Interested in gender & military? Check out the Advances in Critical Military Studies series, ed by @victoriambasham.bsky.social & Sarah Bulmer. I am delighted that Sex & the Nazi Soldier appeared there. This WE books are 50% off @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-and...

Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...

Another 2024 Grant Project Complete 🎖️ Refreshing for a Younger Generation – Cheshire Military Museum Our grant helped the museum create new displays & learning materials to engage school groups & families with Cheshire’s military history. Read more 👉 www.armymuseums.org.uk/amot-2024-gr...

Call for Papers 📢 Special Issue on "Towards a Responsible AI in the Military? The Politics of Ethics of AI-enabled Weapons" in Critical Military Studies Keydates: Abstracts - December 12, 2025 Full papers - June 1, 2026 Publication ~ mid-2027 meaningfulhumancontrol.de/wp-content/u...

The use of drones in armed conflicts has increased dramatically since 2020. Lauren Spink writes that urgent, collective action is needed to reduce civilian harm and suffering from drone attacks around the world. www.justsecurity.org/123474/drone...

Are you going to #BISA2026? @drswhite.bsky.social, @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social Katie Hodgkinson and I have two CPFs for your consideration: Roundtable: "Integrating a youth lens across Intl Studies". Panel: "Shaping the intl through a lens of accountability to children & young ppl"

I'm honored to appear in the Journal of International Political Theory in a series on "Global Crises and Utopian Hope." My article: "Children and their 'Right to be Heard': On a Child-Friendly Politics in an Age of Polycrisis."  journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A short 🧵 on my piece —

🔔Call for Papers🔔 Graduate Panel: Including Indigenous Nations in International Relations Two participants will be selected and paired with an expert from the Indo-Pacific to discuss their work. This is an opportunity to gain mentorship in conference presentation and writing. >>> bit.ly/4gWF5Kj

#DYK War zones are breeding grounds for drug-resistant infections. Gaza, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine: collapsed health systems + chaotic antibiotic use = antimicrobial resistance exploding. Militarism isn’t just killing people. It’s killing the medicines that could save them.

"Rights Education and the Children's University," now published in vol. 24, no. 4 of the Journal of Human Rights. For those without institutional access, please contact me for the e-offprint link.

121 charities have urged the government to bring children's rights in England in line with Scotland & Wales. The changes, in 2 proposed amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill include placing a statutory duty on ministers to protect children’s rights. www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

National Atomic Testing Museum (Las Vegas) rebranded as The Atomic Museum in 2022 and has been positioning itself as a Las Vegas attraction.

from banal militarism to "cute" militarism

McMaster Children and Youth University: Upcoming events

Research WITH young people! CJPH @cjphrcsp.bsky.social now requires authors to describe how young people are involved in research that affects them. VOICE youth #JaynaLingLunny & faculty @memacdonald.bsky.social @francocarnevale.bsky.social promoted this policy! Our editorial doi.org/10.17269/s41...

Children grieve too! In this paper, we contest views of children as immature, used to justify their exclusion from discussions about death. This exclusion breaches children’s participation rights. We propose a rethinking that recognizes young people as active moral agents. doi.org/10.1177/0030...

Ratified by every UN member state except the US, though the US has signed it.

"This matters because children are themselves a vulnerable group, with few individual rights, and little autonomy. ... When we treat dislike for vulnerable humans as a personality quirk, a temperament issue...we set the stage for a society that abdicates its duty to care for the next generation."

Newly published...

Happy to share that my project, ‘Childhood and Public Memory: Place, Presence, and Everyday Pedagogies of Remembrance,’ has been funded by a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Insight Grant. Brief project description here: marshallbeier.com/research/

🎉 Welcome to #EWIS2025 in Krakow!

