APSA 2025 Conference updates! Get the latest in your inbox now 👇 🔗 mailchi.mp/aa6a4a95bf36... #APSA #APSA2025 #AcademicJobs #PoliSci#CallForPapers
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APSA Newsletter May 2025
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Caitlin Mollica @caltinmollica.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Looking forward to facilitating this conversation next week between three of my favourite scholars. Register below from this online event.
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Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Join us virtually on 29th April 9-10:30(AEST) for an event on 'Youth Peace Expertise'. I’ll present findings from my DECRA on #YPS & whose expertise 'counts' in peace & security. Then be in convo w the fab Siobhan McEvoy-Levy & Prime Ragandang Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/62a765...
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AusPSA @auspsa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
📢 APSA is now on Bluesky and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/auspsa). Follow us to stay informed about upcoming events, calls for papers, and key updates from across the political studies community. We look forward to connecting with you! #APSA #PoliticalStudies #AcademicCommunity #ResearchNetwork
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Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
THIS!: “For a young person*, [two years is] not really enough time to get into a project & make progress, produce results & really build a career,” said Aidan Sims, a distinguished prof of mathematics at the Uni of Wollongong. *ECR (career stage, not age) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Changes to ARC grants will make it harder for Australia to combat Trump chaos, researchers warn
Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say
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Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Very pleased that my article on compromise in the institutionalising of youth peace advocacy now has an issue number in Globalizations! Glad to hear it has been of interest and use to people already, I hope it might resonate with others also! It’s Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/1474...
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‘What we give up to get where we’re going’: compromise in the institutionalizing of youth peace advocacy
In 2015, the UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS), formalizing an agenda for positive youth participation in peace and security. However, youth...
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Caitlin Mollica @caltinmollica.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The world is on fire, so the least we can do is to stop and think about how we can be careful and inclusive in our own backyard (in this case our disciplines). An ‘excellent conference experience’ is one that makes it easy for our precarious colleagues, students and friend to attend.
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Marshall Beier @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Missed getting this last year, so obligatory ISA book photo with excellent co-editor @hmberents.bsky.social #ISA2025 @brisunipress.bsky.social
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Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Amidst *gestures at the world* everything, I am grateful to see colleagues & friends. And to find myself in the book hall at the same time as co-conspirator/ co-editor @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social for this photo of our @brisunipress.bsky.social book! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/children-chi...
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Children, Childhoods and Global Politics
Children, Childhoods and Global Politics; Written by an international list of contributors, this book presents highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods across global political time. The anal...
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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our new book Story Tech was published today! Read for free at this link: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... Or buy for 30% off at lnkd.in/d--pyyiq using the code UMS25 😁
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Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy
Personal stories have the power to stir the heart, compel us to act, and spark social change. While advocacy organizations have long used storytelling in campaigns, the role technology plays has incre...
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Caitlin Mollica @caltinmollica.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Our article is available in the new issue of @ispjournal.bsky.social. Very grateful to have had the chance to do this work with this fabulous team
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Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
New issue of @ispjournal.bsky.social & in it our article on care-full research now has pg #s! In it @caltinmollica.bsky.social, Hayley Payne, Casey Odger-Jewell, & Savannah Spalding & I reflects on lessons a youth-led, adult-supported project can offer Intl Studies broadly doi.org/10.1093/isp/...
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Feminists have long called attention to often profoundly uneven power relations in international relations research, assumptions regarding who is able to be a “knowledge producer,” and the risks of extractive research. In research “on” and with young people, these dilemmas are compounded by ageist suppositions about youth competencies. This paper reflects on efforts by the authors to design and undertake a youth-led, adult-supported research project on youth activism and peace processes in South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar through virtual interviews. It discusses how our approach to skills training, mentorship, and research design empowers youth researchers to engage in dialogue with youth peacebuilders to establish a more collaborative research agenda. Centering collaboration offers opportunities for more responsive engagement with communities traditionally marginalized within the research environment. The global pandemic has raised questions about research at a distance, the requirements of “participation,” and the ethics of reciprocity with research participants as knowledge producers. In each case, challenges raised difficult questions about the ethics of pursuing research in these complex contexts. We offer the idea of care-full research that centers a feminist, reflexive approach, is collaborative in multiple ways, and generates new possibilities for knowledge creation amidst multiple crises and beyond.Screenshot of a page of the journal International Studies Perspectives detailing the title, authors and publication details as follows: 
Conducting Care-full Research: Collaborative Research amidst Corona, a Coup, and Other Crises 
Helen Berents,   Caitlin Mollica,   Casey Odgers-Jewell, Hayley Payne,   Savannah Spalding
International Studies Perspectives, Volume 26, Issue 1, February 2025, Pages 88–109,
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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Out on 28 March! There are chapters about communities, Indigenous people, veterans and PTSD, depathologisation of trans health and much more. We are having a little online launch on the evening of 31 March so if you’re interested please DM me for details.
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Kerryn Baker @kerrynbaker.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My piece on an eventful 2024 in Solomon Islands, and looking toward what 2025 might bring for @eastasiaforum.bsky.social @anudpa.bsky.social
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New leaders face old problems in Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands saw major political changes in 2024 with Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele taking power after a delayed election, but economic challenges, corruption concerns and regional tensions contin...
