iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 12/03/2026

📈 In parallel, we also developed new methodological tools for collecting and analyzing event data on political violence. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

110 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 12/03/2026

Explore and download the data via our open-access dashboard: 🔗 sebvanbaalen.shinyapps.io/maverick_das...

110 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 12/03/2026

📊 A key output is 𝗠𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗞: a new disaggregated, georeferenced dataset on electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya, published in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social 𝗠𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗞 contains 2,200 unique events based on 3,287 event reports in 1992–2022. doi.org/10.1093/jopr...

120 2

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 14/01/2026

📊 The idea is simple: instead of spending time fighting with Word shapes or TikZ, you choose a template (e.g. single or multi-step mechanisms, parallel pathways, moderators, confounders), add your variable labels, and get a consistent causal process plot.

100 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 01/04/2025

This is a first: an accept turned into a reject in a matter of minutes. Journals surely know how to play with your emotions 😅

5170 17

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 12/03/2025

🕊️ Come do a PhD with us @uupeace.bsky.social! We're advertising two positions, one general position and one with a special focus on political violence in democratic countries www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... We offer a great collegiality, excellent support, a proper salary, and a stimulating environment!

144 4

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 07/01/2025

📚 Are you building a dataset? Simplify the coding with your own data collection app! I've written a tutorial on how to build an app in #R #Shiny that allows you to input, save, and edit data in an interactive online environment. ➡️ www.sebastianvanbaalen.se/uploads/tuto... PolSciData Conflictsky

47420 74

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 10/12/2024

Do you want to work with world-class conflict researchers in a supportive environment? Come be my new colleague! @uupeace.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Senior Lecturer. More info here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... and here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Conflictsky

14246 46

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 04/12/2024

My office plants have started to violate the physical integrity of my monitor. Can’t possible be good to have a plant growing in my hardware…

2190 19

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 28/11/2024

Professor Isak Svensson opening the Peace Research in Sweden (PRIS) conference in Gothenburg. Looking forward to present my recent research on restraint and electoral violence escalation.

0341 34

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 22/11/2024

Happening now @uupeace.bsky.social: @golafs.bsky.social defending her dissertation ”Precarious paths to democracy”, with opponent @sdhyde.bsky.social Looking forward to a stimulating discussion!

0151 15

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 20/11/2024

When the state doesn’t meet the needs of certain communities, rebels can step in and provide alternative institutions that respond to local demands. This setup lowers the governance costs for rebels and helps them collaborate with civilians to keep these institutions hidden.

140 4

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 20/11/2024

🪖 Traditional theories argue that rebels need full territorial control to govern. We challenge that view, and argue that low state responsiveness toward rebel-aligned populations creates openings for insurgent institutions, even in state-dominated zones.

131 3

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 30/10/2024

⏳ What people fail to tell you about fieldwork is that its mosty waiting: waiting for authorization, waiting for respondents, waiting for transport, waiting for food.

011 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 28/05/2024

One of the perks of working from Stockholm is that you can take an afternoon run and stop for a swim from a private cliff 🏊

030 3

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 02/05/2024

Had a great time presenting mine and @krishogl.bsky.social work on triangualtion in event datasets on political violence @hertiesecurity.bsky.social today. Excited to continue working on this paper now. Thanks everyone that showed up and asked great questions. conflictsky polsky

030 3

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 30/04/2024

On my way down to Berlin to give a research presentation and academic writing workshop for the PhD group @hertiesecurity.bsky.social Overnight trains really are my new favorite form of work travel!

020 2

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 11/02/2024

Huge congratulations to Côte d’Ivoire tonight. Never seen so many come backs from a single team in one tournament before. Incredible ! 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮 #Afcon2023

011 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 13/01/2024

Tonight is the opening game of #AFCON in Côte d’Ivoire. Disappointed to not be there in person, but excited that I can see the full tournament on Swedish tv. So I will be cheering for Les Élephants from 🇸🇪

010 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 04/01/2024

🇨🇮 I evaluate the argument by leveraging a natural experiment from Western Côte d'Ivoire, where more legitimacy-seeking and more legitimacy-indifferent armed groups came to control proximate and highly comparable communities because of an arbitrary ceasefire line.

100 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 04/01/2024

☮️ Building on insights on rebel governance, I argue that more legitimacy-seeking armed groups are more prone to develop institutions and practices to restrain communal conflict onset and escalation than more legitimacy-indifferent armed groups.

100 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 04/01/2024

The article starts from the observation that most communal conflicts take place in civil war-affected countries, yet armed actors are under-theorised in communal conflict processes. Moreover, armed actors are primarily seen as violence agitators rather than restraining forces.

100 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 19/12/2023

The problem with working in Sweden in December is that my operating system never leaves dark mode…

0100 10

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 06/12/2023

Come be my new colleague at @uupeace.bsky.social We are recruiting a Senior Lecturer in Peace & Conflict Research with a focus on nuclear disarmament. Also great research environment, amazing colleagues, closeness to nature & strong coffee. ➡️ www.pcr.uu.se/about-us/vac... #Conflictsky #Polisky

153 5

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 04/12/2023

Did you maybe mean this one? Was going around on X some time back.

150 5

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 01/12/2023

Sorry to hear that! Maybe a cat picture can help?

120 2

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 20/11/2023

"Vi lever i en värld där små misstag kan få otroligt stora konsekvenser." Intresserad av freds- och konfliktforskning? Nu finns hela avsnittet av @dremmafrans.bsky.social's podcast A-kursen tillgängligt för den som vill höra mig prata om centrala idéer och teorier. open.spotify.com/episode/2ljn...

171 7

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 27/10/2023

Right now at Uppsala University: my amazing partner and colleauge Kate Lonergan defends her dissertation on extraordinary and everyday pathways to reconciliation after civil war.

0100 10

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 27/10/2023

Not sure what you tried so far, but if you haven’t already, allow posts from your feeds in your home feed.

010 1

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 23/10/2023

🥜 Field research is often about learning about more than just your research question; it often requires understanding other economic, social, and political facets of the case. Such as how cashew nuts are grown and processed.

140 4

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 18/10/2023

Great workshop today with @krishogl.bsky.social and our amazing research assistants David Edberg Landeström and Tor Richardson Golinski for our data collection on electoral violence. Looking forward to start presenting preliminary data later this year.

070 7

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 12/10/2023

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) has joined Bluesky. Follow @ucdp.bsky.social for updates from the world’s main provider of data on organized violence in the world. Polisky Conflictsky

1279 27

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 10/10/2023

Working on the code for aggregating event-report level data to event level data for mine and @krishogl.bsky.social data on electoral violence in Kenya 🇰🇪 and Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 Complicated by the fact that my ”co-author” keeps adding random code snippets…

0100 10

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 20/09/2023

🚄 Home again after a ten-day train trip to London, Utrecht, and Amsterdam. First presented ongoing work on rebel governance + electoral violence at CRS conference in London, and then other work on violent election boycotts at University of Amsterdam. Excited to see this girl again ⤵️

020 2

Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 19/09/2023

The night train home from a conference and presentation tour in London and Amsterdam (via Hamburg) provides the perfect occasion for exploring this blue thing. Hope to rebuild and expand my Twitter community here.

030 3