Monica Duffy Toft

PRIO Global Fellow

Institution: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Additional position(s):
Professor of Government and Public Policy at Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford

Email: Monica.Toft@tufts.edu
Twitter: @mduffytoft
Website: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk

Monica Duffy Toft is an External Associate at PRIO.

Research Interests

Civil war onset and termination
Motivations for violence
Religion and nationalism
Political demography

Background

Monica Toft is Professor of Government and Public Policy at Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Prior to taking up this post, she was Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard. 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 Blavatnik School website.

PRIO Departments

Current

Conditions of Violence and Peace

Historical

Events

Fri, 19 January 2018 – Women, Peace and Security Research Workshop
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:15-10:00 – Globalization, Geopolitics and War: Celebrating Journal of Peace Research at 50

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Recent Publications

Toft, Monica Duffy (2020) How the U.S. Should Leave Afghanistan, The National Interest, 5 December.

Toft, Monica Duffy (2020) Americans living and serving overseas could tilt the 2020 election – if only they voted, The Conversation, 28 October.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Shults, Fount Leron; Ross Gore; Wesley J. Wildman; Christopher J. Lynch; Justin E. Lane & Monica Duffy Toft (2018) A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 21(4): 7–.

Toft, Monica Duffy & M. Christian Green (2018) Progress on Freedom of Religion or Belief?: An Analysis of European and North American Government and Parliamentary Initiatives, The Review of Faith & International Affairs 16(4): 4–18.

Green, M. Christian & Monica Duffy Toft (2018) Freedom of Religion or Belief Across the Commonwealth: Hard Cases, Diverse Approaches, The Review of Faith & International Affairs 16(4): 19–33.

Book Chapter

Toft, Monica Duffy (2018) Sons of the Soviet Soil and the Collapse of the USSR, in Côté, Isabelle; Matthew I. Mitchell; & Monica Duffy Toft, eds, People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State. New York: Routledge (150–168).

Toft, Monica Duffy (2018) Concluding Remarks on the Politics of People Changing Places, in Côté, Isabelle; Matthew I. Mitchell; & Monica Duffy Toft, eds, People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State. New York: Routledge (223–231).

Edited Volume

Côté, Isabelle; Matthew I. Mitchell; & Monica Duffy Toft, eds, (2018) People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State. New York: Routledge.