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Boyd van Dijk
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Oxford Martin Fellow @oxmartinschool @oxfordhistory @nuffieldcollege | 'Preparing for War' (@OUPLaw)
Mar 20, 2023 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
Last Friday the ICC issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova. It charged them with war crimes under the Rome Statute for having unlawfully deported Ukr children.

A 🧵thread on the origins of these crimes - and why that history matters for today. Here are the actual arrest warrants from the ICC. Its pre-trial chamber referred directly to the war crimes' articles of the Rome Statute on children's rights.

These same principles date back to the (criminal) provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

icc-cpi.int/news/situation…
Aug 5, 2022 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
A short 🧵 on the Amnesty report claiming Ukrainian violations of IHL. The @amnesty report notes that Ukrainian forces are putting civilians in harm's way by operating in populated residential areas, including hospitals. But it is getting, understandably a lot of flag and pushback from critics - and even from mainstream IHL lawyers.
Mar 10, 2022 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
We're seeing various reports of (major) violations of the Geneva Conventions by Russian forces in Ukraine. But what role did Russia play in the formulation of these cardinal treaties? A short thread 🧵 Usually, the 1949 Conventions are seen as a product Western European liberal thinking, thereby limiting the crucial Soviet role to a minor episode in a larger story of Western triumphalism.
Feb 3, 2022 • 48 tweets • 14 min read
1) Today is the official UK publication day of my new @OUPLaw book #preparingforwar on the making of the Geneva Conventions, the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated.

THREAD.

global.oup.com/academic/produ… 2) On the morning of 21 April 1949, at the diplomatic conference of Geneva’s opening ceremony, the Swiss president of the meeting Max Petitpierre welcomed state representatives from across the world to the city before a crowd of excited spectators.
Sep 26, 2019 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Burra asks a really great question, but I think some of his answers require more critical and deeper thought. THREAD #GC70 @ejiltalk ejiltalk.org/was-there-the-… I agree with Burra's critique that we shouldn't focus our attention on the absence of Third World states alone. Indeed, it's critical that we take the role, ideas, and contributions of non-European delegates more seriously if we want to better understand the law's making.
Aug 12, 2019 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
Today is the 70th birthday of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. They are the most important rules ever formulated for armed conflict and universally ratified. THREAD. #GC70 Many of today’s celebrations will perpetuate old myths about the Conventions, however. In this thread, I want to debunk a few of them by discussing the drafters' intentions, their unique achievements, as well as their shortcomings - that we're still grappling with today.