🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!

Een waterkrachtcentrale in Congo was bedoeld om groene stroom te brengen naar lokale gemeenschappen. Bij gebrek aan afnemers is een Franse cryptocowboy ingeschakeld, en voedt de centrale nu zijn bitcoinmijn. En Brussel ziet het als een succesverhaal.

In Congo’s Virunga rainforest, millions in EU development funds were spent over a decade to reduce poverty and bring electricity to thousands of households. In the absence of buyers, Belgian Prince Emmanuel de Merode called in a French cypto cowboy, a hydroplant now powers his bitcoin mine.

Timmermans noemt de AI-tweet vol nazi-beeldtaal van Wilders terecht ‘nazi-propaganda’. Tim de Wit: ‘Heftige typering. Bent u niet bang dat Wilders u wegzet als radicaal?’ Who cares wat Wilders vindt?! Het ís nazi-beeldtaal. Waarom gaat het niet over het echte schandaal?

in Bologna for #EISAPEC25. Join our section on Friday 'Green(ing) War: Military Build-up, Warfare and Socio-Environmental Wounds' with in total 4 panels - organised together with @nicosananes.bsky.social Benjamin Neimark and Corinne Lamain

NO CONFERENCING AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE Please read and spread the following message as we gather in Bologna this week #EISAPEC25

🚨 New publication alert! Very pleased to see our work on demilitarizing conservation published. It began as an informal conversation leading up to the 2023 Biannual Political Ecology Network Conference in Durban, South Africa. Open access!

New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose For a more robustly care-full conservation Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social shorturl.at/Wsl9m

Israel has pledged to annihilate the Palestinians of Gaza so what exactly are you saying here?

POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅 The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st. See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j Spread the word.

Job announcment: post-doc at Newcastle on the War & Geos project (warandgeos.co.uk). Please share and email me with questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU169/p...

This is happening today. Please join if you are in Wageningen!

Uitstekende onderbouwing; (extreem)rechts gebruikt dit om de aandacht af te leiden van hun eigen medeplichtigheid aan genocide & andere mensenrechtenschendingen door 🇮🇱. Wat het nog kwalijker maakt, is dat de parlementaire pers deze spin kritiekloos blijft herhalen. Solidair met @katipiri.bsky.social

Join us 30th of June in Wageningen for a book presentation and roundtable discussion on Mnemonic Ecologies and conservation in Wounded Landscapes at Green Frontiers with Sonja Pieck, @georgeiorda.bsky.social David Mwambari, and Dat Nguyen. See, centreforspaceplacesociety.com/2025/06/16/b...

New article in Osiris, entitled 'Flying Rhinos', in which I follow two northern white rhinoceroses to discuss the entanglement of mid-twentieth century zoo conservation, colonialism and celebrity culture: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Een paar kritische kanttekeningen bij het recente pleidooi van de rectoren van de Nederlandse universiteiten over academische vrijheid: www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini... @brambuscher.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social @remcobreuker.bsky.social @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social @rensbod.bsky.social

Aangezien Wageningen @w-u-r.bsky.social niet eens haar eigen institutionele samenwerkingen ethisch wil toetsen - en is daarmee 1 van de 2 NL uni's die dat niet doen. Terwijl alle andere universiteiten dat wel doen - zijn wij genoodzaakt dit zelf te doen

Prince Emmanuel de Merode says he’s protecting both wildlife and people in a nature reserve in Congo. But locals and experts say Virunga National Park is fuelling violence instead with rangers accused of killings and rape. Still, the EU released another €80 million this year for a ‘green corridor.’

Wilde dieren én mensen beschermen in het oosten van Congo – dat zegt prins Emmanuel de Merode te doen. Maar volgens bewoners en experts wakkert het park Virunga juist geweld en instabiliteit aan. Toch maakte de EU begin dit jaar nog eens 80 miljoen euro vrij voor een ‘groene corridor’.

Mining companies are astute at sensing which way the political wind is blowing and adapting their pitch accordingly. Last year, warning we didn't have enough copper to stop climate change. This year, we don't have enough copper to wage war: www.ft.com/content/6a72...

