Zullen Israëliërs en Palestijnen ooit vrede met elkaar sluiten? Diplomaat en schrijver Benjamin Duerr weet veel over vredesprocessen, geschiedenis en hoe een duurzame vrede tot stand kan komen. dekanttekening.nl/wereld/wat-i...

'Echte onderhandelingen kunnen niet in de openbaarheid plaatsvinden', zegt diplomaat en schrijver @benjaminduerr.com. Wat Trump doet, is historisch ongebruikelijk. www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/een-goede-on...

Is the Prohibition on the Use of Force Collapsing? My latest @carnegieendowment.org, with Stewart Patrick: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Vor 60 Jahren fielen die Urteile im Frankfurter #Auschwitz - Prozess. "Das kann man nie mehr wegwoschen", sagt Zeitzeuge Peter Kalb im Interview der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social : www.fr.de/politik/werd...

Must-read paper on the developments to date in the effort to establish a treaty on the prohibition, prevention, and punishment of crimes against humanity, by @leilasadat1.bsky.social, who has been central to that effort: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

TAFERELEN #49 — What can images achieve for international law? On Thursday, 11 Sept, 18:00 at FOTODOK: Lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld & photographer Tobias Bijl discuss the role of images as evidence in war crimes + genocide trials, and how they shape public memory. www.fotodok.org/evenement/ta...

“The proliferation of cease-fires in the place of lasting settlements is a symptom of the pessimistic politics of our time.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/m...

Legal Scholars and Practitioners: The Florida Journal of International Law (of which I am the faculty advisor) seeks submissions for its upcoming symposium on the law of defensive uses of force. Submissions are due by November 8. Please see below for more info and please share widely. Thank you!

The US has imposed sanctions against the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and four of its judges. We wouldn't accept this against domestic judicial officers. Why do we accept it against those enforcing international criminal law? A plan of action: www.fordhamilj.org/volume-48-is...

Do rules still matter when great powers stop pretending? @annepetersmpil.bsky.social argues yes: even cynical legal talk restrains power. Hypocrisy can keep norms alive; silence kills them. Read via DER SPIEGEL (🔒📰) 👉 www.spiegel.de/spiegel/prin... #MPILHeidelberg #AnnePeters

My interview with @forbes.com on the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine to be established within the framework of the @coe.int Council of Europe has just been published... www.forbes.com/sites/kevinh...

Kunnen we het internationale recht begraven, nu in Gaza baby’s sterven van de honger en Rusland met bruut geweld Oekraïne wil veroveren? Misschien is de internationale rechtsorde steviger dan we denken – al valt of staat alles met vertrouwen.

Laten de echte pacifisten opstaan www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/pseudopacifi...

Das Forschungskolleg lädt gemeinsam mit @prif.org herzlich zur diesjährigen Bad Homburg Conference am 19. September 2025 zum Thema »Die Verfassung der Welt. Recht und Macht in der internationalen Politik« ein. Informationen zur Teilnahme finden Sie hier: t1p.de/lsu38

Betrouwbare Bronnen 522 👉 Zeven zomerboeken 📚Honderd jaar ‘Mijn strijd’📕Premiers bij Queen Victoria 📙 Premiers in Nederland: Drees en Rutte 📖 Reagans pragmatisme 📒 Stalins obsessies 📕Den Haag stad van vrede en recht 📘 Thomas Mann: Achtung, Europa! 📚 omny.fm/shows/betrou...

Dromen van wereldvrede vanuit Den Haag. Het begon in 1899 met een jonge tsaar die vredesvorst wilde zijn. Zijn nichtje Wilhelmina vond mystiek pacifisme lariekoek. Minister Willem Hendrik de Beaufort moest laveren tussen twee lastige Romanovs. #BetrouwbareBronnen vriendvandeshow.nl/bb/episodes/...

Zelfs Israëlische mensenrechtenorganisaties spreken nu van een genocide in Gaza en al bij een dreiging daarvan is Nederland volgens het Genocide-verdrag verplicht om die dreiging te stoppen. Dit vindt NRC: buff.ly/HH8c3WP

No, Recognizing Palestine Would Not Be Contrary to International Law | by Marko Milanovic

How do we remember war, and who gets remembered? Sarajevo-born expert Sabina Tanovic on how architecture shapes memory and justice. With @stepmuis.bsky.social @aljazeera.com aje.io/iao0c5

The other laws in war: Why Ukrainians strictly obey traffic rules and wait for the light to change, even as air-raid sirens blare. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/w...

This is a problem w/ #genocide. States (& other entities) wait until people die before they call it. But genocide is a process that starts long before the dying. My book details this process & why we should focus on all the genocide crimes, not just 'killing'. www.routledge.com/From-Discrim...

According to Amos Goldberg, historian of the Holocaust (Jerusalem), what the Israeli defence minister laid out in #Rafah was clear plans for the ethnic cleansing of #Gaza: “[It is] a transit camp for Palestinians before they expel them. It is neither humanitarian nor a city.”

Significant 🔽 If it is Israel's position that there may be starvation in Gaza but that Gazans are not being starved *intentionally*, this mirrors Israel's position with regard to civilian deaths from kinetic attacks. I wrote on the int law implications of this here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Great to see “Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court” finally published! In my contribution to the volume, I re-write the ICC's decision on Bangladesh/ Myanmar in a way that foregrounds the experience of Hijra & other gender diverse people: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

The next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, is live! Chiara Giorgetti and Milena Sterio interviewed our Chair, @leilasadat1.bsky.social, about her longstanding efforts to establish a treaty on Crimes Against Humanity. Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/1bcl...

