Shirin Jaafari @shirinj.bsky.social Reporter for The World radio program 📻 🎙🎧
Eyes on the Middle East.
Email: Shirin_Jaafari@wgbh.org
http://www.pri.org/people/shirin-jaafari
Asteris Masouras @asteris.bsky.social Freelance journo/global newsfilter; Global Voices, ex-reported.ly; human rights, film/games/scifi geek. Social justice/stay human.
Same handle on Twitter, Mastodon, UpScrolled.
Kudzai @dzuki.bsky.social Spontaneous, adventurous and interactive social being
Shivanee Ramlochan @novelniche.bsky.social Poet, Essayist, Ungovernable.
She/Her/Hers.
Gina Yauri @ginayauri.bsky.social Escritora colaboradora de Global Voices.
Periodista de profesión y convicción.
Me gustan los gatos, el cocholate y el café.
Rebelde, aventurera, intrépida y buena gente.
akwe @akwe.bsky.social Program director and pod host with the Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights@strengthandsol; poet; coach.
Laís Martins @laismartins.com Repórter | tech, direitos humanos e política | em @intercept.com.br e por aí | 25/26 AI Accountability Fellow @pulitzercenter.org |mundus journalism + UvA alumna | dicas? ✉️ laisfm@proton.me e signal laisfm.02 | em PT-BR, sometimes EN
lokman tsui @lokman.org writer, (recovering) academic, amateur activist. teach at graduate institute of journalism, national taiwan university. fellow @citizenlab.ca.
he/him. writing a personal history of home and authoritarianism.
Oiwan @oiwan.bsky.social Editor, Global Voices. Care about human rights, freedom of expression, Hong Kong and China.
Dr Sanjukta Basu, PhD @sanjuktabasu.bsky.social Journalist, Researcher, Communication Specialist. PhD in Women's Studies. Research areas: Women, gender, politics, digital public space, trolling, right wing trolls. Author, Photographer. TED Fellow, TEDx Speaker. Founder, Feminist Alliance Trust, NGO.
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
@razvigor.bsky.social @razvigor.bsky.social 
Joseph K. Young @jkyoung.bsky.social Professor, Director of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, Data Lover, Violence Hater.
Pierre Romera Zhang @pirhoo.com I’m CTO at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (@icij.org) where I build interactive stories, data driven investigations and tools.
#PandoraPapers #UberFiles #FinCENFiles #LuandaLeaks and many more.
Sydney Allen @sydneyallen.bsky.social 
@arnauldkassouin.bsky.social @arnauldkassouin.bsky.social 
Rubén Campos @rubencampos.eurosky.social South Asia, Democracy & Nonviolent Movements Scholar.
@clubdemadrid.bsky.social Programs Director @rielcano.bsky.social Senior Fellow. Proud father-29 years in love with my wife. https://clubmadrid.org/who/secretariat/campos-ruben/
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org Original reporting and analysis on movements for justice around the world. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://wagingnonviolence.org/subscribe/
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Maria J. Stephan @mariajstephan.bsky.social Civil resistance, nonviolent action, social movements, democracy, authoritarianism, political violence, peacebuilding.
Luca Gervasoni Vila @lucagervasoni.bsky.social Director @novact.bsky.social, professor @uocuniversitat.bsky.social and member of the Democracy and Belonging Forum of the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
"La loi interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts”
Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social Senior researcher in Political Science Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Technopolitics, Geopolitics, Political Parties and Public Opinion.
Sharon Erickson Nepstad @snepstad.bsky.social Sociologist, University of New Mexico (USA), studying social movements, revolutions, religion, civil resistance. Guardian of way too many pets and plants.
Lisa Cumming @lisacumin.bsky.social Works in & around conflict grappling. (Local peacebuilding • Nonviolence • Peace practice & thinking.)
Worries in the valley, dreams on the moors. Personal account.
Xavier Marquez @marquezxavier.bsky.social Associate Professor in Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization"
Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social Professor @au-spa.bsky.social
Pol Violence | Pol Psychology
New Book: “NO OPTION BUT SABOTAGE”
Substack: https://zeitzoff.substack.com
1st Book: "Nasty Politics"
Website: www.zeitzoff.com
Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se Associate Professor at the Dep. of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University (@uupeace.bsky.social). Researching dynamics of civil war, rebel governance, civil resistance, electoral violence, postwar violence, Côte d’Ivoire.
www.sebastianvanbaalen.se
Marie Berry @marieberry.bsky.social Associate Prof at https://korbel.du.edu/sie
Director: https://www.theinclusivegloballeadershipinitiative.org/
Research: https://www.wrawproject.org/
Marianne Dahl @mariannedahl.bsky.social Senior researcher @PRIOresearch and deputy editor @JPR_journal, Non-violence, security force behavior, democratization & peace processes. Opinions are my own. Webpage: www.mariannedahl.com
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos @alexchristoy.bsky.social Reader in Politics & International Relations. Editor of Journal of Pacifism & Nonviolence (@jpacnv.bsky.social). Consumer/sharer of politics. Foreigner everywhere. Views my own.
