Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com He/him
Photojournalist, biker, reader, writer: street photography, heritage, rights and struggle for them. Food&wine and their history. Italy, Mediterranean, Europe. 🧿
https://linktr.ee/PieroCastellano
Maria Martin de Almagro @drmmartind.bsky.social Research Professor @ugent and editor @JISB. Unapologetically feminist. Anti-war. Researching gender & peacebuilding in an era of environmental catastrophe.
Esther Marijnen @esthermarijnen.bsky.social Associate Professor at Wageningen University. Political ecologist working on militarization, conflict and war. PI of Veni/NWO project on wounded landscapes - https://www.wur.nl/en/show/wounded-landscapes-1.htm
digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social SOAS ex BBC WS. Recovering anthropologist. Writing & reporting on Europe, Africa, the world - militarisation, conflict, energy transitions & The Threat Business
www.digitaldjeli.com
Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social Technical writing, UX, open source research (DR Congo, misogyny, SGBV).
Extremely Online at http://discord.gg/bellingcat
CongoEye member, Bellingcat contributor. Reds and Tolkien fan. Views my own.
Riccardo Giannardi @jonnyghizmo.bsky.social OSINT analyst - Disinfo - Geolocation -
Love digging into pretty much everything -
My blog: https://medium.com/@JonnyGhizmo
Congo Eye @congoeye.com The Democratic Republic of Congo through an open-source lens.
congoeye.com
Paul Radu @paulradu.wsocial.eu co-founder @occrp.org/investigative reporter/innovator/social entrepreneur/Ashoka fellow
Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin.bsky.social Researcher, advisor, scholar and investigator. Hiphop and cooking aficionado. Kujenga amani lazima kuelewa vita.
Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
Ryan O'Farrell @ryanmofarrell.bsky.social Non-state actors and conflicts / mostly East Africa & the Levant / geolocations / Ohioan / Defections Operations Coordinator at the Bridgeway Foundation / @SAISHopkins alum
Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own.
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social Political Violence • Sahel Politics • Editorial Board of afriquexxi.info • Libération (Chroniques du Sahel) https://www.liberation.fr/auteur/yvan-guichaoua/ • Public appearances and interventions in media: https://bit.ly/2J4mT5I • FR & ENG
Vincent Foucher @vincentfoucher.bsky.social West African politics maniac. Bissau-Conakry-Dakar-Banjul & all things Boko Haram. https://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/membre/vincent-foucher/
https://afriquexxi.info/
https://polaf.hypotheses.org/la-revue
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Judith Verweijen @judithverweijen.bsky.social Assistant professor at Utrecht University. Researching militarization, resource conflict & violence at the intersection of conflict studies, political ecology & geography. Focus on eastern DRC.
Adam Sandor @adamsandor.bsky.social Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.- J Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social Writer | Bylines:
@nplusonemag @nybooks @NewLeftReview @AJEnglish etc. | Fellow @typeinvestigate | Writing a book for @FitzcarraldoEds
Tim Glawion @timglawion.bsky.social Researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg & MIASA, Accra
Subjective security, conflict, qual comparison / Centrafrique, Lebanon, Somaliland, Haiti
Book: Security Arena in Africa
https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/staff/glawion-dr-tim
francesco strazzari @zaz.bsky.social professor of international relations | studies armed conflict and social change - Substack (IT): @francescostrazzari
John Lechner @johnalechner.bsky.social Writer, journalist, amateur linguist. DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS out with Bloomsbury March 2025. BEGINNER’S CHECHEN out with Hippocrene
https://www.johnlechnerauthor.com/
Marielle Debos @debos.bsky.social Prof. of Political Science. University of Paris Nanterre @uparisnanterre.bsky.social - ISP
Writing on war, tech, gender, postcolonialism
Completing a book on biometrics in Africa
She/her
https://www.marielledebos.com/en/about/
Koen Vlassenroot @kvlassen.bsky.social Director of Conflict Research Group • Professor at Ghent University • civil war • armed groups • international intervention • cycling
Tanguy Quidelleur @tanguyq.bsky.social PhD. Polical Science / Docteur en Science Politique - Social dynamics of violence in Burkina Faso and Mali. Postdoc - Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP) - Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. Private security in Africa. 