Plenary time! 🤓 #EWIS2025

Work in a museum in the Midlands? Come along to Museum Development Midlands' free, online Coffee and Connect session on 9 July - our Head of Programmes Laura will share how to make your museum more welcoming & accessible to families using our Manifesto ⭐

Seeking contributions for a volume on gender & national security. Proposal for July 15 / FFP/WPS & Natsec, mainstreaming, gender backlash, theoretical reflections, country case studies, etc. all welcome. drive.google.com/file/d/14lPN...

I am absolutely delighted to announce that my first book, Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South, was published last week with @brisunipress.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/girls-power-...

“#Canada has the opportunity to once again take a leadership role in disarmament by actively supporting the negotiation of a legally binding treaty prohibiting and regulating the use of ‘killer robots’ or #AutonomousWeapons systems.” wpsn-canada.org/2025/05/29/w...

One of the Las Vegas "Miss Atomic Bombs" has been identified! apnews.com/article/miss... This was part of Las Vegas using the Nevada Nuclear Test Site as a tourism draw.

Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes

Global health forums like the World Health Assembly, where the pandemic agreement was recently approved, need to fully incorporate the voices and expertise of young people in the Global South, where 90 percent of the world’s 15- to 24-year-olds live.   thebulletin.org/2025/05/youn...

In 2015, Critical Studies on Security published a special issue on 'Children, Childhoods, and Security Studies'. For the tenth anniversary of the special issue, the journal's Interventions section is publishing a collection of short reflections /1

Just rereleased in paperback. @hmberents.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social

🗓️ The 9th World Congress on Family Law & #Children's Rights will take place in July 2025 and Damon Martin of International Social Service Australia, an alum of our Landry Child Protection Professional Training program, will speak about international kinship care! Register: tinyurl.com/2s4d523f

In our latest HW podcast episode, historians Michael Roper and Shaul Bar-Haim speak to Laura Clouting, the curator of an exhibition on war and psychology at the Imperial War Museum, about their intrigue over the story it tells. www.historyworkshop....

Delighted to contribute to the Disorder of Things symposia on @paulcinnamon.bsky.social & @drljshepherd.bsky.social's book, 'Governing the Feminist Peace'. Come for the feminist musings. Stay for the blue banded bees. thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/07/e...

"Since its entry into force, the TPNW has begun to emerge as an unexpected yet indispensable forum for questioning whether the logic of deterrence itself makes sense in a world that cannot afford the consequences of failure," writes Olamide Samuel. Read the new article below. ⬇️

Thailand becomes the 68th State to fully prohibit all corporal punishment of children! Huge congratulations to the Government of Thailand on this landmark achievement - making it clear that no level of violence against children is acceptable or lawful❤️ Read more👉 bit.ly/thailand68th

A little over two years ago I received an invitation to contribute to this new International Relations resource, but on a topic I felt others could speak to better than me. 1/3 www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg...

Looks like quite a few of my publications were scraped.

We are sorry to learn of the death of philosopher Sandra Harding, who has worked with us on many books over the past several decades. Our condolences to her family, colleagues, friends, and students. buff.ly/UPtMrBQ

Missed getting this last year, so obligatory ISA book photo with excellent co-editor @hmberents.bsky.social #ISA2025 @brisunipress.bsky.social

How can children participate in assessing the realisation of their rights? Hosted by Lastensuojelun Keskusliitto meant for everyone interested in developing and advancing children’s right to participate in reporting to UNCRC 📆 26/03/2025 ⏰13:00 to 14:30 (CET) 📍Online www.lskl.fi/tapahtumat/h...

Canadian universities look pretty similar across the country, but this illustration by @caut.bsky.social illustrates the profound variation in where they get their money. www.caut.ca/bulletin/202...

Youth subcultures used flamboyant fashion and jazz to reject Nazi conformity. Read more here ⤵️

This morning searing , exemplary reporting and investigation by @wendygillis @jpags They are doing the reticent Coroner’s and Ontario Ombudsman’s work These reporters have created a moment for children and families in Ontario We must seize it. www.thestar.com/news/gta/nev...

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Striking data on how X has declined as a platform for academics to share research. Over 50% decline since Musk took over...