Blair Welsh

We’re very thankful to all those who helped us get this to the publication stage!

We also recently wrote a short policy brief for @GLD_Gothenburg based on this project: gld.gu.se/en/gld-publica….

New paper in @ISQ_Jrnl with @PrabinBahadur. We study the reintegration of women and children during conflict. Our survey experiment in Somalia shows the public are more accepting of women and children, particularly those wedded to al-Shabaab fighters. 🔗 academic.oup.com/isq/article/70…

@doyoung_gong @HarvardWCFIA Congratulations!

Graduated! So grateful to share these moments with the best advisor, mentors, family, and friends. I will be joining @HarvardWCFIA for AY 2026-2027 as a postdoctoral fellow while on leave from the University of Western Ontario as an AP!

Congratulations, Dr! We’re so excited to welcome you here @WesternU soon!

🚀 New paper alert! 🚀 What are the attitudinal and behavioral legacies of exposure to wartime violence on social and political life? In a new article in the APSR (@apsrjournal), I present a meta-analysis of 172 studies across 50+ countries that speaks to this question. 🧵

We’re also hiring in Comparative and Canadian: uwo.ca/facultyrelatio…

🚨 My department @WesternU is hiring up to two TT Assistant Professors in International Politics (IR/CP). I’m not on the search committee, but I’ll be at APSA next week — happy to chat & answer questions! App. info: uwo.ca/facultyrelatio… #psjminfo #poliscijobs @womenalsoknow

📢 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop Fall 2025 PhD students, postdocs & junior faculty: Present your research/practice job talk! 🗓️ Virtual: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 1pm ET 📝 Deadline: Aug 14 Apply: iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eQ…

Super thankful to all who commented on previous drafts, fantastic RAs, as well as the reviewers, Editors, and team @cmpseditors!

Overall, the research draws further attention to victims of political violence and (in a rather timely manner) the dynamics of concessions over hostages in civil war.

When do governments grant concessions for the release of hostages? Excited to share my article on hostage concessions in civil war is now published in @cmpseditors. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07… @NYUAD_SocialSci @NYUAbuDhabi @rebgov A small thread on findings:

The Concentration Camps (CCamp) Dataset is finally out at JPR! This started as a research project back in 2019 and became my dissertation. I'm super proud of the work @theBraith and @Dan_E_Solo put into this - I'm looking forward to others finally getting to use these data!