Latest posts tagged with #CompetingPerspectives on Bluesky
Does the Gaza peace plan violate the self-determination rights of the Palestinian people?
Nandini Bulchandani argues that the UN Security Council is practicing colonialism. #CompetingPerspectives opiniojuris.org/2026/02/03/r...
What explains the claim of a Nigerian genocide against Christians? Chris Olaoluwa Ògúnmọ́dẹdé says that a global network of Christians has mobilized political support in the US. #CompetingPerspectives #HumanRights www.worldpoliticsreview.com/nigeria-chri...
Is the Arctic protected by “collective rights”? Delli Santi wants an Arctic Treaty to “transform the fragility of [the Arctic’s] ice into hope, and the logic of power into the constraint of global justice.” #CompetingPerspectives #MakingIL #EnvironmentalLaw www.justiceinfo.net/en/154707-fa...
Tech matters in war. “Institutions of war are increasingly mediated by corporations.” Is sovereignty being destroyed? Is the “state in retreat”? #CompetingPerspectives opiniojuris.org/2025/11/03/e...
Putin says he is changing the world order by leading the rise of a “Global Majority.” But he can’t attend APEC or the G20 because of his ICC arrest warrant. I guess it’s hard to lead. #CompetingPerspectives #CriminalLaw on.cfr.org/4qAJG9i
European governments understand that conflict with Rusia has already begun. But -- Ulrike Franke argues – European firms are utterly unprepared. It’s time for that to change. #CompetingPerspectives #UseOfForce www.worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-hybri...
The Catholic Church is returning artifacts taken from indigenous communities in Canada. Negotiations are ongoing about how to transfer objects taken from individuals in the 1920s and during the residential schools era. #CompetingPerspectives #BreakingIL #HumanRights www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
France & Senegal are awaiting a report on the Thiaroye massacre. During WWII, African troops protested late pay & a massacre ensued. France acknowledges the massacre, & Senegal wants an account of events. #CompetingPerspectives #BreakingIL #HumanRights f24.my/BVBM.X
States keep recognizing Palestine. Will this push Israel to annex the West Bank? One thing seems clear: most people in the region don’t want a two-state solution. They don’t think it’s possible. #CompetingPerspectives #ArmedConflict www.wsj.com/world/middle...
The West Bank is filled w ancient archeological sites. Israel & the PA agree the sites are being looted by Palestinians. But they can’t agree on how to protect the sites so that history is protected. #CompetingPerspectives www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...
A new Chinese report refers to US “freedom of navigation” exercises as “gunboat diplomacy.” China appears to be challenging UNCLOS. Free beer on offer to any native Chinese speaker (preferably with IL training) who can translate the doc into English. #SeaLaw #CompetingPerspectives sc.mp/2n3xx
Israelis are changing how they talk about the war in Gaza. Photographs of Gazan children are appearing in the streets of Israel, akin to the photographs of the October 7 hostages. Opinions may be shifting. #CompetingPerspectives #ArmedConflicts www.wsj.com/world/middle...
End of an era: France has completed its military withdrawal from Senegal. France now has no permanent military presence in West or Central Africa. Au revoir, Marianne. #CompetingPerspectives #UseOfForce aje.io/6vsei7
Pity Algeria. Nothing is going its way. Morocco is “winning” in Western Sahara. The Wagner Group is fighting along its southern border. And people are saying its indigenous identity is a “Franco-Zionist construct.” #CompetingPerspectives #UseOfForce www.ft.com/content/f866...
History matters: In 1975, India forcibly sterilized 8 million men to control its population growth. Security forces raided villages, looking for men to kidnap for vasectomies. Muslim communities were targeted because of their high birth rates. #CompetingPerspectives #HumanRights aje.io/7gn55n
History matters: During WWII, the French Vichy government stole the possessions of Jews. A new book (in French) traces the history of a program to return stolen pianos to their rightful owners as an attempt at restitution and reconciliation. #CompetingPerspectives #BreakingIL f24.my/BGWP
History matters: Belgium is attempting to prosecute a former diplomat for the 1961 murder of Congolese leader Lumumba. Lumumba helped lead his country to independence but was then removed from power and executed with assistance from Belgium. #CompetingPerspectives #CriminalLaw f24.my/BFx0.X
Sea Shepherd, an environmental NGO, is helping Italy to crack down on illegal fishing off the coast of Sicily. #CompetingPerspectives #BreakingIL #SeaLaw #EnvironmentalLaw
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Western conservative NGOs want to promote “family values” in Africa. Western liberal NGOs are accusing them of suggesting that “queerness is un-African.” What? Homosexual conduct is illegal throughout Africa. #CompetingPerspectives #HumanRights
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In Europe, people like green energy but they don’t want a windmill in their backyard. So how do communities build local support for renewable energy projects? #CompetingPerspectives #EnvironmentalLaw www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
A British man dug up Buddha’s ashes and found precious gems in 1898. Now his descendants are auctioning them. India says the gems don’t belong to the descendants and they belong to India. #CompetingPerspectives #BreakingIL www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
Al-Jazeera blames Jerusalem wildfires on “green colonialism.” It says if Jews hadn’t planted “non-indigenous” trees and “invasive flora”, then there would not have been anything for arsonists to burn. Now that’s just funny. #CompetingPerspectives #EnvironmentalLaw #Antisemitism aje.io/mn7gmy
Nigeria is a Christian-majority state. But many are turning to indigenous African religion. When they learn about colonial atrocities towards Africans, Christianity doesn’t seem so nice. #CompetingPerspectives #HumanRights aje.io/f5rxxc
GOAL!!! Greenland wants to become a member of UEFA--the Union des associations européennes de football. Next up: FIFA. Then … who knows? The United Nations?!? The path to statehood through sport. #CompetingPerspectives www.ejiltalk.org/greenlands-a...
History matters: In Zimbabwe, race-based land reclamation and expropriation from white landowners continues to haunt society. Instead of giving land to the poor, black elites kept the land for themselves. Is this how “land reform” should work? #CompetingPerspectives #HumanRights aje.io/3lnix1
A traveling puppet show called “The Herd” is in Lagos. The show is moving from Central Africa to the Arctic, highlighting climate change. At each stop, artists make new puppets, teaching about the environment. #CompetingPerspectives #EnvironmentalLaw www.africanews.com/2025/04/21/t...
History matters: France has created a new historical commission to examine Haiti’s independence, in which Haitians paid to free themselves from slavery. France is promising “the truth.” Haitians want reparations. #CompetingPerspectives #BreakingIL f24.my/B6M8
Who gets self-determination? A bunch of people in Alberta don’t like Canada. They want to join the US. One argues: “Texas used to be part of Mexico, so why can’t Alberta be part of the [US]?” Man of reason or “treasonous kook”? #CompetingPerspectives www.thefp.com/p/meet-the-a...
Charli Carpenter says: “The World Could Use a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty.” Her arguments perfectly show sociological arguments about how law works: existence of new laws implies people will follow them. #CompetingPerspectives #UpholdingIL #CriminalLaw www.worldpoliticsreview.com/treaty-crime...
Two scholars from Qatar want to “de-Christianiz[e]” international law. But they mostly seem to hate Jews, Zionism, and AIPAC. This is #TWAIL. #CompetingPerspectives
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