I learned a lot from yesterday‘s book talk about African Parks and the militarisation of conversation www.peaceandconflict.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2025.... Thanks @esthermarijnen.bsky.social for great comments! I recommend reading on here:

📣Special 'Art and Science' edition of the Soil Science cluster seminar: Sherii Sydorenko working at the SLM group entlitled "Wildfires of war". Anika Schwarzlose and Katja Verheul two artists that will present about " Clearing - War as maintenance". When: 4th June 2025, 15:30-16:30 Where: Lumen 1✨

New publication via @politicalgeography.bsky.social 📜 How did the century’s deadliest war become invisible? In this article, I provide a detailed analysis of the tactics & strategies the Ethiopian regime & allies used to commit & conceal #TigrayGenocide. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our article is open access now! academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

‘We are soldiers now’: green militarism and (foreign-assisted) military training in conservation Article by Ivan Ashaba (@ashavin.bsky.social) and Esther Marijnen (@esthermarijnen.bsky.social) in @iajournal.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...

Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

We historians (and others) need to start mass downloading archives from places like this before they go. Regardless of your subfield, download! I'm focusing on the CIA's FOIA site, but Wilson, the National Archives, Presidential libraries etc all have to be downloaded to be preserved.

Bij de NieuwsBV: www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/d...

This is an absolutely brilliant, deeply concerning and difficult read on the impacts of military training on rangers in #Uganda from @ashavin.bsky.social & @esthermarijnen.bsky.social. It has unprecedented info from the training programmes academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...

🚨 New publication alert! Very pleased to see our work with Esther Marijnen published in @iajournal.bsky.social

🚨NEW issue out now! 📑 14 articles on the role of children in Russia's military, R2P, China and global health and more 📊 3 policy papers on the EU's policy toward Iran, Sino-US AI race and climate security 📚 30 book reviews Read NOW > academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/2

New article out with Ivan Ashaba in International Affairs. On green militarism and (foreign-assisted) military training in conservation. Where we explore how park guards are becoming soldiers, going in-depth into the training they undergo. academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...

The Dutch government decided to stop the regional program for the Great Lakes region. A program that mostly funded important projects in the east of the DR Congo. At a time that east Congo needs our attention most - and which requires a regional approach #DRC

If you are in London this Friday (21/2) please join this talk of my PhD student Amina, who will present her brilliant paper on the multilayered landscape of extractivism and gendered violence in the Niger Delta @pollenetwork.bsky.social @crg-ugent.bsky.social

The Pentagon & its budget doesn't support real security, but it is driving the climate crisis- as our new short briefing with Grassroots Global Justice explains. It's going to be a long, tough fight to cut Pentagon spending and invest in care & community, but it won't happen if we don't start now.

Join us tomorrow in Wageningen for a guest lecture by Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social - on War and Geos: The aftermaths and beforemaths of late modern war - from 12.30 till 14.00

Join us next week in Utrecht, 25 years Conflict Studies conference - where I got my masters now 14 years ago. With @kvlassen.bsky.social @judithverweijen.bsky.social and @casesofyou.bsky.social and many others

New opinion with Erik Kennes @egmontinstitute.bsky.social in the @euobserver.com on the need for EU pressure on Rwanda: euobserver.com/africa/arce9...

📢CALL4ABSTRACTS #EISAPEC25 S30: Green(ing) War: Military Build-up, Warfare and Socio-Environmental Wounds Join us to discuss all things war's ecosocial wounds at @europeanisa.bsky.social in Bologna, w. chairs @esthermarijnen.bsky.social & Ben Neimark. Submit by Mar 20: eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...

Voor iedereen die de situatie in Oost Congo nu beter wilt begrijpen, en verder wilt kijken dan de nauwe focus op Conflict Mineralen. Het begrijpen van de geschiedenis is key, om de huidige crisis te begrijpen. Heel knap hoe @judithverweijen.bsky.social dit hier doet in 15 min.

Goed gesprek gisteren bij @ovt-vpro.bsky.social dat mij toestand de hedendaagse Congo crisis ook in historisch perspectief te plaatsen: www.vpro.nl/programmas/o...

Please join us this August in Bologna at the EISA @europeanisa.bsky.social conference. Where we organise in total 5 panels on "Green(ing) War: Military-build up, Warfare and Socio-Ecological Wounds". Please see for more info section 30 at the EISA website; eisa-net.org/section-list/

While #M23 gaining territory last week, #DRC president with EC support, announced at Davos the creation of the world-largest "community" reserve based on the Virunga model, aiming to promote peace. It receives a lot of international support international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/news-and-eve...

Goma has fallen, M23 took over. And will even further gain territory as the west continues to back Rwanda, no matter what it seems. Must read by Jason Stearns - www.ft.com/content/8bae...

This morning, #Goma emerges in limbo with an unclear, highly dynamic situation. A wealth of footage circulates (mostly unverified), showing either M23 and Rwandan forces on one side, and FARDC and wazalendo on the other. Skirmishes are underway in various parts of town.