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23 Jun The Wagner Group’s Alleged Weaponization of Social Media in West Africa: How Sharing Degrading Content May Constitute an International Crime
has already been opened at the ICC, if the acts in question are connected, it is likely that opening a case regarding them would be more easily justified in terms of gravity. Nevertheless, the serious degradation of the victims, the severe mental suffering inflicted on those who may know they are being filmed and their families who see the footage, and the fact that similar acts have been prosecuted as war crimes on their own in domestic jurisdictions demonstrate that the gravity threshold should be met. Should the ICC decide...
02 Mar Deterring the Next Invasion: Applying the Accumulation of Events Theory to Cyberspace
...of Events Theory, or Nadelstichtaktik (needle prick). During the 1970s, Israel invoked Nadelstichtaktik to justify its bombardment of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strongholds in Lebanon as being in response to a series of small-scale attacks by the PLO. Under Israel’s theory, though each individual act of terrorism by the PLO may not have risen to the level of armed attack triggering an Article 51 right to self-defense, the sum of the combined consequences of the campaign of terrorist attacks crossed that threshold. The primary thrust of this theory is that...
31 Aug Symposium: Saving Critical International Legal Pedagogy from Formalists, Reactionaries, and Pandemics
...Robert A. Williams Jr.’s quip is biting: “They are law professors, after all, so they don’t listen to other people’s stories.” But the diagnosis of the three scholars in this section is more insidious, still. In this age of virtual lecturing, asynchronous recordings, casualisation, surveillance, and punishment, critical legal scholars are at risk. We are, to borrow a fitting adage, handing them the rope with which to hang us. Brendan Ciarán Browne exploits his ‘above-the-bar’ privilege to elicit awareness of the dangers of teaching about Palestine in the virtual lecture...
17 Jul Symposium on PMSCs: Ukraine’s New Bill on PMSCs – A Possible Pandora’s Box for Operations Abroad?
...arms market and military training to non-state actors aligned with their interests, showing a low-key but steady rise in Africa. In the Middle East, the US-based PMSC UG Solutions has reportedly been operating in Palestine to manage checkpoints in the Gaza strip, operating in a major volatile environment. Threats posed by PMSC operations are often difficult to define, as each region has its own distinctive features, and Ukraine is no exception. The country’s Draft Law on PMSCs was developed in the context of the crime of aggression committed by the...21 Dec State Responsibility for Citizenship in India: Lessons from Myanmar, and the CERD Inter-State Communications Mechanism
...the ICERD committee is hearing inter-state disputes, and not just complaints from individuals. This means that another state that alleges a violation of the provisions of the treaty can approach the ICERD committee. Currently, the committee is considering two complaints by Qatar against Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as one by Palestine against Israel. This legal route may well be initiated by another state against India, in relation to the discriminatory provisions of the Constitutional Amendment Act of 2019, on the basis of a violation of the CERD convention. While...26 Nov Weekday News Wrap: Monday, November 26, 2012
The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change kicks off today in Doha, Qatar, for a last ditch effort to negotiate new emission reductions before the current ones expire at the end of the year. The Guardian has an article about what to expect. The BBC has an article about Mahmoud Abbas’ (non-)role in the recent Gaza conflict and the impact thereof on the upcoming UN vote on observer status for Palestine. Abbas has called on Britain to support the Palestinian...10 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 10, 2012
...Peace Prize in Oslo, but not without criticism. Israel’s ambassador to the US has told in an interview to Fox News that Israel will respond if Syrian chemical weapons fall in the hands of Israel’s enemies, such as Hezbollah. Critics of US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, argue that she is protecting Rwanda by not criticizing its role in the eastern DRC. ASIL has published an Insight into the legal implications of the UN General Assembly vote on Palestine. Beijing tightens rules against anti-China protests as Tibetan self-immolations rise....22 Nov Overcoming the Veto to Save Lives
[Mona Ali Khalil is an internationally recognized public international lawyer with 25 years of UN and other experience dealing with the rule of law and international peace and security efforts including peacekeeping, sanctions, disarmament and counterterrorism.] In the face of a veto by any permanent member of the UN Security Council blocking enforcement action against the mass atrocities in Palestine, Myanmar, Syria and Yemen and elsewhere, is the international community helpless to help – failing to fulfill its responsibility to protect? Proponents of the use of force for purposes of...
03 Oct People Make the World: A Conversation with Georges Abi-Saab
...scholar, he railed against the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, against zionist ethno-chauvinism, and against domination more widely; likewise, as a professor of literature, he rallied against cognitive and ideological obfuscations. Said was particularly disdainful of mercenary intellectuals—those who followed the herd and commodified their intellectual work in exchange for status, influence, or invitations to boards, consultancies, and other baubles. By contrast, he valued intellectuals who acted as “insurgents”, characters who not only critique existing systems of power but who are courageous enough to use their knowledge to destabilise them...