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With just over three months to go until our @ipsa.org Research Committees Colloquium in Bolzano/Bozen, more information has been added to the event website. Do check out the provisional programme. Early bird registration closes 30 April. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...

Ethnopolitics SG members might be interested in today's episode of @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social's Word of Mouth, on language extinction. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Proudly announcing my latest co-production which can be pre-ordered here: academic.oup.com/book/62306

IPSA Research Committees Colloquium: Minorities under Siege? Plural Societies Facing Plural Challenges
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The British Army's Historical Abuses in Northern Ireland Must be Held to Account The British army on trial.

Between 1969 and the peace deal in 1998, British soldiers killed hundreds of people in Northern Ireland, including many civilians.

Should such collective state violence fade from scrutiny? What is the best way to hold it to account?

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This questioning of the science is something @tagarin.bsky.social, Elliott Hill and I discuss in our analysis of the party politics of the #LoughNeagh crisis, recently published in @bjpir.bsky.social. #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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International Migrants Day

In light of International Migrants Day tomorrow, the PSR's Editorial Team invites you to explore some key contemporary issues relating to international migration with this virtual collection:

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Inequality matters for ethnic conflict. But do group elites actually frame a situation as unjust? In a recent article (doi.org/10.1177/00323217251401758), @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, Christina Zuber and I analyse “grievance frames” in social media posts of ethnic organisations.

Thursdays are for Searches: The Russian Repression Calendar in Occupied Crimea - KonKoop Authoritarian control follows a grim calculus. The literature on state repression shows that coercion is not random but operates under a highly strategic logic. Russia’s repressive campaign in its occupied territories in Ukraine is no exception. Shortly after the illegal occupation and annexation of Crimea in February and March 2014,…

Russian repression against Crimean #Tatars in occupied Ukraine follows a pattern.
Using a new geo-coded event dataset, researchers Elmira Muratova & @felixschulte.bsky.social map human rights violations & explain why repression is often carried out on Thursdays. More on the #KonKoop DataLab blog ⤵️

Congrats and looks great @allimcculloch.bsky.social & @drsiobhanbyrne.bsky.social just in time for my Christmas list 🎅 👍

Have nationalists and unionists set Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance Party up to fail by handing it the task of tackling a blue-green algae crisis at Lough Neagh? Read @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social and Elliott Hill's analysis in this new #BJPIR article.

@inclusivepeaceora.bsky.social colleagues were among those who gave evidence to the NI Affairs Committee on the gov’s approach to Legacy reform.

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Cornish language to receive part III status under European charter Kernewek to have greater protections, like Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic, so it can be used in education and legal hearings The Cornish language is due to be given the same status as Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic after the government submitted it for greater protections under a European charter. Kernewek, spoken as a first language by 563 people according to the last census, has been recommended by the government for part III status under the European charter for regional or minority languages, the highest level of protection available. Continue reading...

Cornish language to receive part III status under European charter

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Contesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies This introduction outlines an agenda for research on protest and power-sharing. Power-sharing scholarship has ignored grassroots contentious politics, viewing protest as a threat to the top-down mo...

Our intro to the 2026 Ethnopolitics special issue on Protest & Power-Sharing is out. It brings together great scholars & cases — Lebanon, Bosnia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Northern Ireland — on how protest & power-sharing interact. Grateful to contributors: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Racism never went away – it simply changed shape When the language of racism lost scientific legitimacy, it changed shape and began targeting cultures instead.

When the language of racism lost scientific legitimacy, it changed shape and began targeting cultures instead.

New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford!

Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.

See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...

Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition | Episode 1 George Kyris, The Recognition of a Right to Statehood and Palestine

Available now: The first episode of Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition featuring an interview with @georgekyris.bsky.social on the recognition of Palestine: bit.ly/4rp2ZTq

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📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now!

'The environment as a second policy dimension in a deeply divided society: The politics of Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh crisis' by @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social & Elliott Hill

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‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently, says freelance writer Stephen Burgen

‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen

This issue includes articles by our colleague, Dr Dawn Walsh @dawnwalsh.bsky.social , and our former PhD student, Dr Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social , including:

"Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies" by Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy

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Don't forget to join us this Thursday for our first event this academic year! More info at: shorturl.fm/CLK4T
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3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh:
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ICYMI: Umut Özkırımlı is working on a 4️⃣th edition of his seminal Theories of Nationalism and is crowdsourcing publications that should be covered in it. Do you know of any? Head to asen.ac.uk/theorieso... to submit them!

One perhaps surprising consequence of the Anglo-Irish Agreement was the inclusion of an Irish language question in the 1991 NI census – and with it, worries about the prospect of a unionist boycott. Here's a thing I wrote about that. #censuspolitics #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One of two new vacancies at the Quill Project.

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PSA26 FAQs and Additional Information | The Political Studies Association (PSA) How can I stay up to date with announcements about PSA26? The dedicated webpage for PSA26 will include all the latest information, deadline dates and related links. PSA Members will also receive…

*PSA26 Annual Conference* - taking place 30 March - 1 April 2026, Oxford.
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📆 Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
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We're offering three small grants of £130 each, to support research activities relevant to the SG. All members can apply but we'll prioritise early career scholars. Applications close 30 September. See the email sent to the Ethnopolitics JiscMail for full details, or contact us if you don't have it.