After the Dnipro train station strike killed 14, a foreign fighter told me it's absurd how much traction this war has lost; anywhere else in Europe it would be world news. The people living it know what recovery requires. What would you want to know from them? #UkraineWar #Dnipro
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A volunteer chooses the role & brings the self into it. A conscript has the role handed to them. As Ukraine ends automatic exemptions for critical industries (@KyivIndependent), who returns home, & what does service leave of the self? kyivindependent.com/ukraine-… #ukraine #UkraineWar
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Ukraine's labor shortage and its 1.8M veterans are usually treated as separate problems. The evidence is still thin, but veterans tend to stay where employers prepare them. Start by comparing veteran turnover with companywide rates. #ukraine #HeroyamSlava #UkraineWar
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For modern warfare readiness, a military medic in Ukraine told me: don’t fear radical change, be flexible, all you know will change. Many institutions responsible for readiness are the antithesis. But readiness is coming home from the front lines now. Bring it in day 1. #ukraine
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For reintegration programming, we plan for work, housing & families. But people carry scripts written to survive. In a long war those rules harden into habits, and the habits outlast the threat. What does it take to help someone put down a rule that kept them alive? #ukraine
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For frontline & veteran care: the body and the mind arrive together at the first point of care. But they leave in separate files. A medic at a stabilization point in Ukraine told me his job includes being a psychologist. Where does that handoff break down in your system?#ukraine
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For veteran reintegration, a frontline medic in Ukraine shared his goals after service: "Thank you for your service. And that's it." No proof required, no parade. But if only veterans are in the room, you may be missing half of the challenge. #ukraine
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For military medicine, manuals should be written by those closest to the wound. A medic in Ukraine said they used to look to TCCC & the Joint Trauma System. Now they could write it. If you publish clinical guidance, how are the soldiers producing the cases involved? #ukraine
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For reintegration, the fullest tribute to the fallen is care for the living. In Ukraine, the faces of heroes line the streets - rightly so. But recognition should also reach those coming (and at) home. How would you want to be remembered? #Ukraine #veterans #reintegration
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For DDR and reintegration: after the war, everyone has to learn to be together again. A few days ago, the Academy of Sciences in Kyiv was on every screen. But now it's somebody's commute to work. How do you help a whole society do that? #DDR #Ukraine #reintegration
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For DDR and reintegration: after the war, everyone has to learn to be together again. A few days ago, the Academy of Sciences in Kyiv was on every screen. But now it's somebody's commute to work. How do you help a whole society do that? #DDR #Ukraine #reintegration
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Amnesty for Houthi defectors is new. Trust in tribal safe-exit networks isn't: 126 of 400 Yemenis call it very likely tribes can move someone out of Ansar Allah unharmed, the strongest score in our survey. Tiny Journal #02
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Much cohesion programming targets political grievance. But the daily mechanism is smaller: you hear a language you don't speak, & assume you're being talked about. Suspicion lives in ordinary moments, which is where repair has to work too. #southsudan
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Much funding for social cohesion builds a new convening mechanism: a committee, a dialogue, a workshop. But communities already convene themselves. The more effective work is removing what blocks those practices, & funding them before the logic model & metrics harden. #southsudan
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1/ Would a Yemeni tribe take back someone who leaves Ansar Allah (the Houthi movement)? A Corioli Institute survey asked 400 Yemenis across 7 governorates. 276 said they definitely or probably would.
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2/ Only 115 said definitely. The expectation is common, but rarely held with full conviction. One respondent in Hajjah said a sheikh standing publicly w/ the returnee turns "an individual issue into a collective commitment."
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Armed groups don't recruit through ideology alone. Thailand's BRN operates across many networks—armed, political, religious, community. Recruitment flows through different social roles. Exit programs must therefore create credible alternatives. tinyurl.com/bdesyvsh
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At U. Católica (Culiacán), audience responses reshaped social cohesion policy in real time. They named contextually relevant cohesion signals—not "best practices". The gap between academia and lived experience is where the work happens. #participatoryapproaches #SocialCohesiom
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New survey of Ukrainians in Poland: 44% plan to stay abroad several years, 26% forever. uncertainty is draining—in 2022, 37% were unsure; now, only 23%. Return is a capacity, not a wish. Capacity either gets built up or depleted over time.
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