Heading to Canterbury for the 2025 Conflict Research Society Conference #CRS2025

I’ll be presenting in the panel “Sustaining Conflict: Conflict Recurrence and Protracted Wars.” on the Gaza genocide and the limitations of predictive systems in protracted conflicts.

That is, the PKK confirms it's ready for a new peace process. Unclear though how will Turkey build trust during the process considering its increasingly heavy crackdown on the Kurdish party DEM-run municipalities and the unprecedented targeting of those CHP municipalities elected with Kurdish votes

Reading a 2020 COAR report on Qamishli in Northeast Syria.
Of all the recent developments in Syria, I’ve yet to read anything about how the collapse of Assad’s regime will impact Rojava’s governance capabilities.

From @jhollandmccowan PhD thesis, on the understanding between the YPG and the US. Although it seems to me that the US has never publicly expressed this stance

Call for Papers! 🗣️
Informality as a Methodological Approach: Crises, Conflicts, Governance, and the Everyday
Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
Where: Naples, Italy

#informality #governance #crises #conflict #methodology #cfp #academictwitter

#CfP also for a panel "Turkey between the past and today’s world. Who’s and How’s the Other?", proposed with
@RiccardoGasco @samu_abrami @jacopo_fr
t.co/8oogfmx4fn

#CfP Abstracts wanted for our panel "New Directions in Kurdish Studies: Tracing Political, Social, and Cultural Transformations across borders" proposed with my colleague N. Degli Esposti t.co/A3ElAzpowB