great opportunity for Swiss phds and postdocs in int law
www.scil.uzh.ch/en/junior-sc...
when the Chilean junta framed its repression as an 'internal war' - and thereby invoked IHL, going so far as to frame detention facilities' entrance doors with 'POW' signs and replicating the correspondence card system of the 1949 POW Convention (1973).
came out last month - seems fascinating!
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looks like a very useful IR teaching tool
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
published last month
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in weeks before coup, ICRC in Chile proposed that Chilean Red Cross launch a massive information campaign on the Geneva Conventions. Chilean humanitarians opposed it, fearing it would worsen fears about upcoming civil war - a perennial problem of peacetime IHL dissemination.
appearing next month
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very interesting new article - dual use as a political technology of contemporary military violence
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"While he has been vociferous on Russia’s violation of Ukrainian sovereignty, van Middelaar has said very little of similar crimes in the Middle East; on the world-historic challenge of decarbonization, the silence is near absolute."
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
really important message - @charlicarpenter.bsky.social
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/non-prolifer...
Recent wars are marked by a political technology of “dual use” that blurs military and non-military worlds to legitimise military violence. This artic…