Desirée Nilsson @desireenilsson.bsky.social Professor in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Studying civil war, conflict resolution, civil society, inclusion.
Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Researching political violence & the inner workings of dictatorships
https://felixhaass.de/
Felix S. Bethke @felixbethke.bsky.social Political Scientist at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF, @priforg.bsky.social)
Tweets on DataScience, Econometrics and African Politics
Website: fbethke.netlify.app
Kai Thaler @kaimthaler.bsky.social Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com. Author of When Rebels Win https://tinyurl.com/whenrebelswin
Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social Professor @josefkorble @UofDenver | global politics | climate | technology | security | human rights | democracy | pragmatism. I know, it's a lot. Also ISA, hiking, baking, travel, and #roseistoocute she/her deborahavant.com
Alex Braithwaite @thebraith.bsky.social Political scientist, School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona. Research on concentration camps, refugees and forced migration, violent and nonviolent conflict. 
Isak Svensson @isaksvensson.bsky.social Dag Hammarskjöld Professor in peace and conflict research, Uppsala University. Research on mediation, religion and conflict, civil resistance.
Oliver Kaplan @oliverkaplan.bsky.social Prof @JosefKorbelSchool.bsky.social @UofDenver
📚Books:
RESISTING WAR (2017)
SPEAKING SCIENCE TO POWER (2024) Nonviolent action | Research + Policymaking Ethics | @KorbelAsylum ⛷️🚵♂️🖖
linktr.ee/oliverkaplan
Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest second grader. www.ranakhoury.com
Berghof Foundation @berghoffnd.bsky.social We believe violent conflict is not inevitable. We’re an independent, non-profit organisation creating space for peace around the world.
Farida Bemba Nabourema @faridabemba.bsky.social Writer, Pan-African Activist, Human Rights Defender
@diegodlamancha.bsky.social @diegodlamancha.bsky.social 
Belen Gonzalez @belengonzalez.bsky.social Head of Research for International Security, Peace, and Conflict at the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich | https://belengonzalezsimon.weebly.com
Guest Professor, University of Konstanz | DFG Project: The Dynamics of Mass Protest Event
Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social Sociologist. Religion, culture, politics | Director Meanings of Democracy Lab | 📚 MY TAX DOLLARS, PROPHETS & PATRIOTS, RELIGION & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM | 🎧 WHEN THE WOLVES CAME
Hardy Merriman @hardymerriman.bsky.social Independent consultant focused on nonviolent civil resistance, human rights, democracy, and countering political violence.
Formerly led the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC).
Contact via my website: hardymerriman.com
Ivan Marović @ivanmarovic.bsky.social Veni, Vidi, Zbriši
I came, I saw, I scrammed.
Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social professor, parent, interests in peace, human rights, U.S. foreign policy
Bryan M. Sims @simsbry.bsky.social Director at Humanity United. Philanthropy and Non-Profit Leader I Peacebuilder I Systems Navigator
Matthew Cebul @matthewcebul.bsky.social Political scientist studying civil resistance, democratic erosion, and US foreign policy in MENA. Lead Research Fellow at HKS Nonviolent Action Lab; formerly USIP. Manservant to Korra the cat.
Lives for Alcaraz highlights, epic fantasy, and "draw a card."
Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social Organizer, coalition-builder & Democratic Nominee in #MI07.
YES to Good Housing and Healthcare for All.
NO to Billionaires, Bullies, and Endless Wars.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/william-lawrence-1
Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social Writer of books / drinker of coffee / hater of cilantro /
Senior advisor - @ihrb.bsky.social / Senior associate - @cisl.cam.ac.uk / Contributing editor - @indexoncensorship.org, Singapore Unbound / Board member - PENinternational.bsky.social
Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Political Science
@Yale. Formerly @MITPoliSci @HarvardWCFIA. Contentious politics in Jordan & Syria. peripatetic product of the garden state.
https://biffpm.github.io/
PUREKIMMINESS @purekimminess.bsky.social True to the Kimminess
Conflict/methods/pol econ
teaching and rocking research methods
I don't know about this living in interesting times...feels exhausting
"I'm incredible....cuz I does what I do."
-Craig Mack
Ilker Kalin @ilkerkalin.bsky.social Researcher at democracy.umb.sk & Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS) | Interested in nonviolent resistance, state repression, gender, and military
Alex Hinton @alexhinton.bsky.social Distinguished Prof. of #Anthropology at Rutgers & UNESCO Chair in #Genocide #Prevention / mass violence, Cambodia, #law & society, #extremism, (de)polarization,
https://alexhinton.com / https://sasn.rutgers.edu/alex-hinton
Twitter @AlexLHinton
Efe Tokdemir @efetokdemir.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @bilkentuniv.bsky.social, PI @counster.bsky.social, Director of Research @cfppr.bsky.social
Research on peace&conflict processes, strategic use of force, foreign policy & public opinion, Türkiye
www.efetokdemir.com
Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social staff writer @ The New Republic
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com 🇸🇬 Writer and activist. Author of 'The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope'. Editor-in-Chief of @mekongreview.com. Everything Elf at https://wethecitizens.net. Member of @transformjusticesg.bsky.social and @adpan.bsky.social.
