The findings from the RCTs, further explored with the tools of textual analysis and qualitative interviews, intend to shed light on the key mechanisms and conditions that may allow for digital technologies and social media to bridge rather than widen cleavages, even within areas in which divisions reign. Her dissertation projects include social media deprivation experiments during conflict commemoration days within two empirically understudied contexts (Bosnia and Herzegovina Cyprus), as well as a consensus-building online intervention. With her dissertation, "Growing Closer or Further Apart: Essays on Identity, Social Media and Conflict", Asimovic strives to move away from social media determinism by both identifying the conditions under which exposure to social media shapes levels of affective polarization within ethnically polarized societies and developing scalable strategies that would facilitate positive interethnic contact online. “Growing Closer or Further Apart: Exposure to Social Media in Post-Conflict Societies.” Candidate | New York University, Department of Politics Nejla Asimovic (USIP-Minerva Peace and Security Scholar Fellow) He has also written articles for the Monkey Cage of the Washington Post. His articles have been published in Conflict Management and Peace Science, Research & Politics, Journal of Global Security Studies, and Nations & Nationalism. Peyman’s dissertation examines the causes, effectiveness, and consequences of foreign states’ diplomatic support for protest movements. While his primary regional focus is West Asia, his research addresses broad questions and involves a variety of contexts around the world. His research focus is on domestic and international sources of contentious politics. Candidate in the School of Politics and Global Studies. Does diplomatic support contribute to the success of movements or undermines them? The final question is about the public response to foreign diplomatic support: how does the public in target countries respond to foreign support? This question seeks to understand whether diplomatic support increases sympathy for political campaigns and helps them to mobilize further, or it damages their public image and as a result, undermines campaigns’ mobilizational capacity. First, why do states provide diplomatic support for protest movements in other countries? The second question asks about the effectiveness of diplomatic support. More specifically, it seeks to address three general interrelated questions around the central concept of diplomatic support for protest movements. Peyman’s dissertation focuses on the causes, effectiveness, and consequences of diplomatic support for protest movements.
“Diplomatic Support for Protest Movements: Causes, Effectiveness, and Consequences." Candidate | Arizona State University, School of Politics and Global Studies Peyman Asadzade (USIP-Minerva Peace and Security Scholar Fellow)
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