This young boy made Iron man’s suit with Cartons🥺 It will cost you nothing to RT this creativity.❤️

la mia bella napoli: a thread

1/6 What is the #EU doing to prevent and contrast violent #extremism? Focusing on the #Maghreb and the #Sahel, our latest @PREVEXproject Policy Brief explores how the EU implements one of its key foreign action priorities in #Africa @franxstrax bit.ly/38NxElX

Crossing the Rubicon: The Limits of Insurgent Violence in Kabardino-Balkaria universiteitleiden.nl/binari…

Great to see this out, with contributions from @ToreBjorgo @BartSchuurman3 @macklin_gd @LeenaMalkki @RaquelBPSilva @holbrook_dd @MarkYoungman_UK @RuneEllefsen3 @silviacarenzi @morrison_jf @Jacravn @Prof_Windisch Nigel Copsey and Sarah Jenkins. Huge thanks to all the reviewers

Truly honored to be part of this special issue of @Perspectives_T, edited by @joel_busher & @ToreBjorgo My article attempts to explain the trajectory of Hayʾat Tahrir al-Sham, conceptualizing it as a process of “downward scale shift” universiteitleiden.nl/perspe…

In a recent video, JAS (Boko Haram) seemed to be trying rather hard to copy ISIS WA, a faction that remains much stronger in the Lake Chad area. A few interesting weapons seen, such as Dragunov SVD (Rarely seen or used locally) and the Zastava M21, used by Cameroon and captured.

Interesting @HumAngle_ thread on how to designate the violent groups operating in NW Nigeria, which do not seem to fight under a jihadi banner. Groups are indeed so large and violent and overbearing that banditry fails to capture what they are.

Defining The Massacres In North West Nigeria [THREAD]

Three years ago we published the special issue on “Academic Freedom”, which marked the relaunch of IdPS. Since then we have published 40 articles, 33 book reviews, all in #openaccess. Our documents have been downloaded over than 50k times. Thanks to our authors and reviewers!