Research

Journal articles

Rickard, Kit (Accepted). When rebel support internationalizes civil wars. International Studies Quarterly.
Duursma, Allard, Diana Steffen, Kit Rickard, and Sascha Langenbach (2026). The Conflict Network Explorer: A web-based tool for visualizing conflict. Journal of Peace Research.
Bakke, Kristin M, Marianne Dahl, and Kit Rickard (2025). Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine. Journal of Peace Research.
Bakke, Kristin M, Kit Rickard, John O’Loughlin, and Gerard Toal (2025). Politicizing memory: Evidence from Ukraine. Problems of Post-Communism.
Rickard, Kit, Giovanni Hollenweger, Sigrid Weber, and Kristin M Bakke (2025). Contentious rituals and intergroup relations: Parading in Northern Ireland. British Journal of Political Science.
Rickard, Kit, Gerard Toal, Kristin M Bakke, and John O’Loughlin (2025). The challenges of surveying in war zones: Lessons from Ukraine. Journal of Peace Research.
Bakke, Kristin M, Kit Rickard, and John O’Loughlin (2023). Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space. Post-Soviet Affairs.
Chinchilla, Alexandra, Kit Rickard, and Giuseppe Spatafora (2021). Ways forward: A research agenda on conflict delegation. International Studies Review. Part of ‘Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars’.
Rickard, Kit and Kristin M Bakke (2021). Legacies of wartime order: Punishment attacks and social control in Northern Ireland. Security Studies.
Rauta, Vladimir, Matthew Ayton, Alexandra Chinchilla, Andreas Krieg, Kit Rickard, and Jean-Marc Rickli (2019). A symposium – debating ‘surrogate warfare’ and the transformation of war. Defence Studies.

Book chapters

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall and Kit Rickard (Forthcoming). Mediation process design and major-power mediation in the Northern Ireland peace process. In edited volume.
Rickard, Kit and Kristin M Bakke (2026). ‘Ten pound touts’: Post-conflict trust and the legacy of counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland. In Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict: Development and State-Building in the Shadow of Wartime Institutional Change, Patricia Justino (ed.), Oxford University Press.

Working papers

  • Bulutgil, Zeynep and Kit Rickard. The institutional roots of secular party success: Evidence from 19th century France. Revise and resubmit
  • Ottmann, Martin and Kit Rickard. Military occupation and community cohesion: Evidence from Ukraine. Under review
  • Rickard, Kit, Marnie Howlett, Anton Hrushetsky, and Carl Mueller-Crepon. Preferences over contested territory: Evidence from a new survey experiment in Ukraine. Draft manuscript
  • Rickard, Kit and Kristin M Bakke. Demand or coercion: Local support for non-state armed actors. Draft manuscript
  • Bakke, Kristin M, John O’Loughlin, Kit Rickard, and Gerard Toal. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and geopolitical attitudes in Russia’s ‘near abroad’. Draft manuscript
  • Rickard, Kit. Arming Rebellion: Foreign Support and Rebel Fragmentation in Civil War. Book manuscript