Publications

2024: Lesley-Ann Daniels with Laia Balcells and Alexander Kuo. Territorial disputes and affective polarizationEuropean Journal of Political Research63(3), 906-926. Best Paper Award 2024, Institute for the Study of Self-Government

2024: Lesley-Ann Daniels with Marc Sanjaume-Calvet. An Inflection Point or Business as Usual? Secessionism as State Contestation in Ukraine. Global Studies Quarterly4(2), ksae030.

2024: Lesley-Ann Daniels with Marc Sanjaume-Calvet and Pau Bossacoma Busquets Territorial Conflict in the Spotlight: Unveiling Paths to Territorial ClarityPublius: The Journal of Federalism, pjae023.

2024: Lesley-Ann Daniels and Virginia Zalunardo. The impact of thin and thick truth: The limits of truth commission design in polarized societiesJournal of Human Rights (2024): 1-18.

2023: Lesley-Ann Daniels with Laia Balcells and Alexander Kuo The “weight” of territorial issues: Evidence from Catalonia, Scotland and Northern Ireland Comparative Politics (forthcoming)

2021: Lesley-Ann Daniels, Alexander Kuo: Brexit and territorial preferences: Evidence from Scotland and Northern Ireland Publius–The Journal of Federalism, 51(2): 186-211

2021: Lesley-Ann Daniels: Stick then carrot: When do governments give amnesty during civil war? International Studies Quarterly, 65(2): 401-408

2021: Political Violence (Violencia Política) co-edited volume with Martijn Vlaskamp, Madrid: 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.

2020: Lesley-Ann Daniels. How and when amnesty during conflict affects conflict terminationJournal of Conflict Resolution64(9), 1612-1637.

2018: Lesley-Ann Daniels. The International Criminal Court and the Rebels’ Commitment Problem. Civil Wars 20(4): 455-476

2016: Lesley-Ann Daniels with Laia Balcells and Abel Escribà Folch. The determinants of low-intensity intergroup violence: The case of Northern IrelandJournal of Peace Research 53(1): 33-48 
Honorable Mention 2015 Best Paper Award, Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association

2016: Lesley-Ann Daniels. Tras el Velo del Antiterrorismo Revista CIDOB d’Afars Internacionals 112: 255-257

2011: Lesley-Ann Daniels Segregation and the onset of civil war International Catalan Institute for Peace Working paper 2011/7, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2033141

Blogposts and media

2022: magazine article: Lesley-Ann Daniels Coronavirus and conflict: truces at times of crisis do not lead to peace on their own The Conversation

2019: magazine article: Lesley-Ann Daniels Why is peace failing in the Philippines? The Conversation https://theconversation.com/why-is-peace-failing-in-the-philippines-114675

2016: Blogpost: Lesley-Ann Daniels Peace with Justice in Colombia: Why the ICC isn’t the Guarantor Justice in Conflict https://justiceinconflict.org/2016/10/13/peace-with-justice-in-colombia-why-the-icc-isnt-the-guarantor/

2015: Blogpost: Lesley-Ann Daniels, with Laia Balcells and Abel Escribà-Folch, Does Segregation Work to Prevent Ethnic Violence? Not in Northern Ireland. Political Violence @ a Glance http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/11/30/does-segregation-work-to-prevent-ethnic-violence-not-in-northern-ireland/