MEDIA APPEARANCES AND RESEARCH COVERAGE

“10 Essential Reads on African Politics for Summer 2025” - Playing with Fire featured in African Politics summer 2025 reading recommendations by Kelechi Amakoh for Good Authority, July 22, 2025. 

“18 Books to Read from 2024” - Playing with Fire featured in 2024 reading recommendations by Jeffrey Paller for This Week in Africa, January 9, 2025.

“Party Instability and and Political Violence in India,” Interview on Playing with Fire for Grand Tamasha Podcast with Milan Vaishnav, December 10, 2024.

“Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India,” Interview for the New Books Network Podcast with Yash Sharma, September 6, 2024.

Zack Beauchamp. “Narendra Modi is Celebrating his Scary Vision for India’s Future,” Vox, January 27, 2024 (quoted as an expert on Indian politics).

“How India is Transforming Towards Authoritarianism,” Deutsche Welle Analysis Interview, November 17, 2020.

“Understanding the Drivers of Political and Gender-Based Violence,” Gates Cambridge Scholars Profile, December 20, 2017.

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

Aditi Malik. “Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India,” Fifteen Eighty Four (CUP Blog), August 14, 2024.  

Aditi Malik and Philip Onguny. “From Message to Violence: What to Watch for in the Media Ahead of Kenya's Elections,” The Conversation, March 21, 2022.

*Featured in The Conversation’s explainer on media and the 2022 Kenyan elections*

Kathleen Klaus and Aditi Malik. “There’s a Long, Troubling History Behind the Capitol Attack,” The Monkey Cage Blog, The Washington Post, January 24, 2021.

Aditi Malik, Shivaji Mukherjee, and Ajay Verghese. “In India, Thousands are Protesting the New Citizenship Law. Here are 4 Things to Know,” The Monkey Cage Blog, The Washington Post, December 31, 2019.

Aditi Malik and Shivaji Mukherjee. “Why Kashmir May See Increased Violence after the Revocation of Article 370,” The Monkey Cage Blog, The Washington Post, August 14, 2019.

Aditi Malik. “Electoral Violence and the Prevention of Violent Conflict,” World Bank Blogs, May 16, 2018.

Aditi Malik. “Two Elections to Watch in 2018: Cambodia and Pakistan,” IAPS Dialogue (The Online Magazine of the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies), January 8, 2018.

Ahmed Ibrahim, Aditi Malik, and Cori Wielenga. “Workshop on ‘Inclusion and Exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa: Migrants’ Challenges in Comparative Perspective,’” Political Science Now, March 21, 2017.

Aditi Malik. “Devolution and Electoral Violence: Has Kenya’s County System Created New Arenas for the Organization of Election-Related Conflict?” Explaining and Mitigating Electoral Violence Blog, November 21, 2016.

POLICY REPORTS AND WRITING

Aditi Malik. “Electoral Violence and the Prevention of Violent Conflict,” Background Paper (May 2017) for Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict. A Joint UN-World Bank Study, 2018.

Aditi Malik. “Overcoming IBSA’s Blindspot: Developing a Coherent and Unified Human Rights Identity,” Paper prepared for the India, Brazil, South Africa (IBSA) Conference at   the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), New Delhi, India, December 2012.