New PhD 📢 How exclusion affects the political engagement of migrants in residence and origin countries | by 🎓 Agnese Cecilia Maria Zucca @gvagrad.bsky.social 👥 Understand political inclusion of migrants and minorities as a matter of democratic legitimacy 🎤 Read the interview: shorturl.at/3WCbE

New PhD 📢 The privatisation of torture under the UN convention against Torture | by 🎓 Victoria Priori in #internationallaw @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-law.bsky.social ➡️ Who can be held criminally responsible for the crime of torture? 🎤 Read the interview: shorturl.at/GF0SU

📢 You are invited to our upcoming virtual book launch: "Will Parallel Scientific Universes Converge? Exiled Scholars in Western Academies" with Svitlana Ovcharenko, Alfred Babo, Sayed Hassan Akhlaq and Elisabeth Prügl . 🗓️ 03 October| 12:30–14:00 (CEST) 💻 Online event 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3W3y80j

In the age of digital revolution and social media, #Propaganda is proving to be more prevalent than ever. In our Opening Lecture of the Academic Year 2025-26, Professor @davidcolon.bsky.social will explain how our brains have become the target of a new global information war. 👉 shorturl.at/zFYPM

New PhD 📢 The Political Economy of Global Value Chains and Skills Governance | by 🎓 Jaewon Kim in #internationaleconomy @gvagrad.bsky.social 👁️👁️ Read the interview 🎤 shorturl.at/790JP and explore insights at the intersection of political economy, labour studies, and education policy. #education

📢You are invited to join our upcoming event "Race in the Anthropocene: Coloniality, Disavowal and the Black Horizon" with Farai Chipato, David Chandler and @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social 🗓️ 24 September| 18:30-20:00 📍 @gvagrad.bsky.social | Auditorium A2 🔗Register here: bit.ly/4mfVyKx

Congratulations to @drqv.bsky.social on winning the EISA Best dissertation Award! Read all about it in this recent interview: www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

📰 Read our latest Research Bulletin ! 🏆 Prizes awarded at 🎓Graduation Ceremony, 👥 new visiting fellows and projects, 📚latest publications, and much more ! @gvagrad.bsky.social #research #socialsciences www.graduateinstitute.ch/sites/intern...

New PhD 🎓 The Right to Truth for Families of Missing Migrants under International Human Rights Law | by Fekade Alemayhu Abebe @fekadeal.bsky.social @gvagrad-law.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social ⚖️ To what extent does international law serve to secure the right of families? 👁️ 👁️ shorturl.at/hO8Qz

📢 Nouvel article de Dominic Rohner @dominic-rohner.bsky.social dans @theconversation.com sur le commerce, la démocratie et les guerres | @gvagrad.bsky.social "…abandonner des alliés de longue date pour des avantages éphémères ne garantit ni la paix ni la prospérité." #paix shorturl.at/26ReG

New PhD 👉 The optimal setting of monetary policy, macroprudential policy, and foreign exchange interventions 🎓 by Nika Khinashvili 🎓 @gvagrad.bsky.social Which best combinations of tools and interventions can reduce the frequency and severity of economic crises? Interview 🎤 shorturl.at/gbaRp

New PhD 👉 THE RISE OF WOMEN’S ORGANISATIONS OF DIPLOMATS | by 🎓 Amena Martins Yassine 🎓 @gvagrad.bsky.social How are women diplomats’ organisations reshaping diplomacy into a more inclusive, pluralistic, and horizontal practice? Interview 👁️ 👁️ shorturl.at/aAAfs #diplomacy #relations #women

📢 Dans @theconversation.com | L’essor inattendu du judaïsme en Afrique subsaharienne, par Ayode Habib Daniel Dossou Nonvide 🎓 @gvagrad.bsky.social #histoireinternationale ✡️ Quelles revendications derrière l’émergence du judaïsme en Afrique ? #spiritualités #cultures #identités 🔗 shorturl.at/jlq0x

Bocco, Riccardo, and Ibrahim Saïd, editors. De/Colonising/Palestine. Graduate Institute Publications, 2025, 10.4000/13znp @openedition.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social Order your printed edition here! i6doc.com/en/book/?GCO...

