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Patryk I. Labuda
@pilabuda.bsky.social
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. Central European University, prof int'l law & int'l relations . www.patryklabuda.com . International law, peace and security, global history . Global South-East(ern Europe) relations . Formerly DRC, Sudans, Tunisia/Libya, Senegal .
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Feb 25
Special thanks also to the many co-conspirators who have shaped the SWAIL framework through countless discussions over the past 3 years (you know who you are!), and my co-organizer, Marek Wasiński, who pushed this workshop across the finish line when energy levels were running low
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 11h
The many endings of the Kabuga trial www.justiceinfo.net/en/150638-th...
The many endings of the Kabuga trial
When is a trial no longer a trial? When is a defendant no longer a defendant? When is a court no longer a court?
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 5d
Trump Signals Instrumental Approach to U.N. – But it Could Be Worse at www.justsecurity.org/121750/trump...
Trump Signals Instrumental Approach to U.N. – But it Could Be Worse
Trump's General Assembly speech could have been worse, but countries that want to make the U.N. system work can't bank on U.S. leadership.
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 6d
Jane Goodall: A Life in Pictures www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...
Jane Goodall: A Life in Pictures
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 8d
The United Nations in Hindsight: The Increasing Use of Article 51 of the UN Charter and the Security Council at www.justsecurity.org/121542/incre...
The United Nations in Hindsight: The Increasing Use of Article 51 of the UN Charter and the Security Council
Reports required under Article 51 are crucial for the UNSC's ability to assess self-defense claims and maintain peace.
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 8d
RDC : l’ancien président Joseph Kabila condamné à la peine de mort www.jeuneafrique.com/1720994/poli...
RDC : l’ancien président Joseph Kabila condamné à la peine de mort
Il était notamment poursuivi pour trahison et crimes contre la paix et la sécurité de l’humanité devant la Haute Cour militaire de Kinshasa, pour ses liens supposés avec le groupe rebelle AFC/M23.
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 12d
The "double exclusion" of CEE - here in scholarly research, but applicable elsewhere as well (too eastern for the West, too western for the Third World) is never not a fascinating topic.
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 12d
How does the “Second World” invite us to rethink international law?

Read the interview with @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński on how SWAIL emerges from Eastern & Central Europe’s liminal position.

By @polinakulish.bsky.social & @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social

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(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part I
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 12d
Interesting interview on Second World Approaches to International Law (including a nice shout out to our Socialism and International Law volume)!
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 12d
How does the “Second World” invite us to rethink international law?

Read the interview with @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński on how SWAIL emerges from Eastern & Central Europe’s liminal position.

By @polinakulish.bsky.social & @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social

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(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part I
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 12d
What is SWAIL's relationship to #TWAIL?
Part II discusses intersections and divergences between the two approaches.

@pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński reflect on the discomforts SWAIL may provoke and on what SWAIL can offer scholars and practitioners.

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(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part II
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 9d
UN expert calls on Mali to remain in International Criminal Court www.jurist.org/news/?p=294152
UN expert calls on Mali to remain in International Criminal Court
A UN expert called Friday for Mali to remain in the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the country announced plans to withdraw last week. On September 22, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced....
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 12d
How does the “Second World” invite us to rethink international law?

Read the interview with @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński on how SWAIL emerges from Eastern & Central Europe’s liminal position.

By @polinakulish.bsky.social & @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social

