Christiane Wilke
@christianew.bsky.social
Research on international law, armed conflict, and civilian harm. Professor at Carleton U, Legal Studies. Cyclist, hiker, looking forward to sabbatical.
Healthcare under attack in Afghanistan. Excellent analysis by Shabnam Salehi on why we need to pay attention to the recent Pakistani attack on an addiction treatment centre in Afghanistan. theconversation.com/strike-on-af...
Strike on Afghan hospital shows the laws of war may document atrocities — but don’t prevent them
The Pakistani strike on a drug addiction hospital raises serious concerns about the enforcement of international humanitarian law.
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Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside
Heading to Berlin airport after a five stop, four city family visit to Berlin, Greifswald, Bad Oeynhausen and Münster. Ready to sleep for a week.
We are seeing what Ernst Fraenkel called “the dual state.” For most, life is routine and the rule of law exists. But if you interact with ICE, you face the full force of the prerogative state, which is marked by “unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.”
Travis Mitchell@travismitchell.bsky.social · 7mo agoGift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Find the light at the end of the tunnel and move towards it. Hoping for the best for all of us for 2026! We had a great ski today on the Ottawa West Winter Trail.
Layers of information in an archival document: - What is said - What is not said - What is alluded to - What is omitted intentionally (and unintentionally) - What is misleading - What is ambiguous - What is highlighted - What is downplayed - What is weaponized - What is unintelligible today ...
How do we look at violence? How does our vantage point shape what and whom we see? My new post on @opiniojuris.bsky.social analyzes the promise and limits of the aerial perspective for seeing war crimes and genocide. opiniojuris.org/2025/12/10/s...
Symposium on Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law: Looking Down and Looking Away – The Aerial Perspective in Investigations of Armed Conflict and Genocide
[Christiane Wilke is a Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa and collaborates with Airwars on a project examining legal and factual claims in US milita…
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The introductory post below provides an overview of the theme of the collection opiniojuris.org/2025/12/08/i...
Introduction to the Symposium on Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law: A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide
[Stefania Di Stefano is a postdoctoral researcher in online content moderation at Cnam, Paris. Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi is an assistant professor of public international law at Sciences Po Law Schoo…
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Major thanks to the editorial team at OJ for supporting and hosting the series, and to my co-convenors Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @barriesander.bsky.social, and @dimitrivdm.bsky.social for bringing this project to fruition!
This series examines how forensic investigations are reshaping evidentiary practices and redefining accountability in international law. Our hope is that the contributions will offer readers generative insights for future engagement against genocidal and colonial violence.
The symposium draws from our Interest Group's workshop at the @esil-sedi.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, which featured keynote presentations by Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, & Eyal Weizman, Founder of Forensic Architecture, chaired by Nahed Samour.
📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢 *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*
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JuliMar@julimar4711.bsky.social · 10mo ago@katjaberlin.bsky.social hat es auf den Punkt gebracht.
Second, and particularly important, part of the SWAIL interview is out ⬇️
Völkerrechtsblog@voelkerrechtsblog.org · 10mo agoWhat is SWAIL's relationship to #TWAIL? Part II discusses intersections and divergences between the two approaches. @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński reflect on the discomforts SWAIL may provoke and on what SWAIL can offer scholars and practitioners. voelkerrechtsblog.org/researching-...
Why recognize the State of Palestine? Isn't it pointless? Mere symbolism? Isn't the two-state solution an illusion? Or even a trap? Whatever your view, take a minute to read this speech by Palestine's Deputy Ambassador to the UN from June 30. digitallibrary.un.org/record/40861...
Bye bye Berlin. It’s been a great few days. Grateful for chance encounters and discussions at the conference, good food, and strolls through the city.
Leaving Berlin inspired and exhausted after the @esil-sedi.bsky.social conference. Highlights included superb workshops, hearing Francesca Albanese speak, presenting to a great audience, sharing meals and stories, and conference swim breaks.
and I underscored the importance of solidarity & collective action in order to protect our academic spaces and communities. I also had the chance to further discuss the arguments of my article Silencing Palestinian voices: On freedom of expression and Gaza (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...) 4/
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This was an amazing panel full of insights and integrity. Thanks so much to both of you.
Stefania Di Stefano@stefaniasds.bsky.social · 11mo agoI am also delighted to have had the opportunity to discuss, together with @jannisgrimm.bsky.social the pressing issue of academic freedom and the discourse on international law, where I also shared insights on the silencing attempts we have endured in the lead up to our workshop 3/
I am also delighted to have had the opportunity to discuss, together with @jannisgrimm.bsky.social the pressing issue of academic freedom and the discourse on international law, where I also shared insights on the silencing attempts we have endured in the lead up to our workshop 3/
I am grateful to them for their contribution and engagement, as well as our panelists for their thought-provoking presentations, and our audience for the captivating debates. I am also grateful to the local organisers, and the ESIL Board, for the support in making this event happen. 2/
And it’s a wrap on #ESIL2025 ! This year, with my colleagues of the ESIL IG on Int’l Law and Technology, we have had the privilege of welcoming Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the oPt, and Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture, as keynote speakers for our annual workshop. 1/
Israeli military commanders openly speak of not being constrained by legal advice That the role of legal advisers is to defend Israel's actions in Gaza to the outside world using international law They are "rubber stamps", as @michaelsfard.bsky.social put it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
theguardian.com
The University of California, Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 faculty members and students as part of an investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents”, a move a targeted scholar likened to a “practice from the McCarthy era”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
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As someone who is used to speaking on the “miscellaneous international issues” panel at conferences, it was an honour to share my research with a large and attentive audience of specialists at the @esil-sedi.bsky.social Annual Conference in Berlin. I’m still thinking about the questions and comments
A must-read piece by @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa... “As academic and other institutions in the Global North closed ranks in support of a nuclear state unleashing unspeakable violence against an intentionally starved population, /1
Defining Away Palestine
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