Kristof Titeca @kristoftiteca.bsky.social Professor @iobua.bsky.social, @uantwerpen.be
Senior Associate Fellow @egmontinstitute.bsky.social
Researching conflict, governance and geopolitics in Central & Eastern Africa
DRC / Uganda
www.kristoftiteca.com
MaggieDwyer.bsky.social @maggiedwyer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh; Research on military and politics in Africa, peacekeeping, conflict, interventions.
Adam Baczko @adambaczko.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI) of Sciences Po. Civil Wars, Law and Politics, in Syria, Afghanistan, Mali and more recently Mexico. All publication on https://cv.hal.science/adam-baczko
Pierre Boisselet @pierreboisselet.bsky.social Coordonnateur des recherches sur la violence à Ebuteli, partenaire du Groupe d'études sur le Congo (GEC) de l'Université de New-York (NYU). Toujours avec le Baromètre sécuritaire du Kivu. Ex-
Jeune Afrique. RT≠approbation #RDC #DRC 🇨🇩
Bert Suykens @bertsuykens.bsky.social 
Dino Mahtani @dinomahtani.bsky.social Independent researcher and writer, focused mainly on African affairs. Formerly CrisisGroup, UN, FT, Reuters, Guardian. PhD candidate at LSE.
Ashley Jackson @ashleyajackson.bsky.social Co-director at The Centre on Armed Groups @armedgroups l Nairobi
Henning Tamm @htamm.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews. Research on revolutionary leaders, external support for rebel groups, and armed group fragmentation.
@jasonkstearns.bsky.social @jasonkstearns.bsky.social 
Devon E. A. Curtis @deacurtis.bsky.social Global politics, peace and conflict studies, African politics, peace interventions, African Great Lakes. At POLIS, the Centre of African Studies and Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Romain Malejacq @afghanopoly.bsky.social Associate Prof @RadboudPol @CICAM_RU - @FBAFolke Research Working Groups 2023-2027 - PhD @PoliSciatNU @sciencespo - political violence, NSAGs, #Afghanistan
@spittaelssteven.bsky.social @spittaelssteven.bsky.social 
Paul Staniland @pstaniland.bsky.social UChicago political scientist, amateur bee photographer, Carnegie South Asia nonresident scholar, despairing Bulls fan, public school parent, etc. http://www.paulstaniland.com
Rebecca Tapscott @rtapscott.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR, University of Glasgow. Studying political violence, authoritarianism, research ethics governance (IRBs!) and Uganda. Also reviews editor at Civil Wars.
Corinna Jentzsch @corinnajentzsch.com Political Violence, Civil War, African Politics, Security Studies, Fieldwork Ethics, Gender | Political Scientist @Leiden University | Author of "Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique" (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108936026)
Andrew Lebovich @andrewlebovich.bsky.social Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute. Post-doc with with the Danish Institute for International Studies. PhD in African History from Columbia University. Learning and writing about the Sahel, North Africa, and France.
Alex Waterman @alexwaterman.bsky.social Order in Civil Wars, Counterinsurgency, Ceasefires, NE India, Co-Editor of Civil Wars Journal. Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford. Guitars, Leeds United FC
Clara Voyvodic @cvoyvodic.bsky.social Lecturer in Peace Studies at University of Bradford | conflict crime and development | civilian agency and local order
James Worrall @jamesworrall.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies @ the University of Leeds. Specialist in the Gulf and Levant, Conflict, Order, Global Governance etc.
Co-Editor Civil Wars
https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/112/dr-james-worrall
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