My take on post-ISIS detention of children in Syria: “It's not possible for meaningful rehabilitation to take place in detention by a non-state actor in the middle of a war zone. Children should not have to spend their whole childhood in detention” theworld.org/stories/2024/0…

✨EOI now open for online Making Space workshop I co-run w Laura J. Shepherd!✨ (now in its 5th yr!)

Are you:
🧑‍💻a HDR or ECR
☺️a woman or gender diverse scholar
🌏researching international studies
🦘& based in Australia?

Info & EOI form: tinyurl.com/MakingSpace24

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Some thoughts:
1. How many names can we come up with for a ceasefire?? 🤯

2. You get the sense Israel is probing for #s of hostages still being held by Hamas (tbh it doesn’t sound like many).

3. Imagine having your life be worth a day of ceasefire? 😔

axios.com/2024/04/27/isr…

Important piece on growing authoritarianism and lack of freedom of expression imposed on academics in Israel not just by the state, but by students 👇🏼

haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…

If ever there was a time, surely, on Passover, freedom for Jews means freedom for everyone.

Jewish students are safe from discrimination when all students are safe from discrimination.

When Jewish students are singled out — either for protection or for discrimination — they are made less safe. Period.

This account by a veteran Jewish Israeli photographer Shaul Golan who was beaten and assaulted by Jewish settler militia in occupied West Bank got lost in all the news. It happens daily on various levels to Palestinians. It’s starting to happen more to Jews as well

Important thread on possible #ICC warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders 👇🏼

Great PhD opportunity on the fascinating topic of checkpoints/roadblocks 👇

Join our webinar to hear from Arwa Damon and our expert speakers Nahed Samour, Mariana Karkoutly, Catriona Murdoch & Uğur Ümit Üngör as they lay out new evidence of the Syrian regime’s starvation of Palestinians in Yarmouk, propose pathways for states to pursue accountability…

We are still waiting for the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's (UNWGAD) report on Alaa's imprisonment.

Today 27 freedom of expression and human rights organisations, coordinated by English PEN, have written to UNWGAD, pressing for more urgency.

englishpen.org/posts/campaign…

We're thrilled to announce that the Authoritarian and Challenging Environments Research Workshop will take place at University of Melbourne on 19-20 June 2024

Please circulate among your networks, particularly to PhDs and ECRs

Details, including how to apply: dropbox.com/scl/fi/v7n3b0u… APSA Australia

Reupping this post for Armed Groups and International Law I wrote nearly 6 months ago which remains equally relevant to thinking about ceasefires today.

The TLDR version: ceasefires may be a least worst option but they are not the panacea many hope for.

armedgroups-internationallaw.org/2023/11/09/kno…

Few days left for our @ecpr online event with talks and Q&A by contributors to the Citizenship Studies Special Issue 'Legal identity under insurgencies & unrecognised states' edited by Marika (Miki) Sosnowski & bart klem

Register:
ecpr.eu/Events/Event/P…
S Issue: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Scholarships to study in Australian universities for Palestinian residents of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. dfat.gov.au/people-to-peop…

Honored that legal research by yours truly and Bilyana Petkova Khan on armed groups, families and the dead has been published in Citizenship Studies
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Open access link here:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

SCOOP: A group of House Democrats is urging the Biden admin to help secure the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton University researcher believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq by Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah.
al-monitor.com/originals/2024…

🔊 Register for our upcoming @ecpr online event with talks and Q&A by contributors to the Citizenship Studies Special Issue 'Legal identity under insurgencies & unrecognised states' edited by Marika (Miki) Sosnowski & bart klem: ecpr.eu/Events/Event/P…

Please share with your networks.

The formidable Miriam Margolyes OBE shows us moral clarity and courage when hypocrisy and geopolitical interests ensure too many western leaders turn a blind eye as 33,000+ innocent Gazans are killed .

The tldr version of this project is available in blogform here Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness Critical#statelessness Studies with a piece by Marika (Miki) Sosnowski bart klem and Marnie Lloydd
law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/statel…