🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 Are you studying the Western Balkans? Submit your abstract for the "Contemporary Politics in the Western Balkans" workshop in Stockholm (April 10-11, 2025). Deadline: Nov 1, 2024 🔗 forms.office.com/e/ADuWCi4CPd #WesternBalkans #PoliticalScience #CFP

Lawrence Freedman Sam Freedman Fully support this Lawrence Freedman! In fact (here it comes!), just today we Peace in Our Cities Network Global Initiative launched a new report on how cities should be included in global peace and security discussions! peaceinourcities.org/resources/urba…

IDF attacks UN peacekeeping positions, injuring 2 UNIFIL peacekeepers. news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

War crime

I don’t like sharing graphic images but I just saw a Palestinian child burning alive trapped under the rubble of Israel’s latest “act of self-defence”. A child. Burning alive.

“47 child-aged adults die in Israeli strike” - Western media

A headline that captures the moral insanity

Since Israel does not believe Palestinians are human beings, the only way to disrupt their onslaught is by placing people they do consider human beings in the way of their bombs. This is why they want UNIFIL gone. Which means we need more blue helmets in the Middle East, not less

An urgent cry from 38 aid groups: "The Israeli assault on Gaza has escalated to a horrifying level of atrocity. Northern Gaza is being wiped off the map. This is not evacuation—this is forced displacement under gunfire. Civilians are being starved." oxfam.org/en/press-relea…

The dream: people are reading your work The terror: people are reading your work

Re-reading your draft

This week at the InnPeace we are hosting Nidžara Ahmetašević. Register for the online talk at the link below.

💔Tyre is Lebanon's mixed city more than any other, a model of public beaches accessible and practiced by all, culture and archeology intertwined with residential neighborhoods, important cultural assets above and below the sea-levels.

Happy to be co-organising this very timely workshop on contemporary politics in the Western Balkans. Please consider applying and please share widely! Deadline 1 November! forms.office.com/pages/response…

I love this guy as I love a brother. You might consider doing the same.

NEW: ‘A Cartography of Genocide’. Since October 2023, we have collected and analysed data related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Our findings indicate that Israel has systematically targeted all aspects of civilian life. tinyurl.com/bdcrnzka

When cities are bombed. When cities are shelled. When cities are hit by airstrikes, rockets or artillery fire. It’s the civilians who suffer. When wars are fought in cities, an estimated 90% of casualties are civilians. Heavy explosive weapons shouldn't be used in cities.

This is what ethnic cleansing looks like. And Israel, it seems, is carrying out ethnic cleansing. Under the codename "General's Plan," horrific war crimes are currently being committed in northern Gaza. 🧵👇🏽