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Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Remembering peaceful times in Tyre

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I'm saddened by the expansion of the war in the Middle East into Lebanon upon yesterday's attacks by Israel on Hezbollah. To be clea...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Contemporary sculpturist comments on Ukraine war

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Lakenen considers the war in Ukraine in this 2022 sculpture. A couple of weeks ago, I visited artist Tom Lakenen's Lakenenland , a sculp...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Rule of law seems absent, western powers impassive, as civil war inflicts horrific suffering in Sudan

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I know it's hipster hot right now to be up in arms over Gaza and lukewarm over Ukraine . I'd like for a moment to set aside both tho...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Kyiv law school strives for normalcy

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The dean of a Kyiv, Ukraine, law school spoke to American Bar Association (ABA) lawyers Thursday via Zoom about teaching law in a war zone. ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Western myopia marginalizes war in Sudan, Ecuador

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My prayers, especially over the recent holidays, have admittedly felt cliché, if not comical , being dominated by desire for "world pea...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Armenia, Azerbaijan maintain tentative ceasefire

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Yerevan, Armenia: Opera House at center. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 At the time of this writing, an uneasy but long sought peace is hol...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Russians travel in Asia despite, or because of, war

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An Aeroflot plane awaits departure in Almaty, Kazakhstan, earlier this month. EU and U.S. sanctions banned the airline in 2022. RJ Peltz-Ste...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Polisci papers track Ukraine war to Arctic, UN, internet

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The war in Ukraine occasioned several papers at last weekend's annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association (NEPSA)...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Fighting shatters peace, rips at progress in Sudan

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"Our tea lady" and me in Khartoum, November 2020. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 I'm saddened by the outbreak of conflict in ...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Weapon of Putin's war, anti-gay law jars NHL in US

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The NHL Chicago Blackhawks Sunday will host an annual Pride Night , but the team will not be wearing warm-up pride jerseys as intended, fo...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Program to examine Genocide Convention, Ukraine

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The Jagiellonian Law Society has announced a follow-up seminar, on March 14, 2023, on the subject of Polish-Jewish attorney Rafał Lemkin , ...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Ukraine Bar Association soldiers on

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Lawyers have never stopped work in Ukraine, and the bar has been a catalyst in the development of democracy there, I learned today at a pres...
Monday, November 14, 2022

In shadow of Ukraine war, webinar tells story of UN Genocide Convention, Polish-Jewish jurist Lemkin

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The Jagiellonian Law Society and its President Elizabeth Zechenter , a visiting scholar at Emory, have put together another superb program...
Friday, November 4, 2022

As Jacoby talk commemorates Kristallnacht, Ukraine recurs in historical record of flights from oppression

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An upcoming talk on Kristallnacht, a recent experience in the Paraguayan Chaco, and the ongoing war in Ukraine have me thinking lately about...
Monday, September 19, 2022

In 'Operation L,' Polish Special Forces rescued women judges, lawyers from Afghanistan amid chaotic U.S. exit

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In an operation little known until recently, Polish Special Forces evacuated female judges and lawyers from Afghanistan in the wake of the c...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Invasion of Ukraine marks six months; Russian propaganda flows despite court OK of EU media ban

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#IStandWithUkraine On July 27, the European Union (EU) General Court upheld a continental broadcast ban on Russia Today (RT). The EU Council...