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Social and behavioral science can deepen our understanding of what led to different wars and conflicts across the globe. This collection of research covers topics that underlie different wars and conflicts, shares analyses of some of the global powers, humanitarian crises, land dispossession, and more.

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Accounting History
Editors' Choice: Accounting, Accountants and World War Two
Carolyn Cordery, Carolyn Fowler and Laura Maran
Cooperation and Conflict
Special Issue: Status Symbols in World Politics
Paul Beaumont and Pål Røren
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
Special Issue: “Eastern Europe” at War: A New Kidnapping
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Armed Forces & Society
Special Issue: Symposium on the Afghanistan War
Conflict Management and Peace Science
Special Issue: The Conditions for War and Peace in Interstate Crises - A Festschrift in Honor of Frank C. Zagare
International Political Science Review
Special Issue: Change in armed conflict
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Critical nature-society relations in Palestine/Israel: A Virtual Special issue
Human Geography
Special Issue: Spaces of Palestine solidarity
American Behavioral Scientist
Special Issue: WAR IN UKRAINE
European Journal of International Relations
EJIR Articles with Relevance to the Current War in Ukraine

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The Psychological Toll of War and Forced Displacement in Gaza: A Study on Anxiety, PTSD, and Depression

  • Belal Aldabbour
  • Mariam El-Jamal
  • Amal Abuabada
  • Aseel Al-Dardasawi
  • Eman Abusedo
  • Huda Abu Daff
  • Hala Al-Saqqa
  • Doaa Abu Helal
  • Rawan Abu Radwan
  • Rola El-Hindawi
  • Mariam Hamada
  • Wafaa Abu Khader
  • Latefa Ali Dardas
Chronic Stress
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Factors limiting women’s adherence to venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after cesarean section in the Gaza Strip: A cross-sectional study

  • Belal Aldabbour
  • Ola Abu Sidgh
  • Israa Haboush
  • Eman Jalhum
  • Shimaa Alsmary
  • Sara Irheem
  • Samah Elamassie
  • Mohammad Zimmo
  • Mohammad Dabour Asad
Phlebology
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Palestinian Poet-Singers: Celebration Under Israel’s Military Rule 1948–1966

  • Marwan Darweish
  • Craig Robertson
Alternatives
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Struggling and Overcoming Daily Life Barriers Among Children With Congenital Heart Disease and Their Parents in the West Bank, Palestine

  • Kawther Elissa
  • Carina Sparud-Lundin
  • Åsa B. Axelsson
  • Salam Khatib
  • Ewa-Lena Bratt
Journal of Family Nursing
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Structural Competency in Conflict Zones: Challenging Depoliticization in Israel

  • Zvika Orr
  • Shifra Unger
Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice
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Meeting Report
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On Indigenous Refusal against Externally-Imposed Frameworks in Historic Palestine

  • Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal
Millennium
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Futuristic vision for Palestine

  • Haidar Eid
Human Geography
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The (Im)possibility of Achieving a Peaceful Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  • Ghazi-Walid Falah
Human Geography
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A People’s Sea: Palestine and Popular Thalassopolitics in the Mediterranean Sea

  • Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
Millennium
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Laughing at power: Humor, transgression, and the politics of refusal in Palestine

  • Lisa Bhungalia
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
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Divergent visions: Intersectional water advocacy in Palestine

  • Emily McKee
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Patterns of Silence: French Witnesses of Nazi Crimes in Occupied Ukraine

  • Paula Chan
Journal of Contemporary History
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Other
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Democratisation in EU Foreign Policy: The Cases of Belarus, Turkey and Ukraine

  • Lucie Tungul
  • Petr Hlaváček
  • Tereza Soušková
  • Marek Ženíšek
European View
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Ukraine and Putin’s Post-Soviet Imperialism

  • Ursula Woolley
Political Insight
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Civil–Military Relations and Russia’s Post-Soviet Military Culture: A Belief System Analysis

  • Kirill Shamiev
Armed Forces & Society
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Review article
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Poland versus Russia: Competition in Ukraine

  • Andrzej Szeptycki
East European Politics and Societies
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“Decentralize or Else”: Russia’s Use of Offensive Coercive Diplomacy against Ukraine

  • Eray Alim
World Affairs
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The Foreign Policy of the Baltic States and the Ukrainian Crisis: A Case of Europeanization?

  • Maili Vilson
New Perspectives
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Russia’s rising military and communication power: From Chechnya to Crimea

  • James Rodgers
  • Alexander Lanoszka
Media, War & Conflict

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‘All I have are fragments’: Ephemera and cultural memory in contemporary historical fiction about the First World War

  • Ann-Marie Einhaus
Literature & History
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Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019

  • Sidita Kushi
  • Monica Duffy Toft
Journal of Conflict Resolution
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A Typology of Rebel Political Institutional Arrangements

  • Zachariah Mampilly
  • Megan A. Stewart
Journal of Conflict Resolution
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UNDERSTANDING GRAY ZONE WARFARE FROM MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES

  • Tahir Mahmood Azad
  • Muhammad Waqas Haider
  • Muhammad Sadiq
World Affairs
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Rebel Justice during Armed Conflict

  • Cyanne E. Loyle
Journal of Conflict Resolution
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Organized violence 1989–2020, with a special emphasis on Syria

  • Therése Pettersson
  • Shawn Davies
  • Amber Deniz
  • Garoun Engström
  • Nanar Hawach
  • Stina Högbladh
  • Margareta Sollenberg
  • Magnus Öberg
Journal of Peace Research
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The History and Current Killings of Polio Vaccinators in Pakistan: A Need for Targeted Surveillance Strategy

