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Aila Matanock

@matanock.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD. I study political violence & international intervention & order/policing. Opinions are my own.

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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Absolutely delighted to be working more with @ucigcc.bsky.social - such a fantastic organization!
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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
For today's spotlight on EGAPers researching #conflict, read about @matanock.bsky.social work with Miguel Garcia-Sanchez to measure social support during counterinsurgency in Colombia. Read more at buff.ly/Py6JVO0
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Brief 46: Measuring Social Support During Counterinsurgency in Colombia – EGAP
EGAP researcher: Aila Matanock
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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Are you a researcher or practitioners focused on governance, politics, & institutions displaced by recent policy shifts? EGAP is providing a platform to continue vital conversations and evidence-sharing! Learn more & apply here: buff.ly/J5BOmVK
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A fantastic panel kicking off the Empirical Studies of Conflict meeting in Taipei thanks to the organizing work of @renardsexton.bsky.social and NTU! Chia-yi Lee @dotanhaim.bsky.social @emilyrussell.bsky.social
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Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🌏 Insights from CEGA’s latest blog post show how Southeast Asian countries are responding to geopolitical competition, security threats, and rising power rivalries. 🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/SEAsiaInsights
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New Threats, Ad-hoc Networks, and Strategic Flexibility: Security Insights from Southeast Asia
On March 26 and 27, 2025, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Center for Asia Globalization (CAG) hosted the “Workshop on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order: Southeast...
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Mashail Malik @mamalik.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Please circulate! @wpmarble and I are looking for a part-time RA to help with various data tasks. This is a remote-work position that is ideal for recent graduates who are considering applying for a social science PhD. Apply here: forms.gle/EN3JLUiNm8m4...
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Research Assistant Position with Malik and Marble
Prof. Mashail Malik (Harvard) and Dr. William Marble (Stanford) are searching for a part-time research assistant (RA) primarily for a project on the political integration of immigrants in the United S...
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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Please Share: Do you know talented young people considering doing a PhD? the @snfagora.bsky.social at @JHU will welcome at least two pre-doctoral fellows for AY25-27. snfagora.jhu.edu/snf-agora-ac... #gendersky #econsky #polisky #academicsky #predoc #fellow
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SNF Agora Academy Predoctoral Fellowship : Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins
Strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue
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Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
#NewCEGABlog: Pacific for Whom? CEGA recently convened leading security experts from the Pacific region to explore how geopolitical competition interacts with foreign aid and security arrangements. Learn more here: go.cega.org/blogPacificForWhom
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Pacific for Whom? Order Contestation in the Pacific Region
On February 24, 2025, CEGA hosted the Pacific Conference on Multi-actor Security Networks and Global Order at the East-West Center and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In this post, CEGA’s...
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Our call for the 2025 Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Annual Meeting on Geostrategic Opportunity and Upheaval on October 9-10 is up! Submissions due on June 16. W/ Yuri Zhukov @laiabalcells.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social @renardsexton.bsky.social More here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
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Call for Papers and Policy Panel Proposals: 2025 ESOC Annual Meeting
CALL FOR PAPERS AND POLICY PANEL PROPOSALSSubmission Deadline: June 16, 2025The Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Project is holding its Annual Meeting October 9-10, 2025 in Washington D.C.The Annu...
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Can't wait to head down to UCSB in a couple of weeks to help launch @wnomikos.bsky.social's fantastic book!
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Reminder that the @cega-uc.bsky.social #AES2025 deadline for speakers and posters is tomorrow - more information here: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-a...
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2025 Africa Evidence Summit
CEGA and NIERA will co-host the 13th annual Africa Evidence Summit on June 23-24, 2025.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Are you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb. Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...
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HFG Emerging Scholars - HFG
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards recognize promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
For early-career conflict researchers: the ESOC Mentorship Program is open! It provides fellows working on conflict with individual mentors, campus engagement with them, and professional development, including attending an ESOC meeting. More details here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
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ESOC Mentorship Program applications due January 20th!
We are pleased to announce the sixth year of the ESOC Mentorship Program. The purpose of this program is to support an international community of early-career investigators engaged in top-notch empiri...
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Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Excited to share my new article (w/ Leo Arriola & @matanock.bsky.social) published in @polcommjournal.bsky.social Heard the claim that #Facebook caused a genocide by fanning the flames of hate in #Myanmar? The reality may be more complicated… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A brief 🧵 1/15
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Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar
Are social media users in developing and conflict-affected countries more intolerant than non-users? As platforms like Facebook become increasingly viewed as drivers of polarization and violence, t...
