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ICYMI: Discover how Isenyin, transformed interreligious conflicts into harmonious coexistence through innovative mediation and binding agreements. Watch the documentary to see how community-driven solutions are reshaping lives and fostering unity. https://lnkd.in/dG4tUMNM

🎙️NEW #IntoAfrica Episode: The State of Eight: Challenges Facing the East Africa Community Beverly Ochieng, CSIS Senior Associate, and Pascal Kambale, Human Rights Lawyer, join Mvemba Phezo Dizolele to untangle the issues and opportunities faced by the EAC. As the EAC faces a transition period with its new member states, how can it solidify its leadership and ensure that each partner is held to account? 🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/43NINiN

In an important new article by Lama Khouri, she explores the mechanisms of necropolitics at work in the psychodynamics of international legal frameworks. Rather than a Winnicottian holding environment for establishing safety, international law is the environmental structures that sustain genocide. Khouri writes: “In exploring Winnicott’s concepts within a broader socio-political framework, we see a stark parallel between his psychological theory of a “holding environment” and the global mechanisms of international law and human rights conventions. Ideally, these international structures should function as a global holding environment, providing the necessary safety and stability for communities to develop and thrive. However, the reality, as seen through the lens of necropolitics, reveals a more sinister dynamic. Achille Mbembe’s analysis of necropolitics allows us to understand that these failures are not merely oversights but are components of a systematic approach employed by states to exert control over life and death (Mbembe, 2003). This deliberate undermining of the global holding environment, particularly evident in the handling of the Gaza genocide, exemplifies how powerful nations manipulate these structures to sustain geopolitical dominance, effectively deciding the survivability of marginalized populations. By linking Winnicott’s theory with necropolitical practices, we uncover how the international community’s negligence mirrors the catastrophic failures in the maternal-infant relationship, perpetuating cycles of trauma and resistance among Palestinians.” https://lnkd.in/gmpxTGeY

TOC: Language, Context and Text: The Social Semiotics Forum : Vol. 6 / No. 1 (2024): 2024. vi, 225 pp. Table of Contents Editorial Editors’ note p. 1 Articles Moving towards peace, compassion and empathy through semiotic enquiry Awni Etaywe, Elizabeth A. Thomson & Ingrid Wijeyewardene | pp. 2–26 peace Constructing resistance in the quest for social justice: A study of a fracturing in Thai hegemony Ingrid Wijeyewardene | pp. 27–59 Acknowledging dispossession: A CDA/PDA perspective on discourse dealing with unceded land J. R. Martin & Priscilla Angela T. Cruz | pp. 60–87

Free Virtual Screening of 'Where the Olive Trees Weep', tomorrow. Copied from the link below: "Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, Running Time 103 minutes, 2004, English with English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by discussions with film audience. About the Film Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. Following Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi and others, the film explores the themes of loss, trauma, and quest for justice. Ancient landscapes bear deep scars, having witnessed the brutal reality of ancestral land confiscation, expulsions, imprisonment, home demolitions, water deprivation, and denial of basic human rights. Yet, through the veil of oppression, we catch a glimpse of the resilience — the deep roots that have carried the Palestinian people through decades of darkness and shattered lives. Bearing witness to their harrowing experiences, one cannot help but ask: What makes the oppressor so ruthlessly blind to its own cruelty?" Click here to register: https://lnkd.in/dBjDmsEr

#Georgia: Upholding democracy and civil liberties is not negotiable! Strong words by Janez Lenarcic on behalf of HR/VP Josep Borell European External Action Service: "Transparency should not be used as an instrument to limit civil society’s capacity to operate freely." ➡ bit.ly/GeorgiaDraftLaw The call to Georgian leaders is clear: 🔵 Uphold democracy 🔵 Protect civil liberties 🔵 Unconditionally withdraw the draft law on foreign influence transparency Now more than ever, it's crucial for Georgian leaders to unite the country and advance on the European path. Jointly, the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum and the Georgian National Platform will continue to say #NoToRussianLaw ! #EU #Georgia 

On a recent Financial Times Rachman Review podcast, Gideon Rachman discussed the history of international humanitarian law since WWI with Boyd van Dijk, a historian at Oxford University and author of Preparing for War - The Making of the Geneva Conventions. It's a wonderful discussion of ongoing efforts to prevent war crimes and hold leaders engaged in conflict to account. #warcrimes #nuclearwar #humanrights #conflict #internationallaw https://lnkd.in/g39NMEkP

Speaking about Nigerian constitutional development and the quest for a constitution that represent the aspirations of all Nigerians. I recently did a story regarding this clamour containing diverse perspectives. Please find this piece worth perusing. #storytelling #peacejusticeandequityforall #journalism

The International system established by Europe based on some criteria. The core is 'civilization'. According to the latter, Non-European societies were often seen as inferior, justifying colonialism. By dehumanizing other countries, and claiming superiority over others, the western white man committed genocide against indigenous people in America and Africa, and now in Gaza. Dehumanize refers to the act of treating someone with a lack of dignity. International law is one of the features of this system established by Europe. in fact, it is European international law, and humanity often mentioned in international convention means European humanity. The west won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.