UN chief Antonio Guterres demands peace and international law, calling the devastation in Gaza a "horror show ... with a level of death and destruction without parallel in recent times" news.un.org/en/story/202...

The history of international order is usually the history of the great powers. But what can we learn from looking at worldviews of those who resisted intervention? Very pleased to have this new post available on The Conversation with my coauthor and friend @caschulz.bsky.social.

Review of “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation’: “a bloody tale of how powerful men in history repeatedly commit acts of appalling violence and cruelty, and dress them up with justifications”. issforum.org/reviews/h-di...

I’ve just published this comparison of the Vietnam and Gaza genocide debates. The former frames the latter. But the #ICJ has ways to escape the frame if it’s willing to think outside the box link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This year’s WPR summer reading list is for multilateralists who want to learn from past periods of diplomatic disruption. Read @richardgowan1.bsky.social’s recommendations here:

In this episode of the JurisDictions podcast, researcher Gabriele Chlevickaite speaks with H.E. Dr Anton Korynevych Ambassador-at-large for Ukraine, about establishing the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. 👉 Learn more: lnkd.in/eXETtsCu #internationaljustice

Colonial crimes as crimes against humanity, arguing that the concept of crimes against humanity should not be read simply through the prism of the Holocaust. doi.org/10.1093/jicj...

Afgelopen week was de NAVO top in Den Haag. Maar het was niet de eerste keer dat Den Haag even het centrum van de wereld was. In 1899 en 1907 vond er twee vredesconferenties plaats. Met @benjaminduerr.com bespreek ik de overeenkomsten. #BuitenlandMetBoswijk open.spotify.com/episode/0WZc...

👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇 Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social,‬ @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR

Are we witnessing the death of international law? www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

Sinds de oprichting van de Verenigde Naties 80 jaar geleden wisselen crises en mijlpalen elkaar af. De slagkracht van de organisatie bleek op cruciale momenten beperkt. Toch huisvest de VN nog altijd oplossingen voor mondiale problemen, schrijft diplomaat @benjaminduerr.com‬.

400 years ago, Hugo Grotius published De iure belli ac pacis (IBP). A conversation on @voelkerrechtsblog.org with @edjonesc.bsky.social and Mark Somos (@mpil.de), two of the editors of The Unseen History of International Law (@oxfordacademic.bsky.social 2025) voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-politics...

Nu met de NAVO top in Den Haag is het boek ‘De Droom van Den Haag’ over de vredesconferenties van 1899 en 1907 in Den Haag een absolute leestip voor de aankomende zomer.

Een eer om het eerste exemplaar in ontvangst te nemen van 'De Groote Vrede: Nederlandse voorvechters van een verenigd Europa 1914-1948' van Wim de Wagt. Een belangrijk boek over het belang van Europese samenwerking dat op het juiste moment komt. Avond terugkijken: spui25.nl/programma/de...

‼️🔔 Lezing Benjamin Duerr verplaatst! 🔔‼️ Door de onduidelijkheden rond de aangekondigde treinstaking op 12 juni verplaatsen we de SHN-lezing “Temmers van geweld” naar november 2025. 📅 Nieuwe datum volgt snel – houd onze kanalen in de gaten! Dank voor je begrip & tot in november!

📚 Join us at the Peace Palace Library on 17 June at 17:00 for a presentation of The Unseen History of International Law (OUP, 2024) with two of the co-authors, Mark Somos & Edward Jones Corredera. 📩 Register via email by 13 June: [email protected] or [email protected]

“I’ve spoken to a few of my colleagues at the [ICC], some of them American, who have actually resigned from their positions in the court to be able to go back to the US to avoid criminal prosecution,” says an Australian former special adviser on war crimes. More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/04/d...

Hoe relevant is het internationaal recht nog in tijden van conflict en geopolitieke spanningen? 📚 Lezing met @benjaminduerr.com 🗓️ 12 juni | 16:00 📍 Drift 25, Utrecht Met reflectie door dr. @vukusiciva.bsky.social 🔗 forms.gle/PM4Nc6BjrCGQ... #internationaalrecht #geschiedenis #geopolitiek #SHNlezing

In a new essay, Robert Keohane and the late Joseph Nye argue that soft power matters, even in the short run—and warn that by fixating on coercion, “Trump is neglecting a key source of American strength.”

Nächste Woche Mittwoch, mit Wolfgang Kaleck vom @ecchr.bsky.social, @janinadill.bsky.social, @heikekrieger.bsky.social und @boris-mijatovic.bsky.social Moderiert von Stephan Detjen 👇🏼 bsky.app/profile/boel...

#PODCAST | In Sudan, Gaza & beyond, starvation is used as a weapon of war. Why isn’t the world acting? Anne van Mourik (NIOD) talks to #famine experts Alex de Waal & Ingrid de Zwarte. Listen to this NIOD Rewind Episode via de following link: bit.ly/3FcxGZ3

Why are attacks in wars often carried out on religious holidays? Because adversaries are less prepared? Is there a legal prohibition under IHL? @diekjobst.bsky.social on @voelkerrechtsblog.org voelkerrechtsblog.org/sacred-days-...

My new article on the international thought of Hans Kelsen is now out on @globalhistjnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...