Owen Frazer

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Owen Frazer

Owen Frazer

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Senior Advisor Conflict Transformation @Helvetas. Formerly @BerghofFnd, @CSS_Zurich & @ICRC. Tweeting on conflict, development and how we can all get along.

Zurich, Switzerland Katılım Kasım 2009
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Richard Gowan
Richard Gowan@RichardGowan1·
This very good thread could be applied to international engagement in a lot of places... delete "Ukraine" and add in the place of your choice. The difference is that Ukraine, confident it has backing from big Western donors, has been firmer at calling the internationals out.
Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov

What’s wrong with international development agencies in Ukraine? My list of top fundamental errors that are committed to 1. Obsession with control 1/

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Is music the greatest thing we will ever create?
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War-making as bad parenting: "Wars are like children – you create one, offer scant effort, then call it botched as the years accrue, go off and make a new one with somebody else. A chance to finally get it right." - Natalie Shapero
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Owen Frazer@ofrazer·
"Conflict sensitivity...should lead us to...consider whether the practices we employ genuinely incentivise the kinds of change we want to see.” Thought-provoking read that links #conflictsensitivity to the #decolonization and #localization agendas in the aid sector.
Saferworld@Saferworld

How can we make sure #conflictsensitivity practices are less of a technical, box-ticking exercise & more of a political effort to address structural inequalities? Find out in this @DipDsaa article by @AlastairCarr @staraboulsi @RahmaDafeedow @TimSaferworld bit.ly/3BsgJ8B

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Owen Frazer@ofrazer·
✓ "The peacemaking community don't know how important they are to the fight against climate change" ✓ "Who is going to represent nature at the table?" ✓ Inner peace is the fundamental basis for tackling climate change Thought-provoking stuff from @SimonJAMason & @OliviaLazard
Simon J. A. Mason@SimonJAMason

Climate change, conflict and peacemaking: challenges are truely frightening. Thanks to @OliviaLazard for bringing some hope through the regeneration angle. @CSS_Zurich

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Timo R. Stewart
Timo R. Stewart@TimoStewart·
As a lot of people are discussing #Finland joining #NATO, I'll post a few thoughts explaining Finnish perspectives and the debate we've had over here. I'll try to avoid the usual foreign and security policy jargon, but I am a historian, so guess where we'll start. 🧵
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Owen Frazer@ofrazer·
An important thread on hate speech
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Owen Frazer@ofrazer·
@vmorkevicius Thank you for this thoughtful thread and a serious engagement with arguments on both sides.
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Valerie Morkevičius
Valerie Morkevičius@vmorkevicius·
The argument (from both the left & the right, & from both secular & religious perspectives) that the ethical thing to do is to pressure Ukraine to make peace sooner rather than later, and to eschew military aid for humanitarian aid has been getting a lot of attention lately. /1
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Owen Frazer@ofrazer·
@ian_d_quick Establish clear criteria based on your personal situation. Mine: no compulsory taught courses, distance-learning, supervisor with a foot in both research and practice who is likable and interested, low fees.
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Ian D. Quick
Ian D. Quick@ian_d_quick·
Quick question for my academic peoples: What's the best advice you got on choosing *where* to do a PhD?
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Owen Frazer@ofrazer·
Why is negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine so difficult and what might help? @ValerieSticher cuts to the heart of the matter with this excellent piece 👏
Valerie Sticher@ValerieSticher

Zelensky is an incredibly effective wartime leader. But mobilizing for peace may pose a more formidable challenge than mobilizing for war. My thoughts on a 🇺🇦🇷🇺 settlement in @PVGlance, based on @Journal_of_GSS article on tinyurl.com/CostlyConcessi… @UCIGCC tinyurl.com/2p9xjspz

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Owen Frazer@ofrazer·
This new book on #AdaptiveMediation promises helpful insights on the practicalities of putting local ownership and sustainability at the centre of peacemaking. And it is #openaccess, so free to download!
Cedric de Coning@CedricdeConing

This is a thread about our new book #AdaptiveMediation and Conflict Resolution: Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria, edited with Ako Muto & Rui Saraiva of JICA ➡️link.springer.com/book/978303092… #OpenAccess @Palgrave @SpringerNature #SDG series

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Gov Clayton
Gov Clayton@GovClayton·
Over the past 10 years, I have read 100+ books on negotiation and communication. Truth is, 90% of them were a waste of time. So if you want to upgrade your communication, let me save you the effort. Here's 9 books that will change your life 🧵👇
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ICRC@ICRC·
We’ve received thousands of questions on the Geneva Conventions. So, we’re going to break down the rules of war you need to know right now. All states have signed these – and are legally obligated to follow them. Thread 👇
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Gov Clayton@GovClayton·
What is the problem that most often comes up in your life?
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Owen Frazer@ofrazer·
What's the one thing you can change about how you interact with the world that would improve the quality of your life? Asking for a friend.
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Owen Frazer@ofrazer·
Important argument for how we should think about extremism. Key implication: stop treating extremism as a pathology or a mindset. Engagement in extreme violence can be explained by conventional explanations for violence: fear, enemy images and defence of a way of life.
Jonathan Leader Maynard@jleadermaynard

What is Extremism? Not what we're usually told. For a summary of some of my relevant research on this, check out the video of my 'Rethinking Extremism' talk at @LMU_Muenchen on 11 Feb 2022. Perhaps an apt day to release this given #RussiaUkraineCrisis jleadermaynard.com/1/post/2022/02…

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