In this chapter, I argue that the process of negotiating power-sharing with Bangsamoro armed groups entrenched notions of Bangsamoro ancestral domain and self-determination, all while indigenous peoples' claims to their ancestral domain and self-determination were being sidelined.
Awesome freebie from Oxford University Press #Chi2026
So apparently Johnson and Vance are Just War Theory experts now. As someone who used to lecture on this, I'd be interested in their detailed explanations of: jus ad bellum and the legitimacy of the attack on Iran in the absence of an imminent threat...
I love this app! ☺️
I'm in Barcelona for #CHI26, presenting my paper "Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social Media" Friday in the 9am "Community Governance and Moderation" session.
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Looking forward to your presentation!
I'm in Barcelona all week to attend CHI 2026 - the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Happy to meet up with anyone interested or doing work on tech and governance, public policy, and human rights. Send me a quick note here if you are around!
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Thank you!
My chapter examines the tension between the pursuit of negative peace & the achievement of a post-conflict political order that respects and promotes human rights, particularly indigenous peoples' rights, looking at the Bangsamoro peace processes in the Philippines.
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Excited to finally see this out in the world! It's a fantastic collection, and I am proud to have contributed a chapter
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I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
This law is a straightforward case of apartheid. Apartheid is an international crime. Every legislator who voted for it, every military police office who prosecutes a crime under it, every judicial officer who applies it, is committing an international crime.
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We must all start calling out the absurd breaches of international law by the current US Government- this one clearly breaches UN obligations but few seem to call it out: Judge never reconsidered working at ICC despite sanctions www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Maybe this is too international law of me, but you can’t liberate women by slaughtering school girls.
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Calculus
Social, Economic, and Political Thought
Performance for Radio
Non-Western Literary Criticism
Basic Lifesaving/Lifeguard Training
"All the stories about alien abduction and spaceships? They already happened. Entire mass populations moved; forcibly dematerialised. How much more alien do you think it gets than slavery?"
Kodwo Eshun in The Last Angel of History
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Looking for specialist medical negligence solicitors in the UK. Is there anyone here who could help or who could make a referral? Thank you!
A CAUSE OF THE PRESENT CRISIS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW I. International law is at present obviously facing a crisis. With the exception of the diplomatic and consular fields, almost all the rules of public international law have been constantly violated. Particularly subject to violation have been the rules concerning the use of force in international relations. The weak or weakened norms on the prohibition of the threat or use of force are not complied with; their binding force is not established. These phenomena reflect a lamentable truth of our age, that international relations are not governed by international law but by the balance of power. The present-day crisis of international law stems from the fact that states, especially the larger ones, do not regard its rules as binding upon them. They treat the law as recommendations or as non-binding rules of international courtesy or morality. Such an attitude by states toward international law is dictated by many causes, the main one being the priority given to individual political interests. However, one of those causes is also the over-politization of intemational law in terms of denying independent existence to international legal norms
"The present-day crisis of international law stems from the fact that states, especially the larger ones, do not regard its rules as binding upon them."
Miodrag Sukijasović, American Journal of International Law 1971. Gentle reminder that international law is always in crisis.
Read @yusrasuedi.bsky.social's newest explainer: The U.S. has only stepped back from parts of the UN system, and withdrawn from one treaty: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The U.S. remains bound by the UN Charter.
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"Unapologetic defiance of law is much more dangerous – for the law and hence for global stability – than violations couched in, however implausible, legal apologia, as previous US military interventions often were."
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Revisiting this article from last year:
'As we spoke about the condition of international law writ large, he slipped into the past tense: “It was a way of challenging brute uses of force, and that is no longer there.”'
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Not to make this about Kelsen but Kelsen warned us that "national law monism" (the view that one's own legal system is the only valid legal system) is the legal theory of imperialism and militarism.
