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Ivan Gusic

@ivangusic.bsky.social

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Focusing on the war-peace nexus, postwar cities (Beirut, Belfast, Mitrovica, Mostar, Nicosia, etc.), the socioeconomics of peace, and geocoded urban violence at Uppsala University. I like mountains and tattoos.

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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · Oct 15

Ever thought about the role of memes in political violence? Neither did I until Martin Lundqvist came up with the amazing idea! Open access and filled with digital archiving, flags, and Liam Neeson.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 4h

I think that the International, regional and internal-Israeli dynamics will not allow the Israeli government to return to hostilities. But at the moment that's all we can count on - the "dynamics". There seem to be no clear mechanism to prevent that.

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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · 2d

RIP

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 5d

Criticism of biased media coverage of Gaza is often discarded as baseless..

so we set out to study the coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims by German press systematically!

The resulting study 'Hierarchies in Death' was just published #OA by Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 6d

The cost of caring for U.S. veterans from the post-9/11 wars is expected to top $2,000,000,000,000 by 2050.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Aug 22

"As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed."

"The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading."

"Any further delay—even by days—will result in a totally unacceptable escalation of Famine-related mortality."

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification @theipcinfo.bsky.social · Aug 22

Famine Review Committee Alert❗

The FRC has determined that #Famine is currently occurring in Gaza Governorate. Furthermore, the FRC projects Famine thresholds to be crossed in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis Governorates in the coming weeks.

Read more: www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · Aug 22

One day everyone will have been against this genocide.

Lisa Cumming @lisacumin.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza.

FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition."

www.who.int/news/item/22...

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza

More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths. FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and ...

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Aug 6

Clear from day one, that if left unchecked, this Israeli government will not stop at anything

My tweet, Oct 7 2023:
This is a call for expulsion/genocide. Silence in the face of this threat amounts to green light
Quoted tweet:
Barak Ravid
@BarakRavid
·
Oct 7, 2023
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”
8:39 PM · Oct 7, 2023
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · Aug 1

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Aug 2

Retired Israeli general Amiram Levin, today:
... an order to shoot at hungry children and parents who are looking for a piece of bread because they are being ruled by Hamas militiamen - this is a crime. This is genocide, and this is what we are doing there.”

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Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social · Aug 2

Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry.

fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: 31 Aug

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · Jul 26

Whenever public opinion and international pressure becomes unignorable, offer a token concession that will diffuse momentum and act as a fig leaf, while maintaining the mass death and expulsion. It’s a playbook.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 25

Israel said Friday that it will allow other countries to drop aid from the air into the Gaza Strip, where children have died of malnutrition and nearly one in three people is coping with food insecurity, according to the UN's World Food Program.

Israel to Allow Aid Airdrops Over Gaza During Starvation Crisis

Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were expected to begin airdrops in the coming days, but experts warned that the bulk of necessary aid could come only by land.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jul 26

"The social breakdown that we are witnessing, the degrading of human beings, is not a byproduct of the harm that Israel is inflicting. That’s the central element of the crime: destroying Palestinian society."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal

We saw famine in Biafra and Ethiopia. In the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘aid distribution system’ we see an attempt to destroy a whole society, says academic and writer Alex de Waal

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · Jul 25

Testimony about the aid delivery "system" set up by GHF in Gaza by Motasem A Dalloul (x.com/AbujomaaGaza)

No wonder it's been called hunger games

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · Jul 24

After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise

Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · Jul 23

More than 100 NGOs warn 'mass starvation' spreading across Gaza

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 20

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba

Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · Jul 20

Skeptics of the Gaza genocide say: “If Israel wanted mass killing, it wouldn’t do it by shooting at food lines here and there.” But that logic ignores history. Humanitarian aid has long been weaponized — even as a key tool of genocidal warfare. A thread. 🧵

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · Jun 17

Come do a PhD at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social. You could be supervised by some of my fantastic colleagues while working in a vibrant, pluralistic & highly engaged research environment.

These positions are fully salaried & come with a research budget of 30k SEK a year fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD students in War Studies

The Department of War Studies conducts research and education in the subject of War Studies. The department consists of about 160 employees and has about 1000 students and participants in commissioned

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jun 12

The truth is brutal and horrible, but we need to be honest. The memory culture of one genocide - the Holocaust - has made it difficult for many to recognize and stop another genocide - the eradication of the Gaza Strip.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Jun 12

If only there were some indications of intent to commit genocide coming from the Israelis other than the dozen different statements a day for the past 20 months by its highest ranking politicians and military personnel

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Anna Marie Obermeier @amobermeier.bsky.social · Jun 10

Do you work on gender and peacebuilding broadly defined (including everything from ceasefires to transitional justice)? I’m looking for pitches to contribute to a special issue, especially interested in quantitative research by scholars outside of Europe/US/Canada. Email/DM me!

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · May 30

Former head of International Law Department of the IDF writes that the current attempt of forced removal of population in the Gaza Strip could fall under "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" i.e genocide.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · May 25

'The entire population of the Gaza Strip is facing high levels of acute food insecurity, with one in five facing starvation'

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Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social · May 24

apnews.com/article/isra... Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · May 15

Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal.

And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.

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