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UK govt 1975 position on proposal to ban attacks on dams/nuclear facilities: essentially opposing it, astonishingly asserting that such strikes 'may or may not have' major consequences for civilians & even invoking its own nuclear power stations as leverage to persuade Third World to help block it.

A flow chart shows 17.4 million leave voters in 2016, vs 16.1m remain. In 2025, 5 million of those people have died, and 3 million new voters have come of age. The result (plus some people changing their mind) is 19.8 million voters now back rejoin, versus just 11.7 million wanting to stay out.

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

2 docs from drafting of Additional Protocols (1975) showing how US was actively seeking to prevent constraints on disproport attacks/'combat crimes' in conduct of hostilities - as acts falling outside emerging war-crimes framework - while simultaneously trying to undermine such regulatory efforts.

Life as an ICC judge sanctioned by Trump Prominent jurist Luz Ibanez shares how her life has been impacted by US sanctions, and why she is not deterred from carrying out her work in The Hague

ICC Judge Ibanez Carranza (Peru) on US sanctions against her:

"I said to these [Dutch] officials that I feel defenceless, because if they can do nothing—if they are doing over-compliance with these sanctions—then where is the sovereignty of this country?" www.middleeasteye.net/news/life-ic...

My article on Hans Kelsen and the world state is now published in open access on The Journal of Global History and you can check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S174....

Territorial Integrity As an Etiquette of Thieves: Non-conquest in Nineteenth-Century Imperialism

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for Papers: “Before War: Prepare to Comply with International Humanitarian Law” Call for Papers: “Before War: Prepare to Comply with International Humanitarian Law” Deadline for Submission of Abstract: 01 December 2025 Decision whether Abstract has been selected: 20 December 2025...

the closest ICRC ever got to admitting my preparing-for-war-thesis - "drafters of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, drawing on two World Wars, sought not only to set rules for wartime but also to establish frameworks for peacetime measures enabling respect".

international-review.icrc.org/call-for-pap...

very interesting case study on Anghie's reception in China - as part of a bigger symposium

cil.nus.edu.sg/blogs/search...

British troops accused of human rights violations and sexual abuse in Kenya Inquiry into British Army Training Unit in Kenya by country’s parliament says UK military ‘dismissed most complaints as false, without publishing its findings’

British troops accused of human rights violations and sexual abuse in Kenya

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Weaponizing civilian protection: counterinsurgency and collateral damage in Afghanistan In Weaponizing civilian protection, Thomas Gregory offers a significant intervention in the scholarship on civilian protection, international humanitarian

"In Weaponizing civilian protection, Thomas Gregory argues persuasively that civilian protection is not simply a humanitarian imperative, but increasingly a strategic asset that
renders certain forms of violence permissible."

academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

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@oxfordup.bsky.social Handbook of #TransitionalJustice
48 Chapters by Leading Scholars
6 Parts / 1154 Pages long
A decade in the making
Oxford Academic link in next thread

Trump’s boat bombings: How the US has long used ‘double-tap’ strikes 'Double strikes' allegedly used on Venezuelan boats accused of trafficking drugs were used extensively under Obama.

I agree - and wondering if there’s any prior legal debate on earlier second strikes/double-tap-strikes cases under previous administrations, seems hard to find. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.

Former EEAS chief Mogherini, top Commission official arrested in fraud probe | Euractiv Mogherini, and senior EU official Stefano Sannino are among the arrests

Wow www.euractiv.com/news/former-...

Special Forces heads suppressed SAS war crime evidence, inquiry hears An officer tells the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan UK Special Forces leadership was "very much suppressing" the allegations.

SAS war crime evidence suppressed, inquiry hears

www.bbc.com/news/article...

appearing in February

www.ucpress.edu/books/immuni...

Situation in Libya: Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri in ICC custody Today, 1 December 2025, Mr Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was surrendered to the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC or “the Court”). Mr El Hishri, a national of Libya, was arrested on 16 J...

New ICC case: Khaled El Hishri (Situation in Libya), allegedly one of the most senior Mitiga prison officials, is now in the custody of the ICC.

On the 1st day of #ASP24, he was finally surrendered by Germany; it took German authorities 4,5 months to do so.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Shocking figures on the ICC’s workplace culture

H.E. Judge Tomoko Akane, President of the ICC, delivers her remarks at #ASP24

Today, nine elected officials have been designated for sanctions, along with terrorists and drug traffickers. Court officials have been been subject to criminal investigations and arrested in absentia.

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really interesting new article - Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

available soon

www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

The Russian Red Cross is tied to Russia’s war machine while still getting €13.5 million from global Red Cross bodies in 2024.

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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent

This is so problematic. Creating big-money grants (7m EUR!) is such a travesty. Instead of funding 1 researcher, why not fund 25 with smaller grants? It would create more ideas, secure more careers, and create so much more innovative knowledge. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

The volume is now also available online www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

Call for Papers: Business, armed conflict, and international law For the Conference Business, armed conflict, and international law at Utrecht University, we invite abstracts to be send by Friday 28 November.

Call for Papers: Business, armed conflict, and international law

www.uu.nl/en/news/call...

next Tuesday - for those in/around Bristol, please join us!

a bit of what if history - US govt draft statement announcing its withdrawal from Additional Protocols making in case of scenario accession Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (Feb 1975) to 2nd session in Geneva.