Image: Uasin Gishu County, Kenya’s Rift Valley (November 2013)

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

On Elections, Parties, and Political Violence

Aditi Malik and Monica Prasad. “Peace by Committee: State, Society, and the Control of Communal Violence in Bhagalpur, Bihar,” India Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2022): 181-215.

*Both authors contributed equally to writing this article*

Aditi Malik. “Hindu-Muslim Violence in Unexpected Places: Theory and Evidence from Rural India,” Politics, Groups, & Identities, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2021): 40-58.

Aditi Malik and Philip Onguny. “Elite Strategies, Emphasis Frames, and Mass Participation in Electoral Violence in Kenya,” Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2020): 560-578.

*Both authors contributed equally to writing this article* 

Aditi Malik. “Constitutional Reform and New Patterns of Electoral Violence: Evidence from Kenya’s 2013 Elections,” Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Vol. 56, No. 3 (2018): 340-359.

Aditi Malik. “Mobilizing a Defensive Kikuyu-Kalenjin Alliance: The Politicization of the International Criminal Court in Kenya’s 2013 Presidential Election,” African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2016): 48-73.

On Human Rights

Susan Dicklitch and Aditi Malik. “Justice, Human Rights, and Reconciliation in Postconflict Cambodia,” Human Rights Review, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2010): 515-530.

*Both authors contributed equally to writing this article* 

Michael L. Penn and Aditi Malik. “The Protection and Development of the Human Spirit: An Expanded Focus for Human Rights Discourse,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2010): 665-688.

*Both authors contributed equally to writing this article* 

On Methods and the Philosophy of Social Science

Aditi Malik and Poulami Roychowdhury. “Methodological Impasses: Facing Interrogation and Silence while Gathering Data on Sexual Violence in India,” PS: Political Science & Politics. DOI: 10.1017/S1049096523000690 (2024), 1-4. 

*Both authors contributed equally to writing this article*

Aditi Malik. “The Promise of Interpretive Methods in Tightly Controlled Political Settings,” SAGE Research Methods Cases (2019): 2-11.

SPECIAL ISSUES

Ahmed Ibrahim, Aditi Malik, and Cori Wielenga. “Migration in sub-Saharan Africa: The Somali Refugee and Migrant Experience,” Introduction to a co-edited special issue on the Somali refugee and migrant experience. African Studies Review, Vol. 61, No. 1 (2020): 9-17.

*Authors are listed alphabetically. All authors contributed equally to writing the introduction and to co-editing the constituent articles in the special issue*

EDITOR-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Aditi Malik. “Devolution and Electoral Violence in Kenya,” in Abu Bakarr Bah (ed.) Post-Conflict Institutional Design: Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa. London, UK: Zed Books (2020): 164-196.

Aditi Malik. “Ethnicity, Parties, and Electoral Violence in Developing Democracies,” in Matt Golder and Sona Golder (eds.) “Symposium: Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective,” CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2017): 61-67.

BOOK REVIEWS

Aditi Malik. Book Review of Ending Gender-Based Violence: Justice and Community in South Africa by Hannah Britton. Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2022): 748-750.

Aditi Malik. Book Review of Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace by Susan Thomson. African Studies Review, Vol. 63, No. 2 (2020): E25-E27.

Aditi Malik. “Beyond Rhetoric: Sino-Indian Relations in an Era of Interdependence,” (Book Review of China and India: Prospects for Peace by Jonathan Holslag). Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 223-225.

ONGOING PROJECTS & WORKING PAPERS

Aditi Malik and Daniel Encinas. “Revolutionary Lessons: Learning, Diffusion, and Comparative Insights on Rebel-to-Party Transformations in Peru and Nepal” (working paper).

Aditi Malik. “Mobilizing Public Protests against Sexual Violence in India” (working paper).

POLICY PAPERS, PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP, & MEDIA APPEARANCES

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.

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

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

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.

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.