voelkerrechtsblog.org/researching-...
(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part I
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 13d
How speaking in a second language directly affects your moral judgement
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How speaking in a second language directly affects your moral judgement
The ‘moral foreign language effect’ makes you more rational, and less emotional.
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 14d
A Call for Meaningful Action to Support Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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A Call for Meaningful Action to Support Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The following remarks were delivered by Ida Sawyer, director of Human Rights Watch’s Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division, during a Side Event at the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 202...
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 14d
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announce withdrawal from International Criminal Court www.jurist.org/news/?p=293643
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announce withdrawal from International Criminal Court
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger announced Monday that they will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the tribunal of serving 'imperial' rather than African interests. The three...
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 18d
In Breakthrough, U.S. and Three Arab Powers Agree on Sudan Peace Roadmap www.crisisgroup.org/africa/sudan...
In Breakthrough, U.S. and Three Arab Powers Agree on Sudan Peace Roadmap | International Crisis Group
Crisis Group expert Alan Boswell writes on a breakthrough agreement among key outside actors that could help bring peace to Sudan
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 20d
At the Coming U.N. Leaders Meetings: Existential Questions on the U.S. Role, Israel-Palestine, and the U.N. Itself at www.justsecurity.org/120676/un-le...
At the Coming U.N. Leaders Meetings: Existential Questions on the U.S. Role, Israel-Palestine, and the U.N. Itself
This year's General Assembly meeting may do more to spotlight the U.N.’s current weaknesses than help find solutions to them.
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 20d
An Inversion of Pariah Status: How Washington is undermining the UN General Assembly as a sanctuary for peace to thwart the ICC justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/16/a...
An Inversion of Pariah Status:  How Washington is undermining the UN General Assembly as a sanctuary for peace to thwart the ICC
Victor Peskin joins JiC for this guest post on the upcoming United Nations General Assembly. Victor is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics & Global Studies at Arizona State Univers…
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 21d
Intersecting Crises: War, Diplomacy, and the Future of the Middle East events.ceu.edu/2025-09-29/i...
Intersecting Crises: War, Diplomacy, and the Future of the Middle East
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Sep 7
UN report finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in eastern DRC conflict www.jurist.org/news/?p=292080
UN report finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in eastern DRC conflict
A UN rights report released Friday declared that all parties to the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law,....
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Aug 27
Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Aug 21
New US sanctions on International Criminal Court news.un.org/en/story/202...
International Criminal Court: New US sanctions ‘a flagrant attack’ on judicial independence
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has strongly rejected new sanctions announced by the United States on Wednesday against four more of its personnel in a renewed push surrounding investigations i...
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Aug 16
‘Nie wszystko jest dozwolone’: Moja rozmowa w Gazecie Prawnej o zbrodni ludobójstwa w Gazie www.gazetaprawna.pl/magazyn-na-w...

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Nie wszystko jest dozwolone
To, że dwa dawne mocarstwa kolonialne, które okupowały tereny na Bliskim Wschodzie, po wielu latach formalnie uznają istnienie państwa palestyńskiego, będzie miało długofalowe konsekwencje. Nawet najb...
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Aug 4
ICC Prosecutor Office urged to formally investigate atrocities by Nigeria military www.jurist.org/news/?p=288924
ICC Prosecutor Office urged to formally investigate atrocities by Nigeria military
Amnesty International criticized the International Criminal Court's Office of the Prosecutor on Monday for dashing the hopes of survivors of atrocities by the military in Nigeria, after failing to for...
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Aug 4
Thanks to a group of Pacific students who, to paraphrase Mark Twain, did not know it was impossible, the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on climate change is now a reality, and conduct responsible for climate change can no longer hide in plain legal sight www.ejiltalk.org/the-great-re...
The Great Reset: The ICJ Reframes the Conduct Responsible for Climate Change Through the Prism of Internationally Wrongful Acts
For the last six years, together with a handful of colleagues and friends from around the world, we have worked with the Government of Vanuatu to develop and implement a legal strategy to turn the asp...
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Aug 3
On July 24, Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona were found guilty by the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in 2013-2014 in Central African Republic. It was an emblematic trial of old days www.justiceinfo.net/en/148388-ic...
ICC: A throwback judgment
On July 24, Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona were found guilty by the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in 2013-2014 in Central African Republic. It was an emblematic trial...
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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Jul 18
Libyan ICC war crimes suspect arrested in Germany www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Libyan ICC war crimes suspect arrested in Germany
German authorities have arrested a Libyan war crimes suspect accused of being a senior official for a notorious prison where inmates were routinely tortured and sometimes sexually abused, the International Criminal Court said on Friday.
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