Dans le désert libyen, le chassé-croisé des réfugiés soudanais qui fuient ou retournent sur leur terre

Mediapart reveals a memo from the UAE Foreign Ministry unveiling part of its strategy to interfere in the French public debate on Islam, specifically targeting the Muslim Brotherhood, through contacts with high profile researchers or senior civil servants.

An excellent, devastating critique of a field of policy practice & academic study that became an industry of liberal institutionalism all about procedure rather than substance, by @wlacher.bsky.social & @yguichaoua.bsky.social: The Demise of Conflict Studies dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

It's great more and more folks are talking about ICE. But more and more people need to start talking about the private sector making their crimes possible. One key culprit? Palantir which is working on a tool for ICE to help them find deportation targets www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Gaza and the long collapse of the field of conflict studies - important piece by @wlacher.bsky.social and Yvan Guichaoua dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

I'm posting this piece one more time before going back to my regular unnoticed posts. Just to say thank you to @dissentmag.bsky.social for a fantastic editing process and to everyone who engaged with our arguments

Impressive and brutal reflexive piece on conflict studies by two leading voices in the field: @yguichaoua.bsky.social & @wlacher.bsky.social A short 🧵 dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

A thread unpacking recent #RSF weapons-supply dynamics in Sudan, & how a set of external shocks is now reshaping how the #UAE moves materiel to Hemedti's forces - from the Turko-Egyptian rapprochement and the Red Sea fallout to the evolving Saudi-Emirati rivalry. threadreaderapp.com/thread/20108...

Conflict studies has outlived the world that created it. As wars escalate, the field is losing relevance, access, and moral authority. A sobering, necessary read by @yguichaoua.bsky.social @wlacher.bsky.social on how knowledge, power, and war intersect today. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

“What happens next for conflict studies is somewhat moot.” Brutal kicker to a fantastic piece that all of us who are in or were in the #peacebuilding field should read. I especially appreciate the lack of retconning.

Great assessment of the growing irrelevance of conflict studies from @yguichaoua.bsky.social & @wlacher.bsky.social. I remember during Trump 1 getting halfway through a lecture in my human rights class in R2P when I realized it was no longer relevant. It’s gotten steadily worse since.

In the 2020s, wars in Sudan & Gaza have reshaped global conflict, but the academic field meant to study them is in crisis. Are conflict studies losing their purpose? @wlacher.bsky.social & @yguichaoua.bsky.social explore this question in @dissentmag.bsky.social 👇👇 dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Important piece from @yguichaoua.bsky.social @wlacher.bsky.social. As someone who is wondering whether she should continue to teach "International conflict management" rename the class "conflict making" or eliminate it, I'd like to offer a friendly critique. 1/11 dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

An intriguing analysis of the state of the field, raising long-overdue questions about whether, and how, the study of conflict and violence can be salvaged by disentangling it from its legacy as 1990s policy science.

Our discipline, Conflict Studies, is in trouble. Wolfram and I try to explain the reasons. Comments welcome!

As the comforting illusions of the post-Cold War order are irrevocably crumbling, Wolfram & his colleague's reflections on professional paths, disciplinary logics, and political commitments certainly strike a chord. Well worth a read!

Well worth a read.

Our winter issue, Socialism in the City, is out now! Featuring @resnikoff.bsky.social @wlacher.bsky.social @yguichaoua.bsky.social @awhf.bsky.social @alanyan.bsky.social @atossaaraxia.bsky.social @mmschwartz.bsky.social @cgmaisano.bsky.social @arvinalaigh.bsky.social @ninasparling.bsky.social

a very lucid analysis of the growing academic and moral crises in this field

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

Italy’s decision to return ICC suspect Almasri Najim to Libya, and the Court’s muted response, undermines international justice and harms victims of crimes against humanity, most of them refugees and migrants. Such disregard for international law must have consequences, says ECCHR's Allison West.

Nothing to see here - just Germany’s interior minister visiting a wanted war criminal, while a genocide unfolds under his watch.

