Journal articles

  • Rickard, Kit, Giovanni Hollenweger, Sigrid Weber, and Kristin M Bakke. “Contentious rituals and inter-group relations: Parading in Northern Ireland”. British Journal of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425100835. Replication here.

  • Bakke, Kristin M, Marianne Dahl and Kit Rickard. 2025. “Conflict exposure and people’s perception of protection of democratic principles: Evidence from wartime Ukraine”. Journal of Peace Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433251347769. Replication here

  • 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, doi.org/10.1177/00223433251321763. Replication here.

  • Bakke, Kristin M, Kit Rickard, John O’Loughlin, and Gerard Toal. 2024. “Politicizing memory: Evidence from Ukraine”. Problems of Post-Communism, 72(1), 16-35 doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2024.2316037. Replication here.

  • Bakke, Kristin M, Kit Rickard, and John O’Loughlin. 2023. “Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space”. Post-Soviet Affairs, 39(4), 223-256 doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2023.2170153. Replication here.

  • Bakke, Kristin M and Kit Rickard. 2021. “Legacies of wartime order: Punishment attacks and social control in Northern Ireland”. Security Studies, 30(4), 603-636 doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2021.1976822. Replication here.

  • Chinchilla, Alexandra, Kit Rickard and Giuseppe Spatafora. 2021. “Ways forward: A research agenda on conflict delegation” in “Conflict Delegation in International Relations”, International Studies Review, 23(4), 2048-2078, doi.org/10.1093/isr/viab053.

  • 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, 19(4), 410-430, doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2019.1680290.

Book chapters

  • Rickard, Kit and Kristin M Bakke. “‘Ten pound touts’: post-conflict trust and the legacy of counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland”. UNU-WIDER working paper available here. Forthcoming in edited volume, Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict (OUP).

  • Ó Dochartaigh, Niall and Kit Rickard. “Mediation Process Design and Major-Power Mediation in the Northern Ireland Peace Process”. Draft for edited volume on Process Designs in Mediation (OUP).

Working papers

  • Duursma, Allard, Diana Steffen, Kit Rickard, and Sascha Langenbach. “Webs of War: Introducing a Web-Based Tool for Visualizing Conflict Networks”. Revise and resubmit. Paper available here.

  • Rickard, Kit. “When rebel support internationalizes civil wars”. Under review.

  • Bulutgil, Zeynep. “The institutional roots of secular party success: Evidence from 19th century France”. Under review.

  • Rickard, Kit and Kristin M Bakke. “Demand or coercion: Local support for non-state armed actors”. Draft manuscript.

  • Ottmann, Martin and Kit Rickard. “Military occupation and community cohesion: Evidence from Ukraine”. 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.

  • Grushetsky, Anton, Marnie Howlett, Carl Mueller-Crepon, and Kit Rickard. “Preferences over contested territory: Evidence from a new survey experiment in Ukraine”. Draft manuscript.

  • Rickard, Kit. “Cohesion and Chaos: How the International System Transforms Civil War”. Book manuscript.

  • Rickard, Kit and Fabio Schmocker. “High Risk Mobilisation in Ukraine”. Draft manuscript.

Media

  • “The challenges of wartime polling in Ukraine”, CSS Analyses in Security Policy, February 2024.

  • “25 Years after the Good Friday Agreement: Persistent violence and the role of digital platforms in Northern Ireland today”, The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), 11th April 2023.

  • “Four global problems that will be aggravated by the UK’s recent cuts to international aid”, with Patricia Justino, The Conversation, 28th March 2023.

  • “How Reliable Are Polls In Wartime Ukraine?”, with Gerard Toal, Kristin M. Bakke, and John O’Loughlin, PONARS Euraia, 15th February 2023.

  • “Putin’s plan to stop Ukraine turning to the west has failed – our survey shows support for Nato is at an all-time high”, with Kristin M. Bakke, Gerard Toal, and John O’Loughlin, The Conversation, 4th January 2023.

  • “What would be the economic consequences of a military stalemate in Ukraine?”, with Patricia Justino, WIDERAngle Blog, UNU-WIDER, October 2022.

  • “How will the Russian-Ukraine war be fought? External support and insurgency tactics”, WIDERAngle Blog, UNU-WIDER, March 2022.

  • Interviewed for PRIO’s Peace in a Pod podcast to discuss my work on Northern Ireland and recent developments in the region, 13th May 2021.

  • “Northern Ireland: how to understand the influence of paramilitary groups”, with Prof Kristin M. Bakke, The Conversation, 12th April 2021.

  • “With politicians who can’t be bothered to read peace agreements, it’s no wonder Brexit negotiations are such a mess”, with Prof Kristin M. Bakke, The Independent, 2nd February 2019.

  • “Why changing the Good Friday Agreement because of Brexit is such a dangerous idea”, with Prof Kristin M. Bakke, The Conversation, 28th January 2019.

  • Interviewed for “Police the public, or protect it? For a U.S. in crisis, Hard lessons from other countries”, Amanda Taub, The New York Times, 24th June 2020.

Fieldwork

  • Northern Ireland: August 2018, July 2023

  • French departmental archives (Perpignan, Angers, Besançon): 2023

  • National Archives, France: June and November 2022

  • Ukraine and Georgia: May 2019

Miscellaneous

I published an article in the British Medical Journal’s Open Heart Journal with my good friend, Charlie Ferry.