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Emily Sample, PhD

@dremilysample.bsky.social
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Director of Research, Evidence, & Learning @ Alliance for Peacebuilding. Passionate about human rights/climate change/gender/conflict prevention (she/her)

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afpeacebuilding.bsky.social @afpeacebuilding.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🚨While conflict is inevitable, violent conflict is not. This giving season, your donation helps AfP #MeetTheMoment to prevent and reduce violent conflict and build sustainable #peace. #GivingTuesday Donate: www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/donate
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/09/2025
On Sunday, the International Association of Genocide Scholars said that Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left swaths of the enclave in rubble, meets “the legal definition of genocide.”
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars' association says
Israel's foreign ministry called the resolution “disgraceful,” but it added to a growing chorus from rights groups concluding that Israel is committing genocide.
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International Association of Genocide Scholars @genocidescholars.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The IAGS has declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
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afpeacebuilding.bsky.social @afpeacebuilding.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🚨While conflict is inevitable, violent conflict is not. Your donation helps AfP #MeetTheMoment to prevent and reduce violent conflict and build sustainable #peace. Donate today: www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/donate
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 17/06/2025
The Minnesota shooter who killed a state Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t a lone wolf, insists a scholar of political violence. Violent extremists are almost always part of broader networks, and the myth of the isolated madman obscures the networked reality of far-right violence. buff.ly/zDPigDV
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Violent extremists like the Minnesota shooter are not lone wolves
The lone wolf metaphor used to describe mass shooters misinforms views of extremists – and hampers law enforcement efforts to deter the violence.
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afpeacebuilding.bsky.social @afpeacebuilding.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
AfP calls on the US Government to reverse its termination of life-saving and conflict prevention programs and instead conduct a thorough, transparent review of existing foreign assistance programs. Read AfP's statement: www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/afp-publicat...
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The Alliance for Peacebuilding Calls on the U.S. to Reverse the Termination of Life-Saving and Conflict Prevention Programs and Develop a Strategy that Addresses Global Violent Conflict. — Alliance fo...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2025 CONTACT Rachel Levine | rachel@allianceforpeacebuilding.org Washington, DC, USA — On February 26th, the Trump Administration asserted it plans to...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 25/02/2025
I went to CPAC as an anthropologist to see how Trump supporters are feeling − for them, a ‘golden age’ has begun
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I went to CPAC as an anthropologist to see how Trump supporters are feeling − for them, a ‘golden age’ has begun
This year’s CPAC gathering has been a victory lap for Trump supporters, who have devoted their time at the event to praising the president and his accomplishments.
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afpeacebuilding.bsky.social @afpeacebuilding.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
AfP is currently collecting anonymized stories of impact of the U.S. foreign aid freeze, on-the-ground and organizationally. Tell us how your work makes America—and the world—safer, stronger, and more prosperous here: form.jotform.com/250283550568...
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AfP Collection of Foreign Assistance Stop-Work Order Impacts
Please click the link to complete this form.
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afpeacebuilding.bsky.social @afpeacebuilding.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Stopping U.S. foreign aid makes America—& the world—less safe, less secure & less prosperous. The stop-work order on U.S. foreign assistance is a wrecking ball approach that will increase global chaos & war. #UnfreezeAid #PausethePause Our statement: www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/afp-publicat...
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