An important contribution by Jannis J Grimm (@jannisgrimm.bsky.social) in POMEPS on #ShrinkingSpace for Critical Scientific Debate in #Germany after October 7.
'German universities [...] have a responsibility to provide and protect the spaces where such reflections can take place.'
pomeps.org/on-academic-in…

'Als Konfliktforscher verliere ich meine Integrität, wenn ich die Menschen- und Völkerrechtsverletzungen nicht klar benenne – gleich wer sie begeht.

Aus dem Interview mit Freie Universität Konfliktforscher Jannis J Grimm (@jannisgrimm.bsky.social) und Islamwissenschaftlerin Gudrun Krämer im heutigen Tagesspiegel Berlin.

POMEPS Freie Universität Jannis J Grimm (@jannisgrimm.bsky.social) To access the entire collection w/interventions by Fiona B. Adamson Alexei Sisulu Abrahams Stephen Zunes Jakub Zahora Hamzeh Hadad | حمزة حداد Nader Hashemi Kristian Ulrichsen Curtis Ryan Benjamin Schuetze 🇵🇸 and many more see: pomeps.org/pomeps-studies…

POMEPS Freie Universität Jannis J Grimm (@jannisgrimm.bsky.social) You can read his article here: pomeps.org/on-academic-in…

The new POMEPS study contains reflections on a critical junctures for the Middle East and for Middle East Political Science. Freie Universität researcher Jannis J Grimm (@jannisgrimm.bsky.social) has contributed to this collection w/a piece on 'Academic Integrity and Historic Responsibility' in Germany after Oct 7

This day is not starting well..

In the context of recent escalations, this attack may be an understated #Israel |i message that they can hit #Iran anywhere, anytime, and without resorting to major overt strikes.

If so, both sides can de-escalate, although Iran will have made an arguably more powerful point. 9/

Bottom line: While TAB 8 is a more prominent target, Mossad covert quadcopter attacks (which Iran seems to have trouble stopping) fall under what one might call the 'old rules of the game' and below the threshold of what I would have expected for a major, overt, Iranian strike 7/

Excited to be part of this important new POMEPS study with a piece on the dire situation in Germany. Take a look at this great collection of papers!

Fast verwundert es mich, dass ein solcher Bericht tatsächlich im ÖRR läuft. Es war höchste Zeit, sehr sehenswert.

CN #SexuelleGewalt #geschlechtsspezifischeGewalt
Es gibt einen neuen Fond für schnelle & unbürokratische Hilfe bei sexueller Gewalt: tildafonds.org vom Projekt #StattBlumen tildafonds.org/#stattblumen
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How times have changed.

Excited to be part of this important new POMEPS study with a piece on the dire situation in Germany. Take a look at this great collection of papers!

I mean recent articles, not the one from 2011

Rereading this paper in light of October 7 and war on Gaza. Written over a decade earlier, it's an almost perfect description of today's action logics, especially within Hamas: 'Things Come Together: symbolic violence and guerrilla mobilisation' tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Very interesting development: Federal Prosecutors in Germany have declared the People’s Republic of Donetsk a terrorist organization; supporters can hence be charged according