Monica Duffy Toft

PRIO Global Fellow

Monica Duffy Toft left PRIO in 2022. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons. 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

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.

PRIO Departments

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

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Toft, Monica Duffy (2021) Getting Religion Right in Civil Wars, Journal of Conflict Resolution 65(9): 1607–1634.

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 (2021) Wombfare: the weaponization of fertility, in Jennifer D. Sciubba, ed., A Research Agenda for Political Demography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (101–114).

Toft, Monica Duffy (2021) In Divine Time, in Sheikh, Mona Kanwal; & Isak Svensson, eds, Religion, Conflict, and Global Society: a Festschrift celebrating Mark Juergensmeyer. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (37–44).

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.