We had an excellent presentation from, and discussion with, @WheelerICCS and @CervasioChiara on their fantastic work with Mark Saunders, where they are developing a model to capture the process from distrust to trust and applying it to the 1998-1999 Lahore Peace Process.

David Curran (Coventry University) and Lucia Frigo (Royal Holloway) will also be present!.

A few of our members will be presenting at #BISA2025 in Belfast this week!. If you are at the conference and interested in anything trust-related, do head over to hear our fantastic friends present their work. Also, happy 50th anniversary to @MYBISA!

Catherine Jones, David Morris, Susana Borges and Nina Frohme also in attendance.

We had a great gathering today, where we touched base on the research the group has been conducting this year and what they have planned for the future. It was good to celebrate successes (publications) and share frustrations over work-in-progress and grant applications!

@eleya_n.

We had a great discussion today as members of our group shared how their different research-focused projects (articles/book proposals/research grants) are developing, outlining the challenges and opportunities that exist in connecting their research on trust in IR within IR.

There is a great @isanet event coming up! @DrEszterSimon and @DrDavidJWilcox will be co-hosting alongside a stellar line-up of speakers: Andrew Kydd, Deborah Larson, @WheelerICCS , @vckeating . Register here:

@DrDavidJWilcox, Catherine Jones, David Morris, James Driscoll, and Susana Ferreira Borges also present.

We had a great discussion today about future plans for our informal network and how we can develop our collaborative outputs. Great to hear all the emerging ideas and to see the collaborative dynamic we developed since 2020-21 at work! . Watch this space.

A few of our network will be at #ISA2025 in Chicago this coming week. If you are interested in trust research in international relations, why not pop along to one of these panels where some of our friends and colleagues will be presenting their research.

We had a fruitful discussion today on the next steps for our network of trust researchers within (or with an interest in) the discipline of International Relations. Watch this space!. If you are doing research on trust (or related concepts we would love to connect with you.

We are expanding our social media presence. So if you are also using BlueSky, follow us there at @trust-ir.bsky.social.

@ratcliffe_jenny was also present!.

We had an insightful discussion on the opportunities and challenges facing us as IR scholars when it comes to policy engagement and impact. It was a great opportunity for us to share experiences and learn from one another as we seek to share our research as broadly as possible.

David Morris (UoB) and Catherine Jones (St. Andrews) also in attendance.

Though we were only a few, we still had a great discussion about the use of Game Theory and associated models in the study of trust/cooperation in IR. In particular we reflected (through the experiences of playing monopoly) how factors outside the games are brought into them.

We are seeking a couple of papers on trust/distrust (or related concepts) to fill a panel for #BISA2025. If you know any IR scholars who would be interested in participating in this panel, please contact @DrDavidJWilcox . @MYBISA.

Catherine Jones and Dorothy Noyes also in attendance.

We had a fascinating presentation from @BotaSharipova1 on "Trust in transboundary water cooperation". Our discussion covered different levels of analysis, theorizing social trust, the potential for several papers to emerge from this research, and lots of literature suggestions!