Literacy is a human right — and essential for justice, peace, and sustainable futures. But in today’s world, being excluded from both traditional learning and the digital space creates a double barrier. Read more on The Digitalisation of Education 🔗 buff.ly/0zAjpWK #ILD2025 #DigitalEducation

New PhD 👉BEYOND THE BINARY: HOW AI SYSTEMS REDEFINE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN UNDER INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW | by 🎓Anna Rosalie Greipl🎓 @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-law.bsky.social 🪖What role do humans have left in military decision-making processes? 👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/rqdtJ

📢 Dans @theconversation.com | Quand la galaxie trumpiste accuse l’Europe de pratiquer la censure 🎓par Stefania Di Stefano, @stefaniasds.bsky.social doctorante à @gvagrad.bsky.social 🤜 régulation des réseaux sociaux: ligne de fracture entre les États-Unis et l’Union européenne 🔗 shorturl.at/iBQTA

New PhD 👉 THE CONCEPT OF TIME IN INTERNATIONAL LAW | by 🎓 Junteng Zheng 🎓 @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-law.bsky.social 🕰️ How is the ordinary concept of 'time' impacting #international #law and shaping the modern legal system? 👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/21DV8

#Anthropology #Sociology Genevieve Justin Sekumbo examines the rise and decline of the #Tanzania's offshore natural gas industry. She highlights how youth reimagined and pursued social and economic citizenship in the face of unmet development promises. An interview: shorturl.at/l5FSl

New PhD 👉 Digital technologies, mobility, and border violence in European borderlands | by 🎓 Nina Khamsy @gvagrad.bsky.social y.social @mostowlansky.bsky.social 📲 How does #ethnography reveal new links between #digital #technology and border #violence? 👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/fRKPJ

New PhD 👉 The Swiss Watch Industry: A Triangulation between Nation-State Building, Globalisation, and Culture | by 🎓 Théo Sacha Pilowsky, #anthropology #sociology @gvagrad.bsky.social ⌚ What does the Swiss watch industry reveal? 👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/gdA2P

“#Diplomacy in colonial wars was often about burying the evidence with the bodies. To speak of diplomacy and decolonisation is thus inevitably to dwell on their ironies and paradoxes.” – Professor Gopalan Balachandran Read more in Global Challenges: Diplomacy and Decolonisation 🌍 shorturl.at/IRxhW

📖 Rép centrafricaine : les énergies renouvelables peuvent-elles contribuer à la stabilité ? Dans ce pays parmi les moins électrifiés, l’ONU –via la Minusca– pourrait montrer l’exemple. #ONU #Africa @gvagrad-alumni.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @france.theconversation.com shorturl.at/uiFJL

#PhDThesis Bart Sebastiaan Gabriel examines why teaching remains marginal in IR/PS scholarship—despite being central to academic life. His thesis explores how the field frames teaching, why it’s undervalued, and how it might shift. 👉https://shorturl.at/dRKoJ

As part of our Research Festival, PhD researcher Nicolas Hafner explored the history of development studies through oral history. His work traces student voices, activism, and solidarity from Geneva to Brazil and Chile. @gvagrad-research.bsky.social 📸 www.graduateinstitute.ch/node/78571

“No longer seen as an end in itself, #trade is being weaponised to achieve non-economic goals.” – Joost Pauwelyn, Professor of International Law Read more in: The New Trade of Trade Diplomacy: What Role for Trade Negotiators in a Trade World on Fire? 🌍 shorturl.at/aDCTj

“Diplomacy was, of course, instrumental in keeping the superpowers from direct military confrontation.” – Jussi Hanhimäki, Professor of International History and Politics Read more in: The Modern Diplomat: Exposed, Endangered and Indispensable 🌍 globalchallenges.ch/issue/17/the...

As part of the Research Festival on 13 May 2025, 26 researchers shared fieldwork photos exploring the heart of their work. The jury prize went to PhD researcher Nora Doukkali for Stolen Time, capturing the stillness and erasure faced by migrants at the Darién Gap. @gvagrad-research.bsky.social

📢 Dans @theconversation.com | Fentanyl : vers une opération militaire US au Mexique ? par Khalid Tinasti @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social | @globalcdp.bsky.social 💊 Opioïdes, menaces de Trump: quels risques pour la sécurité, la diplomatie et les droits humains ? 🔗 shorturl.at/wxn82

🆕 Nouvel article sur @theconversation.com m par Vincent Chetail, professeur de droit international @gvagrad.bsky.social 👉 Il rappelle que les débats autour du terme "génocide" ne doivent pas nous détourner de l’effroyable réalité à Gaza — et l’urgence d’agir. 🔗 À lire shorturl.at/Sggtx #Gaza

👉 Nouvel article dans @theconversation.com par Laisa Branco Coelho De Almeida 🤔 Qui protège les écosystèmes marins ? Qui fixe les règles ? Alors que la ruée vers les ressources s’accélère, le #DroitInternational semble à la traîne. #Océans #Mining #DeepSea #Environnement shorturl.at/nhh8a

