📢📢Call for Papers!

This year's CTS Annual Conference will take place online on 9 September.

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Honoured to have received this award along with my co-conspirators @amnakaleem.bsky.social and @rmkhan.bsky.social !

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2025's WG of the year winners is looking for a new co-convenor! Post starts September for a three-year term 🎉
Deadline to apply 20 July 2025 🌟

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📚 📢 Two new entries in the Virtual Encyclopaedia "Rewriting Peace and Conflict"

@rmkhan.bsky.social discusses the concept of #terrorism,
Gabriel Garroum Pla explores the topic of #urbicide.

These and more entries are available on the Virtual Encyclopaedia website!
👇 rewritingpeaceandconflict.net

An image promoting Dr Priya Dixit's Editor's Collection in the Review of International Studies: The Politics of Knowledge Production Featuring a quote from Dr Dixit: "These articles provide a starting point to consider how IR scholars can introduce reflexivity regarding the inequalities of global knowledge production, in terms of access and meaning-making, while discussing and debating IR research"

REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 📝

Editor Priya Dixit has curated our latest @risjnl.bsky.social 'Editor's collection: "The Politics of knowledge production"

👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Articles by @rmkhan.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social +more

@cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social #ISA2025

It was so nice meeting you and learning more about your own, fascinating research! And you’re too kind, the real trailblazer is my friend and co-author @jasminekgani.bsky.social 😊

It's critical to read about this & oppose it. The "terrorism" label is a political weapon for oppressing Palestinians, Muslims, and/or people of color. That's what it was designed for within US legal regimes. There is no way to reform or expand the label that undoes its fundamental colonial nature.

I’ve created a starter pack for those working on terrorism, counterterrorism, etc. let me know if you’d like to be added !

go.bsky.app/XNdPyw

Our virtual Encyclopaedia is online! 📣📣📣
On our website rewritingpeaceandconflict.net you can discover our texts and podcasts.
@postcolh.bsky.social @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @anikaoettler.bsky.social @teraqerat.bsky.social @sidtrip.bsky.social @manuelaboatca.bsky.social

Editors’ Introduction: Decoloniality, criticality, and abolition - can Critical Terrorism Studies remain “critical”? Published in Critical Studies on Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2024)

If you care about abolishing and critiquing idea of the war on terror as a political project , you should give my colleague @rmkhan.bsky.social a hearty follow. She and @sarahgharib.bsky.social just published an amazing special issue, me and several others are part of : doi.org/10.1080/1753...

The shifting goalposts of extremism and the right to protest UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's emergency press conference on Friday 1st March warned against the 'rise of extremism' in Britain. He was not referring to the extremism of the UK's militarism; nor the ...

""Militarist-nationalism is the perennial mechanism through which the state enacts division and blame, and through which fundamental freedoms are curtailed."

My blogpost on the increased suppression of dissent & scapegoating of racialised communities in the UK

Teach-in on Gaza Tuesday 23 January 2024 in Sr Andrews

Our second Teach-in on Gaza, next Tuesday @ St Andrews 👇

The Moral Imagination Crisis in Germany’s Approach to Palestine There has always been a strange unspoken pact between Germany and the Arab world. The Arabs were less outraged by German support for Israel than by that of the US and UK. This was in part due to the w...

Dear all, I have now posted the English and German versions of the Der Spiegel article on my site. I restored some of the content in the English version that was removed in the German edition. amroali.com/2024/01/the-...

At World’s End: Palestine, the ICJ, and a New Dawn in International Law What can I do? Many of us have repeatedly asked this question in the past months. We predicted the revolution would not be televised; we did not anticipate the genocide would. Scholars of anti-colo…

"The ICJ faces a stark choice: find in favour of South Africa and indicate provisional measures or damn international law into oblivion."

At World’s End: Palestine, the ICJ, and a New Dawn in International Law - Mohsen Alattar @opiniojuris.bsky.social

Terrorism, counter-terrorism, and the permissibility of violence A roundtable event from the Critical Studies in Terrorism Working Group and BRISMES.

I’ll be speaking on this panel next Friday on framings of terrorism that permeate national and international discussion on Palestine and Israel
Online, open to all, but registration required

This Wednesday, St Andrews - Readings of the Gaza Monologues, first-hand testimonies of Palestinian children in Gaza 👇

Special Relationship Forged in the Pyre of International Law The US administration has irreversibly staked its reputation on one of the most extreme Israeli governments in the state's 75 year history (though fellow scholars of Israel-Palestine might argue the d...

Special relationship forged in the pyre of international law

"The US administration has irreversibly staked its reputation on one of the most extreme Israeli governments in the state’s 75-year history"

A key piece of German remembrance culture is the erasure of longer histories of imperialism & white supremacy in Germany and Europe at large. On this, I'd recommend:

Johnny Pitts' "Afropean": www.penguin.co.uk/books/300186...

Hans Kundnani's "Eurowhiteness": www.hurstpublishers.com/book/eurowhi...

Open letter calling on UKRI to assert its independence from government interference. UKHE academics can add signatures here👇 docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Israel-Palestine live: Communications blackout as heaviest strikes hit Gaza Journalists and activists report widespread cellular and internet outages across besieged enclave

A Palestinian telecommunications provider says there is now a complete blackout of connectivity in the besieged Gaza Strip: ‘The intense bombing in the last hour caused the destruction of all remaining international routes linking Gaza to the outside world.’

This, by @rmkhan.bsky.social, is so so good.

"in the vast majority of cases absolutely no attempt at defining religious terrorism is made at all; instead, its meaning is ... assumed to be common sense, as it is based on an essentialist, & as I argue colonial & racial, understanding of religion..."

Petition: Seek a ceasefire and to end Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip We want the Government to seek a ceasefire and also seek to address the root cause of the current conflict by promoting dialogue and advocating for the end of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and G...

If in the UK, please sign this petition. At 100,000 signatures it will be debated in the Parliament:
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Interesting and topical article by @rmkhan.bsky.social:

"The coloniality of the religious terrorism thesis"

published in Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social

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Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group Statement on Gaza. Full text is available at https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/cst/news/critical-studies-terrorism-working-group-statement-gaza

Since the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group has not officially migrated to BlueSky yet, I am sharing our statement on Gaza here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

ISA Online Panel on State Violence on 19th October - 1PM BST, 8AM ET.

Join us next week for this ISA panel on State Violence.

I'll be discussing racial militarism & state violence as features of the (post)colonial state.

Register here: isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

w/@tsolomon.bsky.social, Alexandria Innes, Leonie Fleischmann, Sasikumar Sandaram #Polisky