Monica Duffy Toft was an External Associate at PRIO until 2022.
Monica Duffy Toft
PRIO Global Fellow
Additional positions:
Professor of Government and Public Policy at Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford
Research Interests
- Civil war onset and termination
- Motivations for violence
- Religion and nationalism
- Political demography
PRIO Global Fellow 2014-2022.
Monica Toft is Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. She was a Visiting Researcher at PRIO in 2010 and was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow in 2014.
For more information, see Toft's profile page on the Fletcher School website.
Latest publications
All publications
Getting Religion Right in Civil Wars
Journal Article in Journal of Conflict Resolution
Wombfare: the weaponization of fertility
Book Chapter in A Research Agenda for Political Demography
In Divine Time
Book Chapter in Religion, Conflict, and Global Society: a Festschrift celebrating Mark Juergensmeyer
How the U.S. Should Leave Afghanistan
Popular Article in The National Interest
Americans living and serving overseas could tilt the 2020 election – if only they voted
Popular Article in The Conversation
Sons of the Soviet Soil and the Collapse of the USSR
Book Chapter in People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State
Concluding Remarks on the Politics of People Changing Places
Book Chapter in People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State
People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State
Edited Volume
A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups
Journal Article in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Progress on Freedom of Religion or Belief?: An Analysis of European and North American Government and Parliamentary Initiatives
Journal Article in The Review of Faith & International Affairs
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