Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili

Founding Dir. @CGMPitt | Professor at Pitt | Nonres Scholar @CarnegieEndow | Governance, Security, Development—from the bottom-up | yinzer murtazashvili.org Pittsburgh Joined March 2007

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Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili

19 hours ago

Universities have failed to manage issues related to freedom of speech and academic freedom. There are no clear standards or rules, coupled with leadership that often cannot articulate positions with any consistency. As a result, all sides harbor deeply legitimate grievances.…

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kamran hakiman @kamran_hakiman

21 hours ago

“Centralized instigation and control for Myanmar’s Spring Revolution were never necessary given it emerged as a bottom-up uprising driven by the population at large.” How a population, not elites, can drive democratic resistance should be given far more attention.

The Irrawaddy (Eng) @IrrawaddyNews

2 days ago

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Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili

2 days ago

We have failed to teach our students to understand pluralism and navigate difference. We as faculty fail to model this ourselves.

Timur Kuran @timurkuran

2 days ago

We have failed to teach our students to understand pluralism and navigate difference. We as faculty fail to model this ourselves.

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Ahmet T. Kuru @prof_ahmetkuru

3 days ago

My new article on Muslim world & Ibn Khaldun Open Access only a week emerald.com/insight/conten… Is Ibn Khaldun's theory of nomads still relevant? How do his Muqaddimah & my book explain the fall of Muslim states differently? This issue also includes reviews of my book & my rejoinder

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Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili

3 days ago

“I have landed among the Yinzers.” —⁦@dmarusic⁩ thespectator.com/topic/reflecti…

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Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili

3 days ago

Join me today at 1:30pm ET for a @PittTweet panel discussion on the vital role of free speech in advancing university missions. It’s encouraging to see a growing consensus on free speech across political divides in recent months. Details: calendar.pitt.edu/event/protecte…

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Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili

4 days ago

To keep up on Georgia, you must follow the brilliant and brave @KShoshiashvili.

Terrell Jermaine Starr 🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸✊🏾🇬🇪 @terrelljstarr

4 days ago

To keep up on Georgia, you must follow the brilliant and brave @KShoshiashvili.

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PAR @PAReview

4 days ago

This year's Newland Award for the Best Practitioner Commentary or Viewpoint goes to Wendy D. Chen and Ilia Murtazashvili @IMurtazashvili for their article titled "Blockchains for emergency and crisis management". 1/🧵

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Bristol University Press Journals @BUP_Journals

6 days ago

Read it with open access: The Political Economy of the War in Ukraine Guest edited by @brik_t, @Mylovanov, @jmurtazashvili & @IMurtazashvili #UkraineWar #PublicChoice #polycentricity @HussOksana @NathanPGoodman bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

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Timur Kuran @timurkuran

6 days ago

It’s not just Columbia that needs a “reset.” US universities must return to their core mission of education. They must recommit themselves to institutional neutrality, restore academic freedoms, and start enforcing rules consistently across groups and causes. (Clips: NYT)

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Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili

a week ago

There has been an explosion of social science research on traditional governance in recent years. Most assume a very hierarchical ordering of such societies (assume ‘chiefs’ when there are none) and rarely explore this “unit homogeneity” assumption. Many societies have very…

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Heather Barr @heatherbarr1

a week ago

“The Taliban-run Ministry of Education has forced education officials to sign commitments that they will not teach girls above grade six or girls aged fourteen and above, according to four education centres in Kabul.” rukhshana.com/en/hope-for-gi…

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Discourse Magazine @Discourse_Mag

a week ago

"What we could not have predicted was that after an unimaginable number of Jews were killed, raped, tortured and burned halfway around the world, antisemitism here would spike dramatically." Rabbi Seth Adelson on Passover amid rising antisemitism: discoursemagazine.com/p/dayenu-in-re…

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Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific

2 weeks ago

@fire is dedicated to defending a principle: the right to free speech and free thought. Having a principle means that you follow the same code in all situations, and your actions are predictable, fair and nonpartisan.