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1) Thrilled to announce I’ve signed a new book contract with @OUPAcademic. The book explores the practices and ideas of international law in wartime, focusing on actors from the Global South and East.
Boyd van Dijk
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Boyd van Dijk
@boyd_vandijk
Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (@OUPLaw)| 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
- A short 🧵 on the Amnesty report claiming Ukrainian violations of IHL.⚡️ Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas.
- Today is the 70th birthday of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. They are the most important rules ever formulated for armed conflict and universally ratified. THREAD. #GC70
- Replying to @boyd_vandijkBut the most important critique thrown at @amnesty is that the Ukrainians are fighting a just war against illegal aggression and alien occupation, and that it would be unfair to call out their relatively marginal IHL violations compared to grave breaches by Russian aggressor.
- Replying to @boyd_vandijkThe Ukrainians are fighting an asymmetrical war against Russian aggression and acts of genocide, so it should not be surprising that their forces are operating in cities where they can fight the invader - like so many other victims of aggression/genocide have done before.
- 1) Today is the official UK publication day of my new @OUPLaw book #preparingforwar on the making of the Geneva Conventions, the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated. THREAD. global.oup.com/academic/produ…
- Several years ago I began working on a paper that recovers the role of the Global South, and of ideas of race and empire, in developing the Geneva Conventions and the global Red Cross. It’s great that it is now out in @PastPresentSoc. #IHL #ICRC academic.oup.com/past/article-a…
- Replying to @boyd_vandijkCritics are rightly wondering why Amnesty hasn't provided satellite imagery or other concrete evidence supporting its (thin) claims.
- Excited to share the release of the new @OUPHistory 'Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies.' Grateful to have contributed a chapter on the history of restraint, international law, insurgency, and decolonization. global.oup.com/academic/produ…
- when Ronald Dworkin wanted the ANC to hold a conference to discuss his proposals for “the idea of legality in S-Africa” (1987) - with the ANC rejecting them outright, calling his ideas “esoteric” and too far removed from the racist reality they lived in.
