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Asst Prof | Leiden University | Author of ‘Peacekeeping in South Lebanon’ | International Relations | UN | Gender | WPS | Middle East | Peacekeeping | WIIS Netherlands | CCL | Imm Joudeh | She/Her | Website: vfnewby.com
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Today is a very emotional one for my Syrian husband who has not been able to go home for 14 years. We are hoping this new regime will respect Syrian heritage and signals a new beginning for his country. #peaceinsyria

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Scholars interested in public engagement and policy outreach on international issues – please consider applying for our International Policy Summer Institute!

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Voices of south Lebanon We spoke to people from a handful of villages in the south back in October about what life was like after Israel intensified the war. Here are there stories. Reporting by me and Ralph Baydoun Produced by AJ Labs interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/leb...

submitted 162 days ago • 4 comments

The new Lebanon-Israel peace deal is not just old wine in new bottles. It has the potential to draw NATO states more deeply into the conflict. Our latest on #lebanon @cruffa.bsky.social theconversation.com/israel-hezbo...

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On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, I wrote about Palestinian women and the betrayal of the feminist movement in their supposed solidarity. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/worl...

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PLEASE SHARE: New PhD scholarship opportunity to work with me on my ARC-funded project examining how states and societies in Asia and the Pacific are responding to the emerging Cold War between the US and China. Details on how to apply are in the link. study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment

This story by my @washingtonpost.com colleagues about the toll of Israel's air war on Lebanon's children is devastating. "The bodies of the adults had long since been retrieved. Pieces of the children, though, were still being found everywhere." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment

We have a new 2-year postdoc position at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Peace and Conflict and Latin America focussed. Please share widely among your networks. www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

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Mine and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social article in @risjnl.bsky.social puts Women, Peace and Security in conversation with abolition feminism, as the latter shares common features with anti-militarist approaches to feminist peace underpinning some WPS activism and scholarship doi.org/10.1017/S026...

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This. youtu.be/AdtLnkH7W3A

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Started a working list of researchers, journalists, and practitioners working on humanitarian aid, peacebuilding/peacekeeping, and development in fragile and conflict-affected settings, please let me know if I missed you or anyone else who should be added! go.bsky.app/BWQc97A

submitted 182 days ago • 35 comments

As people are leaving X and joining Bluesky instead, here is a starter pack of peace and conflict researchers for all new users ⤵️ go.bsky.app/7o8tZt2

submitted 185 days ago • 36 comments

Israel's war is devastating every aspect of civilian life in Lebanon - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-war-lebanon-devastates-every-aspects-civilian-life

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A UN-backed panel has warned that famine is “imminent” in the Gaza Strip, days before a deadline imposed on Israel by the Biden administration to deliver more humanitarian supplies to the enclave or risk a cutoff of military aid.

submitted 184 days ago • 13 comments

My latest on the role of the Lebanese Armed Forces in the full implementation of #Resolution1701 #lebanon #UNIFIL theconversation.com/lebanon-peac...

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My latest for The Conversation on South Lebanon theconversation.com/idf-actions-...

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My latest with Chiara Ruffa on the situation in Lebanon theconversation.com/it-would-be-...

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Please help spread the word on the Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Gazan Women pursuing PhDs. Applications are due July 15. To learn more, click here: www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...

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Why are cats so wretchedly suspicious? Any sudden movement and my cat jumps 50 feet in the air. A new batch of wet food is always sniffed cautiously. I’ve had him 4 years. You’d think he’d know by now I am not out to get him. 🙄

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You still have time to submit your application for the 2024 Policy Outreach Award! The award will support outreach efforts from early-career scholars that convey policy implications of the scholar’s research to policy practitioners. bridgingthegapproject.org/policy-outre...

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New paper! In this theoretical study @politicsgenderj.bsky.social , I present a realist ontological basis for gendered institutions and argue for an abductive RD to produce valid knowledge about these complex entities. Ideal for feminist research. Find out more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 483 days ago • 3 comments

Germany Blocks Europe-Wide Protection of Women Against Violence Dilken Çelebi, Lisa Marie Koop, and Leokadia Melchior argue why a European harmonization of the definition of rape as a violation of the consent-based sexual act is possible and necessary under Art. 83(1)TFEU.

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🏅In one of our most read articles this week, Nadje Al-Ali and Isabel Käser interview Kurdish activists about a concept of women's science that is central to their organizing in "Beyond Feminism? Jineolojî and the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement" polisky gendersky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Hi I’m new to these parts! Thanks if you follow me 😊

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