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Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
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Reader in Politics & International Relations. Editor of Journal of Pacifism & Nonviolence (@jpacnv.bsky.social). Consumer/sharer of politics. Foreigner everywhere. Views my own.
🎙️Looking forward to participating at tomorrow's webinar on the Radical #Left & the War in #Ukraine organised by @dewalius1961.bsky.social @sciencepoulb.bsky.social
Webinar : Radical leftcand the war in Ukraine. Mandatory registration: [email protected]
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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What have you been up to since graduation? If you graduated from IRPH at Loughborough between May and July 2024, we need you!

You’ll have received an email about the Graduate Outcomes Survey. Check your inbox and take part by 30th November: make your voice count!
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Aujourd'hui = 3eme🎂de la parution de mon livre sur l'#anarchismechrétien qui offre une exégèse #anarchiste du #nouveautestament: atelierdecreationlibertaire.com/L-anarchisme...
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🎙️A Paris pour une journée d'échanges sur " #Paix, guerres et souveraineté" au Sénat, demain, organisée par @guybenarroche.bsky.social de @lesecologistes-pdl.bsky.social @ecologistesenat.bsky.social, où j'évoquerais des sujets abordés dans pressenza.com/fr/2025/09/u....
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
📢Interested in applying for #Leverhulme Early Career #Fellowships 2025 (3yrs full time) with @irph.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social? Note our internal demand-management deadline of 4pm on 1 Dec (!), & pls contact potential supervisors asap: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🎂Today is #DorothyDay's birthday. Here's a free article exploring the extent to which she was influenced by #LeoTolstoy: repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/jou... #anarchism #pacifism #anticlericalism
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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❗ Reminder: deadline for this is a week from now 📅
📢Call for Papers for free #Pacifism & #Nonviolence workshop (to be held in April 2026). Deadline 5 Nov. Full info in PDF in CfP tab here: brill.com/view/journal.... Please circulate widely.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In 2 weeks exactly the UK will fall silent to commemorate #war in a way that is increasingly #militaristic & hegemonic. Here's my #pacifist critique: doi.org/10.1080/2333...
October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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📰Azniv Tadevosyan examines rise of #grotesque aesthetics in nonconformist #Russian popular #music of the late 2010s as a channel for aesthetic #dissensus drawing on #Rancière’s theorisation of politics: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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📰Adam North reflects on the place of #threats as a nonviolent means of redistributing power (via Sorel, syndicalism & Fanon):
brill.com/view/journal...
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
👩‍🎓Fee waiver for doctoral study with us in International Relations, Politics and History (or other departments in School of Social Sciences and Humanities) 👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC380/s...
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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📰Caroline Kennedy-Pipe argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility:
doi.org/10.1163/2772...
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
October 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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📢Call for Papers for free #Pacifism & #Nonviolence workshop (to be held in April 2026). Deadline 5 Nov. Full info in PDF in CfP tab here: brill.com/view/journal.... Please circulate widely.
brill.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Not your typical research seminar...

Earlier this week, Orit Shimoni (@oritshimoni.bsky.social) and Dan Bern discussed the potential for music and art to foster cross-cultural solidarity with the Pacifism and Nonviolence Research Group, complete with live performances.
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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📅Today, international day of #nonviolence, why not check out our pages: brill.com/view/journal...? You'll find work on economics, Islam, historiography, unarmed civilian protection, Gandhi, King, BLM, sabotage, AWS, gender, structural & police violence, etc. Follow us for more!
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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📢JPN 3:2 now out. SI on #Economics of Politics & Nonviolence guest edited by Christopher Coyne. Includes articles on practical #pacifism, #nonviolent action, polycentric #peace, female property rights, & 1849 Paris Peace Congress. brill.com/view/journal...
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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📰 @jasonleebyas.bsky.social brings economic insights to @chenoweth.bsky.social & @mariajstephan.bsky.social to argue violent resistance common despite nonV more effective due to costliness of participation in violence, which makes its preparation a signal 4 mvmt’s seriousness doi.org/10.1163/2772...
September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🗣️ Looking fwd to presenting on #pacifist rejoinders to #Hitler question #CRS2025 conference
September 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🎙A few days ago I was interviewed Mary Youssef about hashtag#Christian hashtag#anarchism (interview proper starts from 3:35 after some technical difficulties :)) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I00K...
what is Christian Anarchism ? with dr. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
YouTube video by ماري يوسف Mary Youssef
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September 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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It's another successful year for IRPH in the Guardian University Guide. Loughborough lands sixth for International Relations, ninth for Politics, and eleventh for History.
The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings
Find a course at one of the top universities in the country
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
📰Ravi d'annoncer la parution d' "Une critique de l’orthodoxie guerrière : Réflexions #pacifistes sur la guerre en #Ukraine" (version traduite et un peu abrégée de doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... ): www.pressenza.com/fr/2025/09/u...
Une critique de l’orthodoxie guerrière : Réflexions pacifistes sur la guerre en Ukraine
Quand la Russie a lancé son invasion à grande échelle de l’Ukraine en février 2022, l’idée largement répandue à travers l’Occident était qu’il y avait un
www.pressenza.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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📰Andrew Fitz-Gibbon examines ethical foundations of #violence & #nonviolence through lens of Pragmatic Ethical Principlism & grounded in cross-cultural ethical traditions, arguing nonviolence is ethically superior by systematically applying 7 core ethical principles
September 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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We are extremely proud to share that Dr Joe Davidson, Vice-Chancellor's Independent Research Fellow here in IRPH, has won the @biapt.bsky.social Early Career Prize for his groundbreaking research and his contributions to the discipline of political theory.

Great job, Joe; well deserved!
September 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM