Publications

Civil wars are highly complex processes involving a myriad of actors whose interactions shape transitions to and from war in non-linear ways

Civil wars leave enduring legacies for social networks, political identities, preferences, and attitudes

Civil wars unfold in path-dependent and endogenous ways through dynamics that actors’ evolving interactions generate

Understanding civil wars’ effects on humanitarian activities requires mapping systems relationships between actors involved in the conflict

Family as a social institution is entangled with the aims of war and is profoundly transformed by violence

Violence after war reflects continuities and changes from war to post-war that tools from civil war studies and perspectives of the actors involved can help capture

Complex silences and artistic practices are among unconventional sites of agency through which conflict-affected individuals navigate continuities of injustice from formal transitional justice shortcomings

A novel Critical Discourse Analysis Guided Topic Modeling method brings the context of social structures and processes in the analysis of topics

Fundamentally different dynamics of conflict shape armed group origins in the context of broad-based mobilisation, peripheral challenges to the state, and intra-regime fragmentation

Anastasia Shesterinina This is a summary of a review of the legacy of Lee Ann Fujii’s conceptualisation of political violence, and the lessons this provides for the study of civil …Read More

Anastasia Shesterinina This is a summary of an article published in a forum on ethics reviews in International Relations. It is published in International Studies Perspectives; the original publication can …Read More