And, “In Defense of Humanity: Civilian Protection, Aid Work, and the Demise of IHL” with @croixrouge.bsky.social @kristoffer-liden.bsky.social @ralfsuedhoff.bsky.social and Thea Hilhorst
15.10.2025 06:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join our #IHSA #IHSAConference2025 roundtables Friday in Istanbul!
“The end for humanitarianism? Budget cuts, altered humanitarianism(s), and affected populations” with @lubnaalkanawati.bsky.social @claraegger.bsky.social @pollypw.bsky.social, @mariagjumbert.bsky.social
15.10.2025 06:55 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Photo of the night sky in Istanbul.
I am in Istanbul for #IHSA2025 #IHSAConference2025 and to meet folks working in and interested in Turkish and Syrian humanitarian networks. If you’re in town, reach out.
09.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of the night sky in Istanbul.
I am in Istanbul for #IHSA2025 #IHSAConference2025 and to meet folks working in and interested in Turkish and Syrian humanitarian networks. If you’re in town, reach out.
09.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How do you know you’re dealing with a predatory journal? #academicsky #polisky
☑️ Aggressive solicitation (often unsolicited emails)
☑️ Unrealistic, rapid publication timelines
☑️ Misrepresenting impact factor
☑️ High author fees (APCs)❕
When in doubt research the editorial board and ask around.
05.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
It would be lovely to be added, please.
24.09.2025 09:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Rana!
20.09.2025 05:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Syria After Assad
Podcast Episode · New Books in Political Science · 08/29/2025 · 41m
A conversation that grew out of work w @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social alongside Daniel Neep, hosted by @emilykmscott.bsky.social. Recorded 2 months ago, but holds up and helps think about roles of state and society in Syria's future.
open.spotify.com/episode/3yIo...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
29.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Defying Congress, Trump Moves to Cut $4.9 Billion in Foreign Aid
The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.
Breaking News: The White House is moving to cancel $4.9 billion that lawmakers approved for foreign aid programs, using a legally untested maneuver to slash spending without congressional approval.
29.08.2025 16:33 — 👍 116 🔁 71 💬 53 📌 16
A good faith commitment to recognize Palestine would require the government to believe its conditions are reasonable and achievable. I don’t see demilitarization in exchange for a Canadian commitment as an exchange the government expects to be taken up.
31.07.2025 01:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To my mind that matters, but less so than whether the Canadian government reasonably expects it’s more measured conditions to be achievable, but also it’s more far-reaching conditions like demilitarization to be acceptable to any Palestinian government.
31.07.2025 01:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A key consideration is whether the conditions can be met, and whether meeting them will help the PA and Palestinians more broadly. If not, what does that mean for the Canadian commitment to recognize Palestinian statehood?
31.07.2025 01:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#Starmer offers recognition for a Palestinian state unless… #Carney will recognize Palestine if…
I don’t remember continuation of a genocidal siege being a condition of statehood. For that matter, I don’t remember democratic reform as a condition either.
#Palestine #Gaza
30.07.2025 22:44 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 1
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
Devastating account of
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
30.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 23 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
Yes. “They also must consider taking direct action, such as trying to break the siege on Gaza by attempting to bring in aid by land and sea in defiance of Israel and complicit neighbouring governments...”
@tammam.bsky.social @newhumanitarian.bsky.social
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
28.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What is there to say. Palestinians in Gaza are dropping from starvation imposed by Israel. We witness and can do nothing.
22.07.2025 23:47 — 👍 383 🔁 124 💬 4 📌 0
The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.
It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.
No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.
10.07.2025 21:41 — 👍 2612 🔁 1135 💬 41 📌 46
non-affiliated friends and colleagues this is good news!
04.07.2025 14:55 — 👍 29 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
GAZA: Starvation or gunfire — not a humanitarian response | Oxfam International
The travesty that is the #GazaHumanitarinFoundation has not just failed to control crowds, distribute aid more widely throughout the strip, or prevent violence at sites, it has turned aid sites into death traps. #GHF #GAZA
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
#OXFAM @oxfamamerica.bsky.social
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04.07.2025 11:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A crucial detail: “not run by the United Nations.”
This is no accident. UNRWA and the #UnitedNations have been the subject of valid criticisms, but also politically-motivated criticisms in #Gaza.
The latter were meant to delegitimize the organization, and justify stopping their work. 🧵
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04.07.2025 11:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gaza hospital director killed in Israeli strike, Hamas-run health ministry says
Dr Marwan Sultan was killed along with several family members in a strike on his home, the health ministry says.
1500 medical workers killed in #Gaza.
Killed alongside their patients. Killed alongside their families. Killed trying to save lives.
Medical care is #NOTATARGET. #MedicalCareUnderFire #Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
02.07.2025 20:00 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
"The Canadian Medical Association Journal has issued an urgent call for Canada to strengthen systems of tracking and monitoring diseases...
Canada and other countries have relied on work done in the U.S. to track infectious diseases, address pandemic threats and more."
02.07.2025 19:40 — 👍 37 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2
Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes-Colombia, Cultural Studies; Humanitarian Studies, Social Movements, Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will..
Political scientist at Johns Hopkins. MENA/SWANA, disasters, political violence, ethics, humanitarian crises, & qual methods. Wrote a book about Palestinian org evolution & social change in wartime Lebanon: http://bit.ly/3VEw64B. EMT. Opinions my own.
Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Independent analysis, commentary, and reporting on #Syria and beyond. Founded in 2012 by Syrian writers and academics.
Assistant Prof of IR at Lehigh | PhD UPenn, Postdoc at Princeton Niehaus Center | IOs, UN, diplomacy, climate, agendas, baseball, Springsteen, running
Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com
Professor of Global Politics and Sustainable Development at the University of Birmingham. Politics of development; human rights; climate change and health. Based in Deptford, SE London.
The latest research in Political Science and International Relations from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
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Associate Professor of Political Science
Research on Abolition of passports, Free Movement, Political theory, Migration studies
University Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social
https://u-paris.academia.edu/SperantaDumitru
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Development at #UniGlasgow | PI at www.theunrulyproject.org, #GenevaUniversity | Critical IR, Statehood, Urban Stuff, Visuals, Radical Feminism, Post/Decolonial Theory, Political Violence #DRCongo #IvoryCoast
We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
Senior Development Economist & Human Mobility Expert – Migration & Forced Displacement
Morse College Fellow @Yale.edu | PhD Economics @sciencespo.bsky.social | Fulbright Program alumnus @UCBerkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Ex @UNDP.org @OECD-OCDE.bsky.social
Assoc Prof International Relations @ CIRR, University of Groningen. Director @ NOHA. Researching the political ecologies of microbes, disease, and disasters
Associate Prof @RadboudPol @CICAM_RU - @FBAFolke Research Working Groups 2023-2027 - PhD @PoliSciatNU @sciencespo - political violence, NSAGs, #Afghanistan
Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
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Professor and Pracademic @ Brandeis Univ interested in #participation #communityengagement #responsibledatause #peacebuilding #transitionaljustice. I am committed to amplifying the voices of everyday people to improve how we respond to violent conflict.
Good Authority's mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. https://goodauthority.org
Associate Prof at https://korbel.du.edu/sie
Director: https://www.theinclusivegloballeadershipinitiative.org/
Research: https://www.wrawproject.org/
Associate Professor, Political Studies (IR), Queen's University | IR; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; diplomacy; discourse. Mom of Esther and Marcus. She/Elle.
