In the past four months, we have published 11 peer-reviewed, open-access research articles on policy relevant peace, security, and development issues. All articles are available for free here: https://www.stabilityjournal.org/articles/  (THREAD)

Christine Chinkin, Mary Kaldor and Punam Yadav @LSE_WPS @LSEGenderTweet introduced our Special Collection with @LSE on 'Gender and New Wars': http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.733 

Through a novel analytical framework using symbiotic relationships, Adam Day ( @AdamDayNYC) & Charlie Hunt ( @CharlieKwame) proposed "a relational approach" to #UN #stabilisation operations, using case studies of #Mali & #DRC: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.727 

Shannon Zimmerman ( @ZimmZone) argued for "renewed conversations in the #UN as to how state authority is understood & supported by UN #peace operations" inc "addressing the a priori expectations around the capacity and legitimacy of host states" http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.762  #CAR #Mali

Sidney Leclerq ( @sidney_lq) & Geoffroy Matagne examined national and local security governance in #BurkinaFaso, centred on the case study of the #Koglweogo self-defence group: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.716  #Security #Governance

In her analysis of youth #gangs in post war, Katie Kerr warned that "strengthening ties between youth gangs and #Colombia’s illicit economies, mediated by adult-run criminal networks, increase gang numbers and violence": http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.720 

Tarila Marclint Ebiede, Arnim Langer @KU_Leuven, & @jale_tosun @UniHeidelberg analysed the Post-Amnesty Programme ( #PAP), a #DDR program introduced in #Nigeria in 2009: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.752 

. @nik_parent @mcgillgeography wrote about #refugees, voluntary #repatriation & #peacebuilding, and introduced ethnographic mapping to "collect spatial and narrative information in tandem and across cultural groups living in refugee camps": http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.772 

. @DebMayersen examined communal self-protection during #genocide through the experiences of Armenians at Musa Dagh during the 1915 Armenian genocide, Tutsi at Bisesero during the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and Yazidis in Sinjar during the 2014 Yazidi genocide: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.740 

Using geo-coded aid data at the sub-national level in five sub-Saharan African countries @JosiahMarineau & @mgfindley discussed whether bilateral & multilateral aid donors target poverty, and whether donor coordination improves the quality of aid targeting http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.669 

Carla King, Sabine Lee ( @SL1935), & Susan Andrea Bartels ( @susanabartels) examined community perceptions and experiences of sexual exploitation and abuse by #UN peace keepers in #Haiti: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.766  #MINUSTAH

Finally, @madhavjoshind investigated whether one-sided violence creates a "negative cascading effect on the success of peace agreement implementation?" and if so, how such violence can "be contained to safeguard the implementation process": http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.774 

Many thanks to the authors for their excellent contributions to these timely debates, to our anonymous peer reviewers for their precious feedback, and...

to our fantastic editorial assistants @DibbCharlotte Nimmi Augustine @thomasdournon and Dulce Calderón Noguez for expertly managing the peer review process (End of thread)