  • Braira Wahid
  • Babita Kumari
  • Khaled Mohammed Saifullah
  • Muhammad Idrees
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health

Open Access
Letter
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Public Health: A Tool to Quell Violence and War

  • Vaishnavi Bhamidi
  • Laila Rahman
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
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Toward a Politics of Care: Southeast Asian Refugee Organizing, Kinship, Care, and Reunion

  • James Huỳnh
  • Victoria Huỳnh
  • mads lê
  • Sheila Sy
Health Promotion Practice
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Music and the politics of the past: Kizito Mihigo and music in the commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

  • David Mwambari
Memory Studies
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Epistemological resistance towards diversality: teaching community psychology as a decolonial project

  • Ronelle Carolissen
  • Hugo Canham
  • Eduard Fourie
  • Tanya Graham
  • Puleng Segalo
  • Brett Bowman
South African Journal of Psychology

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The Logic of “War on Deforestation”: A Military Response to Climate Change in the Colombian Amazon

  • Juan Corredor-Garcia
  • Fernando López Vega
Alternatives
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“To Whom the Sirens Wail.” Poland’s Post-2022 Geopolitical Debates on Central and “Eastern Europe”

  • Aliaksei Kazharski
Alternatives
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When worlds collide: Socio-political conflict in patient care

  • Robert E. McKinney
  • Thomas W. Bishop
The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
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Borderland Political Regimes in Latin America

  • Haroldo Dilla Alfonso
  • Karen Hansen Figueroa
Latin American Perspectives

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International trade and cyber conflict: Decomposing the effect of trade on state-sponsored cyber attacks

  • William Akoto
Journal of Peace Research

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Researching wartime rape in Eastern Congo: why we should continue to talk to survivors?

  • Sahla Aroussi
Qualitative Research
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Working with survivors of war rape and sexual violence: fieldwork reflections from Bosnia-Hercegovina

  • Janine Natalya Clark
Qualitative Research

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Humour under occupation: Jokes and humorous anecdotes and their reflections in Palestine

  • Noura Kamal
European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Editorial
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The Battle for the Truth: Social Media Versus Critical Appraisal

  • Achilles Thoma
Plastic Surgery
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Government-Controlled Mass Media as an Obstacle to Health Policy Making: The Case of Iran

  • Atefeh Aghaei
  • Mohammad Mahdi Mowlaei
International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services
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Vulnerability to the Effects of Conflicting Health Information: Testing the Moderating Roles of Trust in News Media and Research Literacy

  • Rebekah H. Nagler
  • Rachel I. Vogel
  • Alexander J. Rothman
  • Marco C. Yzer
  • Sarah E. Gollust
Health Education & Behavior
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Journalism in conflict-affected societies: Professional roles and influences in Cyprus

  • Sanem Şahin
Media, War & Conflict
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Discussing conflict in social media: The use of Twitter in the Jammu and Kashmir conflict

  • Sabrina Gabel
  • Lilian Reichert
  • Christian Reuter
Media, War & Conflict
Open Access
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A politics of conviction: The refusal of colonial carcerality in Palestinian graffiti

  • Jamal Nabulsi
Human Geography
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‘They say we are all zombies’: Rethinking the role of audiences in a mediatized international conflict

  • Triin Vihalemm
  • Jānis Juzefovičs
Global Media and Communication
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Counting bodies, preventing war: Future conflict and the ethics of fatality numbers

  • Johanna Rodehau-Noack
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
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Forensic conflict studies: Making sense of war in the social media age

  • Jakob Hauter
Media, War & Conflict
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Vertical interference: video, drone witnessing, and the myth of precision targeting

  • Hugo Ljungbäck
Media, War & Conflict

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You start where you are: Literary spaces of Palestine solidarity

  • Anna Bernard
Human Geography
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BDS as the baseline of solidarity: toward a model of co-struggling with Palestinians in their movement for justice and liberation

  • Ramah Awad
Human Geography
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The academic boycott movement: A reflection on cross-border solidarity and lockdown

  • Sunaina Maira
Human Geography

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Weaponizing Urban Development: Critical Geographies of Militarism in Rio de Janeiro

  • Frank I. Müller
Alternatives
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“A thorn in their throat” planning for settler colonial removal in hizma

  • Noura Erakat
Human Geography
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Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction

  • Irus Braverman
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
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Privatizing the production of settler colonial landscapes: ‘Authenticity’ and imaginative geography in Wadi Al-Salib, Haifa

  • Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
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E-scaping apartheid: Digital ventures of Zionist settler colonialism

  • Ivana Bevilacqua
Human Geography
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“A thorn in their throat” planning for settler colonial removal in hizma

  • Noura Erakat
Human Geography

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Frozen conflicts in world politics: A new dataset

  • Kamil Christoph Klosek
  • Vojtěch Bahenský
  • Michal Smetana
  • Jan Ludvík
Journal of Peace Research
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Nigerian Troops in the War Against Boko Haram: The Civilian–Military Leadership Interest Convergence Thesis

  • Temitope B. Oriola
Armed Forces & Society

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Radical Self-Representation in a Hostile Setting: Discursive Strategies of the Russian Lesbian Feminist Movement

  • Oxana R. Mikhaylova
  • Galina V. Gradoselskaya
Social Media + Society

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Lactation Newsmakers: Documenting our History–The Current State of Breastfeeding in Ukraine: An Interview With Lidiia Romanenko and Olha Shlemkevych

  • Lidiia Romanenko
  • Olha Shlemkevych
  • Maryse Arendt
Journal of Human Lactation

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