- Civil war onset and termination
- Motivations for violence
- Religion and nationalism
- Political demography
Monica Duffy Toft left PRIO in 2022. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Monica Duffy Toft
Interests and experience
PRIO Global Fellow 2014-2022.
Monica Toft is Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. She was a Visiting Researcher at PRIO in 2010 and was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow in 2014.
For more information, see Toft's profile page on the Fletcher School website.
Latest publications
All of Monica Duffy Toft publications
Monica Duffy Toft (2021)
Getting Religion Right in Civil Wars
Getting Religion Right in Civil Wars
Journal article in Journal of Conflict Resolution
Monica Duffy Toft (2021)
In Divine Time
In Divine Time
Book chapter in Religion, Conflict, and Global Society: A Festschrift celebrating Mark Juergensmeyer
Monica Duffy Toft (2021)
Wombfare: the weaponization of fertility
Wombfare: the weaponization of fertility
Book chapter in A Research Agenda for Political Demography
Monica Duffy Toft (2020)
How the U.S. Should Leave Afghanistan
How the U.S. Should Leave Afghanistan
Popular article in The National Interest
Monica Duffy Toft (2020)
Americans living and serving overseas could tilt the 2020 election – if only they voted
Americans living and serving overseas could tilt the 2020 election – if only they voted
Popular article in The Conversation
M. Christian Green & Monica Duffy Toft (2018)
Freedom of Religion or Belief Across the Commonwealth: Hard Cases, Diverse Approaches
Freedom of Religion or Belief Across the Commonwealth: Hard Cases, Diverse Approaches
Journal article in The Review of Faith & International Affairs
Monica Duffy Toft & M. Christian Green (2018)
Progress on Freedom of Religion or Belief?: An Analysis of European and North American Government and Parliamentary Initiatives
Progress on Freedom of Religion or Belief?: An Analysis of European and North American Government and Parliamentary Initiatives
Journal article in The Review of Faith & International Affairs
Fount Leron Shults et al. (2018)
A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups
A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups
Journal article in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Monica Duffy Toft (2018)
Concluding Remarks on the Politics of People Changing Places
Concluding Remarks on the Politics of People Changing Places
Book chapter in People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State
Monica Duffy Toft (2018)
Sons of the Soviet Soil and the Collapse of the USSR
Sons of the Soviet Soil and the Collapse of the USSR
Book chapter in People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State