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Matthew Simonson
Networks | Conflict | Protest
Conflict & Networks: An Expanding Subfield
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Archival, Interview, & Ethnographic Approaches
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Sarah Parkinson - quotidian networks supporting armed groups in Lebanon
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Ari Perlinger - terrorist networks in Israel
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Ami Pedahzur - terrorist networks in Israel
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Paul Staniland - rebel movement formation through the networks in S/SE Asia
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Idil Tunçer-Kılavuz - networks of civil war powerbrokers in Central Asia
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Steven Zech - insurgent networks and counterinsurgency in Peru
Mixed-Methods Fieldwork and Surveys
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Janet Lewis - rebel group formation and suppression in Uganda
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Jenn Larson - protest mobilization and game-theoretic models of ethnic relations
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Zoe Marks - peacebuilding and ex-combatant reintegration in the DRC
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Omar McDoom - recruitment of genocide perpetrators in Rwanda ​​
Quantitative Analysis of Large Datasets
Networks of States
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Skyler Cranmer - alliance networks and democratic peace theory
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Kristian Gleditsch - conflict prediction/contagion
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Ze’ev Maoz - interstate war onset
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Elizabeth Menninga - alliance networks and militarized international disputes
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Shahryar Minhas - conflict prediction/contagion
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Idean Salehyan - conflict prediction/contagion
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Networks of Armed Groups​
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Victor Asal - alliance network of terrorist groups (co-curator of BAAD)
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Michael Gabbay - terrorist and insurgent groups
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Emily Kalah Gade - militant and rebel groups, focus on the Middle East
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Nils Metternich - opposition groups; conflict contagion
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Koji Oishi - splits and alliances among rebel groups in DRC
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Karl Rethemeyer - alliance network of terrorist groups (co-curator of BAAD)
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Laila Wahedi - rivalry network among terrorist groups
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Networks of Individuals​
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Cassy Dorff - network effects of civilian victimization; networks of opposition groups
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Dotan Haim - counterinsurgency and inter-village kinship networks
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Howard Liu - protests and repression in authoritarian states
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Thorsten Rogall - mobilization for genocide in Rwanda
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Zach Steinert-Threlkeld - protest mobilization on Twitter
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Manuel Vogt - networks of elite actors in contentious politics
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David Yanagizawa-Drott - network effects of propaganda in Rwanda
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Nils Weidmann - communications networks in ethnic relations and civil war
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Earlier Work on Networks and Conflict​​
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Fotini Christia and Dean Knox - "Networks of Sectarianism: Experimental Evidence on Access to Services in Baghdad"
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Lee Ann Fujii - Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda
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Roger Petersen - Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe
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Ashutosh Varshney - Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India
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Elisabeth Wood - "The Social Processes of Civil War: The Wartime Transformation of Social Networks"
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Michael Ward - multiple articles on the network aspects of interstate war
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