Journal articles

• Rickard, Kit, Giovanni Hollenweger, Sigrid Weber, and Kristin M Bakke (2025). Contentious rituals and inter-group relations: Parading in Northern Ireland. British Journal of Political Science.

• 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.

• 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, John O’Loughlin, and Gerard Toal (2025). Politicizing memory: Evidence from Ukraine. Problems of Post-Communism.

• Bakke, Kristin M, Kit Rickard, and John O’Loughlin (2023). Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space. Post-Soviet Affairs.

• Bakke, Kristin M and Kit Rickard (2021). Legacies of wartime order: Punishment attacks and social control in Northern Ireland. Security Studies.

• 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.

• 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

• Rickard, Kit and Kristin M Bakke. “‘Ten pound touts’: post-conflict trust and the legacy of counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland”. Forthcoming in Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict Development and State-Building in the Shadow of Wartime Institutional Change (OUP), Patricia Justino (ed).

• Ó Dochartaigh, Niall and Kit Rickard. “Mediation Process Design and Major-Power Mediation in the Northern Ireland Peace Process”. Forthcoming in edited volume.

Working papers

• Duursma, Allard, Diana Steffen, Kit Rickard, and Sascha Langenbach. Webs of War: Introducing a Web-Based Tool for Visualizing Conflict Networks. Accepted at Journal of Peace Research.

• Rickard, Kit. When rebel support internationalizes civil wars. Revise and resubmit.

• Bulutgil, Zeynep and Kit Rickard. 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. Arming Rebellion: Foreign Support and Rebel Fragmentation in 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 Eurasia, 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 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 Kristin M. Bakke, The Independent, 2nd February 2019.

• “Why changing the Good Friday Agreement because of Brexit is such a dangerous idea”, with 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.