"The plan includes the construction of “cities” made of containers (residential caravans) within the green zone, each designed to house around 25,000 people within an area not exceeding one square kilometre. These cities are to be surrounded by fences and checkpoints" That's a prison, not a city

When did you stop posting on X? Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes. Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse. Government: We're still posting there.

I mean sure, but you know who else helped? Germany. Germany's behaviour during the 2-year long carnage in Gaza also helped. You cannot pick and choose. International law is not a menu. You have to respect it. Always. Otherwise it breaks down and then we're where we are now. #IntLaw #Germany

“The speed and thoroughness of the Saudi victory over the UAE is as stunning in its own way as was Israel's decapitation of Hezbollah last year.” abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/the-saudi-ua...

In 2019, Germany formally classified a nativist movement as extremist. In 2026, the movement’s ideals are standard mainstream politics across Europe and the U.S. buff.ly/rW9Ip5s

For Palestinians living near Israel’s demarcation line in Gaza, the war never stopped. For months, the Israeli military has fired on residents in areas near the boundary, killing hundreds and displacing thousands. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0... by the great @cheesemanab.bsky.social

Grateful for the chance to be in dialogue on this topic!

Emirati interference and influence operations in European politics probably deserve far more sustained attention than they have received so far.

I'm happy to announce my book "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic" is now available for pre-order!

In my latest post, I argue that the agendas of the rival governments & proxies supported by Saudi Arabia & the UAE around the Red Sea will complicate, if not derail, attempts to repair the two countries’ relationship Mischief in Arabia—and its ripple effects open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

Israeli occupation forces have detonated an entire neighbourhood in Khan Younis. Info and picture via the Palestinian journalist Motasem A Dalloul.

Quite apart from the question of whether they are strategically unwise or not, European leaders' reactions are also simply and utterly shameful.

It was such an honor for me to be in conversation with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social someone I deeply admire and respect, about empire, capital, sudan and the uae in the Fumnambulist. thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending. They include some of the world’s most prominent and outspoken aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders: apnews.com/article/gaza...

🚨L’attaque impitoyable d’Israël contre l’aide humanitaire se poursuit à Gaza. Après l’UNRWA, 37 ONG internationales majeures (ACF, MSF, MdM, HI, NRC, Oxfam, etc.) dont plusieurs ONG françaises, sont interdites d’accès à Gaza. ❌ Un rouage d’une politique génocidaire aux conséquences catastrophiques !

“À Gaza, plus de 85 % des habitations ont été détruites, tandis qu’Israël continue de bloquer l’entrée des camions et des matériaux nécessaires à la reconstruction. En l’espace d’une seule semaine à la mi-décembre, au moins cinq enfants sont morts de froid, faute de logements adaptés.”

"The RSF renewed its interest in Kufrah, Libya, after political pressure last year complicated its use of a supply line through a remote airstrip in eastern Chad, significantly closer to the frontlines in Darfur, according to officials and experts."

A History of Outsourced Violence: The Rise of the RSF, LNA, and Wagner Group My @smallarmssurvey.bsky.social Situation Update on historic mercenary economies in Sudan, Chad, Libya, and CAR, and how they've been connected for decades www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/out...

Ein NZZ-Autor verbreitet falsche Behauptungen über die ETH-Professorin Samia Henni. Die NZZ lehnt eine Richtigstellung ab, die ETH gibt ihr kaum Rückendeckung. Erst ein Gericht zwingt die NZZ zur Richtigstellung – doch die Medien schweigen dazu.

This story randomly brought back memories of a 2003 visit to the Arlit mines with a team of journalists, when the Areva subsidiary operating the mines served us whole lobsters for lunch...in the middle of the Sahara.

There's been much speculation about the 1,000 tons of #yellowcake removed by convoys from Arlit #Niger since late November. This article suggests they have been airlifted by a Russian military Antonov in several flights, via the al-Khadim airbase in eastern #Libya and Turkish airspace, to Russia.

Ukraine attacks Russian ‘shadow’ tanker off Libyan coast

The Haftars are still facilitating departures from Tobruk to Crete and Gavdos, where the number of arrivals from Libya reached a record 17,000 this year.

Et hop, un nouvel épisode des chroniques du Sahel