L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social Veteran organizer, writer. She/her. Books: DIRECT ACTION and HOW TO READ A PROTEST. Occasional newsletter: DETOUR AMERICA lakauffman.substack.com
Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social Professor of Comparative & Ukrainian Pols UoM
Democracy in Wartime/GeoPol/EU/DisInfo/Elections/Protest/Identity/Surveys 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇦🇷🇪🇺
📚Zelensky Effect
📚Mapping Mass Mobilization
VProf College D’Europe
Prev @ox.ac.uk Nuffield/StAntonys @harvard.edu @uoft.bsky.social
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict @civilresistance.bsky.social We support research, develop educational resources, & share knowledge about how nonviolent civil resistance movements win rights, freedom, & justice.
Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social Social Change Strategist. Movement-Builder. Story Changer. Leadership Coach. Co-founder Center for Story-based Strategy, Co-author Re:Imagining Change (PM Press 2017) Fighting for a Just Future on a Livable Planet
Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social Director of @SNFAgoraJHU, Professor of PolSci, Director of P3 Lab @JohnsHopkins. Studying organizing, movements, civic engagement, democracy. All views my own.
J. D. Meyers @jdmeyers.bsky.social Theologian, nonviolence theorist, adjunct professor.
Nonviolent resistance, Christianity, Christian Nationalism, labor, teaching, academic libraries, and U.S. higher education.
Lynette Ong @onglynette.bsky.social http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
Mark Engler @markengler.bsky.social Writer based in Philly, author of This Is An Uprising, co-director of Whirlwind Institute, editorial board at Dissent. He/him. Sign up for new writings at: https://whirlwinddispatches.substack.com/
Dave O Mitchell @daveomitchell.bsky.social Climate, energy, polycrisis, anti-imperialism, solarpunk. Impact lead @ Cascade Institute, co-editor Beautiful Trouble: Toolbox for Revolution & Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South. Self-owned views.
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
LaGina Gause @laginagause.bsky.social Political science, Associate professor. Research: race and class inequality, political representation and protesting in the United States. Howard University and University of Michigan alumna.
christian davenport (aka "science", "bittah ninja" [wutang]) @christiandavenport.bsky.social charles tilly distinguished prof of conflict/violence, peace & (soon) love at the university of michigan but more broadly a thinker, writer, human, lover of life/freedom/power & artist (not necessarily in that order). for more: www.christiandavenport.com
Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social We’re a movement of young people fighting fascism to win a Green New Deal | Text GND to 88504 for updates 🌅
linkin.bio/sunrisemvmt
Novact Institute for Nonviolence @novact.bsky.social Waging #nonviolence .
Confronting #authoritarianism.
Building #peace.
Join us https://novact.org/colabora/
Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social Sociologist at USC. Carnegie Fellow & Harvard Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow. Writer. Thinker. 📚Author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.
Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social Conservationist, activist, writer and researcher, rebelling against extinction
Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on being an Apocalyptic Optimist : go.ted.com/danarfisher
Laura Thomas-Walters @laurathowal.bsky.social Environmental social scientist @ Yale University (YPCCC)
Working on climate activism, plant-based diets, messaging experiments etc.
https://lathowal.wixsite.com/laura-thomas-walters
Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Policy Studies, University of Bristol, co-editor @policy-politics.bsky.social, Co-President UCU Bristol, research climate change activism, criminalisation of protest, civil disobedience, critical political economy
James Ozden @jamesozden.bsky.social Founder of socialchangelab.org, doing social movement research. Previously organising grassroots climate & animal advocacy movements.
Now working in philanthropy to help end factory farming.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social It’s pronounced Shay-On-Tay! Asst. Prof of Sociology & AAAS at Dartmouth! I study Black People, Black Political Activism/Resistance, & Black Religion! #Jesus ✝️ #BLM ✊🏾 #ΖφΒ 💙 #SocAF ✨
Seattle 🌲☔️ ➡️ New England/NH🌲🍁
www.Linktree.com/ShaontaTheSociologist
Nelini Stamp 🐺 @nelini.bsky.social Organizing fandoms, making shit pop and bring pop culture shift narratives and change stories. I'm more on threads ...
Extinction Rebellion Global @xrglobal.bsky.social Global non-violent direct action movement demanding a response to the climate and ecological emergency.
More: https://linktr.ee/xrebellion
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social she/her feminist author
Books: The seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
(And others)
Newsletter https://www.feministgiant.com/
Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social Pan-African feminist writer. media specialist.
Editor @afrifeminists.bsky.social
Cofounder @afipcollective.bsky.social
Columnist @newint.bsky.social
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Social Movement Technologies @socialmovetech.bsky.social Campaign support for people power movements and groups across the world. Follow to hear about free and paid training and coaching, reading groups for organizing wisdom, and great organizing. https://socialmovementtechnologies.org