State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya

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1 Note the recent launch of the In Pursuit of ‘Legality’ and ‘Justice’: Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union project. This project seeks to combine analysis of primary and secondary sources, including archival sources and oral histories, to explore how ethnic and religious minorities in the Soviet Union instrumentalised law. Note also that Lazarev’s methodological candour ensures that his study can be tested in other peripheral sites – and indeed, I am working on a creating my own open source web scraping tool to complete a comparative project for Dagestan given my own ongoing research in the Republic.

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Diane Tippett

Diane Tippett is a penultimate year PhD candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral thesis is entitled ‘The archaeology of Afghan political identities and implications for peacebuilding: a comparative study of Soviet and American interventions’. Diane’s previous research has focussed on the North Caucasus (specifically Dagestan) and Central Asia, with the underlying theme being analysis of protracted identity-based conflicts and pathways to achieving peace with justice. She has recently launched www.dekolonizatsiia.com – a new digital platform dedicated to unravelling and challenging the lingering effects of colonialism, with a particular focus on the aftermath of the Soviet Union's dissolution. Diane has a Master of Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of Arts (Politics and International Studies) from the University of Adelaide and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law. Diane is trained in both advanced qualitative and quantitative research methods, and social research ethics; pursuing immersive research and fieldwork opportunities wherever possible. She speaks English and has been learning both Russian and Persian for a number of years. Holding dual Australian and Italian citizenship, she has rejected both homelands and instead has recently relocated to London where she has found herself with more time than ever to opine over her lack of followers on Twitter.