👉New #PhDDefense at the @gvagrad.bsky.social The politics of #gender in #peace agreement implementation. Using evidence from Colombia and an original dataset, Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos uncovers the political nature of peace agreement implementation. 👁️👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/Xyb0c

#SummerReadings : Six Recent Faculty Publications The first half of 2025 saw the publication of a selection of books by our faculty, covering a wide range of topics from the #GlobalHistory of family planning to development in #Education and more. Happy reading! 📖 👉 shorturl.at/irGZa

In a new podcast episode, we unpack the recent 12-day confrontation between #Iran and #Israel and ask: Will the ceasefire last? With Clément Therme, alumnus & former visiting lecturer at the Institute we explore who’s gaining from the current unrest—and who’s paying the price: shorturl.at/JdA43

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🔬✈️ With funding from the SNSF, researchers can gain experience formative for their careers. The Postdoc.Mobility 🧳🌍 scheme is allocating a total of 24.8 million Swiss francs to support 200 postdocs either to carry out a research project abroad or to return to Switzerland. ➡️https://buff.ly/sLWClEO

"Tehran will be suspicious about the extent to which the IAEA was used both by the Americans, the Israelis and other western intelligence to infiltrate its nuclear programme and gain knowledge that was then used to conduct strikes on Iranian facilities,” Researcher Farzan Sabet shorturl.at/ulcC6

Black swans in #InternationalLaw: why some crises trigger change in international legal discourse and others not? Marzia Marastoni's PhD thesis seeks to address this gap by exploring: Which crises are more likely to trigger changes in international legal discourse, and why? 👉 shorturl.at/oCLeF

“True participation requires more than allocating additional time in project design—it should begin from a blank slate, with no pre-set agenda” From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2265

Explorez les enjeux de la coopération internationale de l'éducation à Genève, et son influence à l’échelle mondiale 🌍 📍 Rotonde du Mont-Blanc, Genève 🗓️ Juillet 2025 👀 Entrée libre 🔗

In a new episode, Honorary Professor & Co-Director @ahcdemocracy.bsky.social Gopalan Balachandranwe explore the layered and turbulent history of #Kashmir How did we get to recent events, such as violence in Pahalgam, and what lies ahead for this deeply contested region? Listen now👉 shorturl.at/crMNI

In the last thirty years, the number of African individuals and communities claiming or seeking Jewish identity has steadily increased. Why is this the case? Focusing on Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya, Ayode Daniel Dossou provides some answers in his PhD thesis in International History. 👉 shorturl.at/Xdhl0

📚 New Book De/Colonising Palestine: Contemporary Debates Riccardo Bocco and Ibrahim Saïd, Eds A powerful contribution bringing together 38 authors and diverse perspectives for a critical exploration of the Palestine Question. 🔗 doi.org/10.4000/13znp @gvagrad.bsky.social @openedition.bsky.social

The @gvagrad-research.bsky.social's latest Research Bulletin is out, filled with publications, research events, calls for papers, and more! 👇 mailchi.mp/graduateinst...

On 8th June, @ahcdemocracy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @laurabullon.bsky.social featured in Radio Television Suisse’s programme Géopolitis on #TechOligarchs and the shifting lines between media, money, and political power. Watch here (in French): www.rts.ch/emissions/ge...

👉 New ! Explore the gendered governance of microfinance in India in this 🎥 interview with @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social, conducted by Prof. Elisabeth Prügl of @gvagrad.bsky.social A timely conversation that also sheds light on the ongoing cuts to development aid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6BM...

👉 New #PhDDefense in #DevelopmentEconomics by Carlotta Nani on #gender stereotypes within households and in the labor market. Understanding how perceptions and norms shape decisions is key to gender equality and economic growth. @gvagrad.bsky.social 📖 Read the Interview: shorturl.at/Z0sAc

📢 Join us to support survivor-centred accountability: Innovating Justice for #Afghanistan's Women & Girls: Unlocking Pathways for Universal Jurisdiction 🗓️ 16 June 2025 | 17:00 CEST 📍 Room A2, Geneva Graduate Institute 🔗 tinyurl.com/innovatejust... @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social @omaidsharifi.bsky.social

In the latest issue of Globe, @jeromed.bsky.social d.bsky.social‬ considers the significant challenges facing the new Syrian government as it attempts to reintegrate the international community in 2025: https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/news/syria-reintegrating-international-community

Comment les bénéficiaires de politiques d’action positive s’approprient-ils – et s’approprient-elles – les programmes qui leur sont destinés ? Cette question est au cœur d’une thèse de PhD en anthropologie et sociologie centrée sur les cas de la France et du Brésil, Camille Giraut. shorturl.at/ahsMr