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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Curious what happens at an EGAP meeting? Check out this recap of our plenary in Paris this past October. Many thanks to @vinarceneaux.bsky.social & CEVIPOF for hosting & to all who joined for a productive and insightful two days! egap.org/resource/egap-plenary-meeting-in-review-paris-october-2024/
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Patrick M Kuhn @pmkuhn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My small contribution to helping the electoral violence researchers to reconnect and encouraging everyone else interested in the topic to follow them. Likely to have missed some (others might still join), so comment/DM to be included. go.bsky.app/5ULK58P
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Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 19/11/2024
🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith... Conflictsky
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CRS | Cedric Smith Prize
The CRS welcomes submissions for the Cedric Smith Prize 2019 which is a peace research prize awarded for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a student
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
So happy to finally have "Weapons of the Weak State: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding" with @susannacampbell.bsky.social in print (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding - The Review of International Organizations
International Organizations (IOs), such as the United Nations (U.N.), engage in statebuilding in a range of post-conflict states. Statebuilding scholarship largely assumes that IOs, backed by their po...
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Many thanks to #EGAP for briefing our Journal of Conflict Resolution article with Miguel Garcia Sanchez and Natalia Garbiras Diaz about the #Colombia peace process (with applications to other peace processes currently in the works): egap.org/resource/wha...
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What do politicians know about citizens’ preferences for peace agreement provisions? – EGAP
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
Hoping to get some great papers - for my own curiosity especially on #Mexico #policing - for the @ESoConflict Annual Meeting (Oct 17-19, 2024 at UCLA). Please apply by June 14th! esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #conflictsky #polisky
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Call for Papers: 2024 ESOC Annual Meeting
CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: June 14, 2024 The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) is holding its Annual Meeting October 17-19, 2024 at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA The Annual Meeting prog...
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Thanks so much to @UCIGCC and Neil Narang/UCSB and the UC IR faculty in attendance for such a great day - got wonderful feedback and learned about some fantastic projects!
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Thrilled and still quite shocked to receive the 2024 Karl Deutsch Award from ISA last week at the annual meeting. I am lucky to have the most amazing community who makes this work possible – and fun! Many thanks to you and the selection committee. www.isanet.org/News/ID/6384... #conflictsky #polisky
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2023-2024 Award Recipients
ISA 2023 - 2024 Awards Recipients       Congratulations to all recipients of our 2023-2024 Awards! Awards from our Regions Asia Pacific •    Karla Estephany Alvarado Romero (Best ...
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
Is #Facebook *the* breeding ground for intolerance? My new Political Communication piece w/ Oren Samet & Leo Arriola challenges assumptions, shows that FB users in #Myanmar are more tolerant. Social media can be a bad tool but more nuance is needed: doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #conflictsky
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
From the ESOC Call for Papers for 2024 Annual Meeting: This year's theme is “Hate and Conflict." The submission deadline for full working papers is June 14th, and the meeting will be on October 17-19 at UCLA. See link for more details: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #Polisky #ConflictSky
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Oliver Kaplan @oliverkaplan.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Great over view of trends in/ rise of conflict scholarship on Colombia in recent years
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Some exciting virtual events this week: (1) "Join us on Tuesday, February 27, at 1:30 p.m. ET at the @WorldBank's #FragilityForum to discover how #LatAm and the #Caribbean can respond more effectively to #Crime and #Violence challenges bit.ly/3SSsLiH PoliSky ConflictSky @santiagotobon.bsky.social
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
From EGAP (with deadline on March 1!): *APPLY NOW* for the EGAP West Africa Regional Hub at CERAP Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire Learning Days workshop (24-29 June). The workshop will focus on causal inference in impact evaluation for Africa-based researchers and evaluators egap.org/project/lear... #polisky
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Very happy to see this whole volume about public opinion and the peace process in Colombia, and to have some of work with Natalia Garbiras Diaz & Miguel Garcia Sanchez finally published en español - muchas gracias a Miguel and Sandra! Polisky Conflictsky
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Curious about the peace process in Colombia? Or about how policymaker positions and popular opinion inform each other? Check out Natalia Garbiras Diaz’s fantastic interview about our recent work, delving into attitude formation among legislators and average citizens: faculti.net/do-citizens-...
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Aila Matanock @matanock.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Really looking forward to reading this article that promises to help set the agenda on gender and conflict:
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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Call for proposals: Visions in Methodology Conference 2024! VIM is designed to support women who study political methodology! WUSTL will be hosting it on May 24! Send your proposals! Spread the voice! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Bridging The Gap @bridgingthegap.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
You still have time to submit your application for the 2024 Policy Outreach Award! The award will support outreach efforts from early-career scholars that convey policy implications of the scholar’s research to policy practitioners. bridgingthegapproject.org/policy-outre...
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UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation @ucigcc.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
As 2023 draws to a close, a dozen University of California experts reflect on how a year of converging crises upended old assumptions while opening space for new possibilities. Read their analysis on democracy, environment, security, disinformation, the war on drugs, and more here: bit.ly/3NtQDHk
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Dotan Haim @dotanhaim.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Introducing Conflictsky, a new feed for political conflict and violence! Like and pin the feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:... To post, tag with 'conflictsky' or 'violencesky' It's a polisky sub-feed, so request to join that list if you haven't already: www.paulmusgrave.info/how-to-use-p...
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