Honoured to be giving evidence on the UK's approach to countering terrorism overseas tomorrow. For those of you in London, come along! Otherwise do follow the @Remote_Warfare team's furious live-tweeting, or tune in here:

#SaveTheDate: 30th September 2021 #NSFACOE presents its publication on promoting the Rule of Law and Good Governance and how the main International Organizations are involved in supporting this initiative Read more on our website: https://t.co/0GtkDjCeyE @NATO #NATO #WeAreNATO

You add "anti sexual fatigue" and you think 🤔 should I actually drink this?

Let this be a lesson to all of you out there market shopping. Always read the full label! You see "anti-fatigue" and think "yes, I am tired". I am happy to put this in my tea.

But please send more ideas my way, and perhaps I'll add to this thread as ideas come to me!

Last one off the top of my head is the @WomenforWomen "Beyond Consultations" tool which is all about promoting meaningful engagement of women in fragile and conflict-affected states in research, programming, and all levels of decision-making:

Also a huge shout-out to @GroundTruthSol and @UNmigration for a gem on interviewing bias - lots of takeaways in there about how the ethnicity of interviewers matters, and why it's best to ask locals to formulate the questions (rather than translating!):

I'm reading everything I can get on Participatory Action Research at the moment. It's full of ideas of how to recognise the expertise of local communities in both research & programming. Love this one from @UNDP and @intalert, also lots from @USIP & more:

A few people yesterday were asking about non-traditional methodologies for examining security interventions. I'm not an academic so this is dangerous territory, but I thought I'd share a few things that I've found helpful- please send me more reading that you would recommend too!

Super excited to be part of this one! You still have 21 minutes to sign up, if you haven't already⏰

Thanks to @CivCenter for hosting such a great discussion on implementing IHL and protecting civilians during the pandemic. If anyone in my Twittersphere has best practices they want to share from their own work please get in touch - I'm collecting them for a report out soon-ish!

8/8 In the meantime, I hope that the president’s announcement that he will appear before parliament on Saturday to discuss the electoral process brings some calm, and that peaceful negotiations prevail:

7/8 Please someone cheer me up and tell me that it actually is and I’m missing it. I would be genuinely delighted! I’m looking at you @whitneygrespin, @PDWilliamsGWU, @Charlie533080, @BPST_A, others!

6/8 But I can’t help but wonder when addressing security sector fragmentation will feature more heavily (if not centrally!) in the design process for security force assistance/defence capacity building/train-advise-assist in fragile contexts, because it really really should.

5/8 And obviously, international efforts at security force assistance are a small piece of a much bigger puzzle here and it’s faaaar from a simple cause and effect (very much recommend this @CrisisGroup piece that set me thinking: https://t.co/KerE6kcrLJ)

4/8 The focus on tactical training that wasn’t designed to build better relationships across the fragmented security sector (@JaharaMatisek and I have more on that here, sorry about the paywall: https://t.co/cEcKbQer9w)

3/8 The relative successes of training elite forces, despite worries that they weren’t able to deploy everywhere due to resistance from local power brokers

2/8 The challenges of creating a cohesive ‘national’ force, highlighted through the recurring theme of training local units who paid little attention to communication or commands from Mogadishu

1/8 As different parts of the Somali National Army clashed in #Mogadishu over contested elections, I returned to my notes from interviews with international military trainers from 2016-2020 and... it's sort of there from the beginning. A few (paraphrased!) thoughts:

Thanks @austingcommons! I will have to offer virtual beers in return for now, but hopefully real beverages will be an option in the not-to-distant future... 🍻

Looking so forward to our Workshop on Security Assistance in the Middle East 20th April @MEDirections! With fantastic lineup @KarimMakdisi @emad_badi @knowles_em @andreas_krieg @HelleMalmvig @EliasDJyousif @PWezeman @Maria_L_Clausen +++