Work in progress
“How and when in-conflict amnesty affects conflict termination”
This article draws on a database of amnesty laws to examine whether amnesties offered during civil conflicts make a negotiated settlement or government victory more likely. Under review with Journal of Conflict Resolution
“Expected and unexpected consequences of in-conflict amnesty”
Under review with International Studies Quarterly
“The strategic use of amnesty during civil war”
Under review with Conflict Management and Peace Science
Political Violence
Co-edited volume with Martijn Vlaskamp, under contract with Tecnos, in Spanish. This edited volume brings together some of the best current scholars on political violence to create an accessible graduate-level overview of the what, how, why, when and what for of various types of political violence. The book includes chapters on mass violence, genocide and ethnic cleansing by Martin Shaw, civil war dynamics by Laia Balcells, terrorism by Luis de la Calle, and state violence by Abel Escribà Folch.
Policy work
Report on the use of amnesty in civil wars
Produced for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue as an expert paper for use with reference to the peace process in Ukraine
On-going funded research projects
Minority rights and the stability of post-conflict environments (as Principal Investigator)
This project examines the impact of identity concessions, such as rights to language, or recognition of a separate culture, on subsequent post-conflict developments. Is the peace more stable? What are the mechanisms through which these concessions have an impact?
AXA Research Fund Postdoctoral Grant
Expectations and effects of regional independence: A comparison of Catalonia and Scotland (as Principal Investigator)
This project uses survey experiments to examine the choices and compromises at a micro-level around independence.
Team: Laia Balcells, Alex Kuo, José Fernandez-Albertos
Public events
Expert panel in responses to play “Quietly [En Veu Baixa]” by Owen McCafferty, a play about the meeting between and ex-terrorist and his victim in a Belfast bar, Teatre Lliure, Barcelona, 12/5/2016