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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Proofs for the book I have co-edited with Natalie Ann Hendry, 'Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Social and Historical Perspectives' are here! It will be published on 28 March by Palgrave. link.springer.com/book/9783031...
A chapter called "introduction: remaking experiences and knowledges through critical mental health research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand' by Natalie Ann Hendry and Effie KarageorgosA chapter called Locating the 'moral genealogy' of war trauma in the Australian Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide by Effie Karageorgos
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Steve Threadgold @stevethreadgold.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Canberra people! @juliacoffey.bsky.social and I will be there Feb 17 and 18. On Monday we are presenting in the ANU Sociology seminar series on "Young people, platform practices & dimensions of the data gaze". Can register for in person or zoom here: sociology.cass.anu.edu.au/events/young... 1/3
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Young people, platform practices and dimensions of the ‘data gaze’ | School of Sociology
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Kerryn Baker @kerrynbaker.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Great analysis from Anna Naupa here on rebuilding public trust in parliament after (another) snap election in Vanuatu (including the importance of a strong opposition)
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How can Vanuatu’s new parliament rebuild public trust? - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
A unified coalition government and a vocal, stable opposition are key to political stability in the island nation, says Anna Naupa.
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Caitlin Mollica @caltinmollica.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
What to Watch for in 2025. My excellent friend @hmberents.bsky.social invited me to reflect on one thing I will be paying attention to around the YPS agenda. Spoiler: I'm most concerned with what we owe youth after a decade of promises. Follow the link below to read all the brilliant reflections.
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Here it is: a tribute to Emma Hutchison, my amazing wife and research collaborator. I hope it does justice to the brilliant scholar and the remarkable person she was. Sorry it took me a while after Emma’s passing to gather enough strength to honour her. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...
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Caitlin Mollica @caltinmollica.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
After three tough years and a case of burnout it has been excellent to disconnect and explore Tanzania. With four more weeks left of adventures I’m signing off completely until 2025! Happy holidays folks, please enjoy some of my favourite pictures from Tanzania
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Katrina Leclerc, PhD @leclerck.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🌍✨ Marking 9 years of #UNSCR2250, I reflect on the resilience of young peacebuilders & the transformative potential of the #YPS agenda. Its impact depends on how we confront power, question legacies & invest in change. Read more⤵️ #Youth4Peace #YouthPeaceSecurity 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflec...
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Reflecting on Nine Years of UNSCR 2250: Youth Agency in a Fractured World
Reflections on 9 years of UNSCR 2250: exploring youth resilience, leadership, and the transformative potential of the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda.
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Caitlin Mollica @caltinmollica.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Our Special Issue ‘Reimagining Transitional Justice’ is starting to take shape. Read this excellent paper by Güneş Daşli and @emmamurphy.bsky.social online first now and stay tuned for more papers in early 2025.
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Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Yesterday @drljshepherd.bsky.social & I ran the 5th (!) annual Making Space workshop for ECR women & gender diverse international studies scholars in Australia. It remains a highlight of my year, a wonderful supportive space, w honest generous reflections from mentors & mentors alike …
Photo from my backyard because zoom meetings aren’t photogenic. Photograph of the top of trees with a blue sky with scattered clouds. In the foreground are yuccas with their spiky long leaves and white flower spikes on top. Behind that is a spreading poinciana with feathery green leaves and spots of red where the flowers are beginning to come out
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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Just in time for the APSA conference in Perth next week! Looking forward to seeing so many great papers 😁
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Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm excited to announce the launch of the Youth, Peace & Security #YPS Database: an online, searchable resource library of docs related to the agenda! 🔹Visit: ypsdb.org 🟡Read some launch-day reflections: theypsobserver.substack.com/p/announcing... 🥳Thrilled this is now live & hope it is of use!
A logo for the Youth, Peace and security Database. On a dark blue background, the logo is three hands outstretched over five horizontally stacked rectangular shapes representing books or documents. The logo is a soft rainbow colour from purple on the left with reds and greens and then yellows on the right
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Caitlin Mollica @caltinmollica.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I’m so happy for my brilliant friend @hmberents.bsky.social who has just released this wonderful and important database into the world! An important archival space for all those interested in #YPS.
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Joanne Wallis @joannewallis.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Dipping my toe in here to let my - very few - followers know that our new edited book, Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness, has just been published Open Access: www.routledge.com/Power-and-In...
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Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness
This book outlines an analytical framework to understand power, influence, and statecraft in the Pacific Islands region. With contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Ze...
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Marshall Beier @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Academic friends, please share widely and encourage eligible new colleagues to apply: Critical Studies on Security Early Career Outstanding Research Article Award.
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Caitlin Mollica @caltinmollica.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Excited to use my first post on this platform to announce that my book ‘Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation’ is now available in paperback. Get it via the link: sunypress.edu/Books/A/Agen.... You can get 30% off until November 30, 2024 with the code NBN1024
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Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
My fellow co-editors aren't on bsky (yet!), but I'm thrilled we have signed the contract for the book 'Youth Leading Change: Emerging Sites of Knowledge in Peace and Conflict' featuring youth scholar-practitioners! Publication next year, in time for the 10th anniversary of #YPS!
Screenshot of a zoom call with three women. All three women are smiling big smiles at the camera, from their various houses around the world in the backgrounds
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