& now with link live to the whole symposium: cambridge.org/core/journals/… with essays from Larissa van den Herik and Alex Huneeus, Alexa Koenig, Emma Irving, Nancy Amoury Combs, and Colette Rausch. Thanks to the @AJIL_Unbound team for the great editing! cc @pulitzercenter@IRP_media
It's only 5 pgs, but if you don't have time, here's the bottom line: "The new media landscape is comparatively poorly equipped to raise an early warning alarm in a way that will spur preventive action, but that it is well-positioned to sustain attention to ongoing atrocities....
...Unfortunately, such later stages of a crisis generally provide the most limited policy options for civilian protection." Unroll @threadreaderapp
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Diversion from my norm to share something more personal: 20 years ago I worked on the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology (HART) Act to make sure those conceived in Aotearoa in the future were not left without any record of their biological parent/s & whakapapa as I was. A 🧵
As of today, I’m a tenured Professor of Law (same day as @LeahLitman!). I can readily imagine myself in a different life – the one that I was on track for with a 10th grade education, unsafe living conditions, insecure minimum wage work. So, a few reflections.
First, I grew up in a wealthy nation, I’m white, cis-gender, a quick study. I had control over none of these things. Yet they've meant I haven’t faced barriers that others face when trying to move from basic survival to a life I love.
Next, for a story like mine to come out this way required both societal support - emergency housing, the free program that first taught me how write an essay (@UNSW – thank you!) & so much more...
1/ Information Flow from Outside of Khartoum
"Civilians outside of Khartoum, including in Darfur, The Blue Nile, and South Kordofan, are hugely vulnerable both in terms of immediate humanitarian needs, and direct violence...." @mhas1@CameronAbadi@AlbertoMiguelF5@amandataub 2/8
"...Burhan is intimately familiar with the tactic, well-honed during al-Bashir’s reign, of scapegoating citizens in these so-called peripheral regions to deflect attention from political strife in Khartoum." @nxthompson@NesrineMalik@nickschifrin@JonTemin 3/8
Platform-Enabled Crimes: “Each day, across the globe, the corporations that run these platforms execute policies and practices that serve their profit model, typically by sustaining user engagement.”(2/24)
“Sometimes, these seemingly banal business activities enable principal perpetrators to commit crimes; yet online intermediaries are almost never held to account for their complicity in the resulting harms.” (3/24) @julie17usc@nicsuzor@Barrie_Sander@Nanjala1@nattyray11
You've got 7 hours left to register for the @asil Virtual Annual Meeting, "The Promise of International Law." Students & recent graduates can attend for FREE. Register here: asil.org/annualmeeting Here comes a thread of reasons why you should join us for #ASILduringCOVID
Reason #1: Stimulating discussions of the most pressing issues of our time with over 150 of the world's leading authorities on international law and related fields.
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But now I have your attn :) here comes a list via one of my awesome @auwcl colleagues, collated by the Movement Law Lab Collective @purvishahesq working with Movement for Black Lives to confirm bail funds across the country that are both legitimate and led by Black activists