Adam Kochanski
@adamkochanski.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @uofgpolisci.bsky.social | transitional justice, post-conflict peacebuilding, localization and international norms | adamkochanski.com
Perhaps the coolest thing about Zohran is that his dad is Columbia University anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani. His book “When Victims Become Killers” continues to be one of the most powerful treatments of the Rwandan Genocide I have ever read.
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Perhaps the coolest thing about Zohran is that his dad is Columbia University anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani. His book “When Victims Become Killers” continues to be one of the most powerful treatments of the Rwandan Genocide I have ever read.
Was very disappointed to see the massive cuts to the #IDRC. Without its support, I would not have been able to do my PhD field research. The IDRC has a proven track record of supporting cutting edge research and building lasting research and policy partnerships with stakeholders in the Global South.
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Was very disappointed to see the massive cuts to the #IDRC. Without its support, I would not have been able to do my PhD field research. The IDRC has a proven track record of supporting cutting edge research and building lasting research and policy partnerships with stakeholders in the Global South.
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Wildly illegal trade policy violating both US and international law, on top of wildly illegal murder of civilians in international & foreign waters, violating both US and international law.
Trump says he's imposing new tariffs on Colombia but won't say what the rate will be
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Wildly illegal trade policy violating both US and international law, on top of wildly illegal murder of civilians in international & foreign waters, violating both US and international law.
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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, and to support emerging scholars, I'd like to buy and mail copies to ten graduate students.
If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Civilizing Contention by Rana B. Khoury | Paperback | Cornell University Press
In Civilizing Contention, Rana B. Khoury asserts that to understand civilian and refugee activism in war, we must regard the international actors and organizations that enter the scene to help. When.....
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October 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, and to support emerging scholars, I'd like to buy and mail copies to ten graduate students.
If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Speaker Series: Next Wednesday, October 22, join our panel of political experts for an engaging discussion about the first six months of the new Mark Carney-led federal government.
More details: csahs.uoguelph.ca/events/2025/...
More details: csahs.uoguelph.ca/events/2025/...
October 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Speaker Series: Next Wednesday, October 22, join our panel of political experts for an engaging discussion about the first six months of the new Mark Carney-led federal government.
More details: csahs.uoguelph.ca/events/2025/...
More details: csahs.uoguelph.ca/events/2025/...
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👇 NEW ARTICLE with @Lanabi_la_Lova: We analyse cross border dynamics of war crimes denial. Attitudes to in-group's past wars & accountability explain selective solidarity with victims of distant conflicts. @lse-ei.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @eepolitics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/b4sum24y
Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine
Violence in distant conflicts can foster solidarity across borders, mediated by partisanship, identities, and ideology. But, attitudes towards a society’s own war legacies may also shape reactions ...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
👇 NEW ARTICLE with @Lanabi_la_Lova: We analyse cross border dynamics of war crimes denial. Attitudes to in-group's past wars & accountability explain selective solidarity with victims of distant conflicts. @lse-ei.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @eepolitics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/b4sum24y
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📢 For anyone working on the #ICC’s investigation in the Philippines and the prosecution of former President Rodrigo Duterte over crimes against humanity committed during his so-called drug war, this special issue is looking for folks to write on just that! 👇
📢 Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of JCEAS on "Norm Contestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. Link to full CfP below 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v61o... #IRtheory #IRnorms
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
📢 For anyone working on the #ICC’s investigation in the Philippines and the prosecution of former President Rodrigo Duterte over crimes against humanity committed during his so-called drug war, this special issue is looking for folks to write on just that! 👇
📢 Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of JCEAS on "Norm Contestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. Link to full CfP below 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v61o... #IRtheory #IRnorms
October 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
📢 Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of JCEAS on "Norm Contestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. Link to full CfP below 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v61o... #IRtheory #IRnorms
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"Rather than leaving immunity up to the interpretation of individual governments, a future convention should implement a tool to fight impunity in all forms."
The Case for an Immunity Exception in the Crimes Against Humanity Convention: justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/24/l... #UNGA80
The Case for an Immunity Exception in the Crimes Against Humanity Convention: justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/24/l... #UNGA80
Lifting Immunity, Resolving Impunity? The Case for an Immunity Exception in a Future Crimes Against Humanity Convention
Mayya Chaykina join JiC for this post on the issue of immunities in the proposed Crimes Against Humanity Convention. Mayya is a master’s student in law at Sciences Po Paris. Her work focuses o…
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September 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Rather than leaving immunity up to the interpretation of individual governments, a future convention should implement a tool to fight impunity in all forms."
The Case for an Immunity Exception in the Crimes Against Humanity Convention: justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/24/l... #UNGA80
The Case for an Immunity Exception in the Crimes Against Humanity Convention: justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/24/l... #UNGA80
A little more surprised than I should be by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announcement to withdraw from #ICC, labelling it an "instrument of neo-colonialist repression" and saying they will pursue "indigenous mechanisms for the consolidation of peace and justice." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Three West African countries to quit International Criminal Court
The three military juntas, who came to power through coups, say the judicial body is 'incapable' of handling 'proven war crimes'.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A little more surprised than I should be by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announcement to withdraw from #ICC, labelling it an "instrument of neo-colonialist repression" and saying they will pursue "indigenous mechanisms for the consolidation of peace and justice." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of Journal of Contemporary East Asian Studies on "#NormContestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. CfP below 👇https://www.adamkochanski.com/jceas-cfp
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of Journal of Contemporary East Asian Studies on "#NormContestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. CfP below 👇https://www.adamkochanski.com/jceas-cfp
UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel finds that Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip. Excellent summary of the key findings of the report below:
The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.
September 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel finds that Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip. Excellent summary of the key findings of the report below:
“And if people want to have fun on the high seas or the low seas.” Lordy, he thinks “high seas” is the water level and doesn’t know it refers to international waters. 🤦♂️
Trump: "When I see boats coming in like loaded up the other day with all sorts of drugs -- probably fentanyl mostly -- we're gonna take them out. And if people wants to have fun on the high seas of the low seas they're gonna be in trouble."
September 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
“And if people want to have fun on the high seas or the low seas.” Lordy, he thinks “high seas” is the water level and doesn’t know it refers to international waters. 🤦♂️
“No lawful measure can be eschewed in the effort to induce Israel to allow Gaza to be flooded with humanitarian assistance, to restore essential services, and to provide the conditions for the sustained, long-term recovery needs of Palestinians in Gaza.”
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
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August 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“No lawful measure can be eschewed in the effort to induce Israel to allow Gaza to be flooded with humanitarian assistance, to restore essential services, and to provide the conditions for the sustained, long-term recovery needs of Palestinians in Gaza.”
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
The man-made starvation in #Gaza is horrific, inhumane and a blatant violation of the ICJ’s provisional measures ruling and the fundamental principles of #IHL. All restrictions on humanitarian aid must be lifted without delay. Access to food and water are protected under IHL, without exception.
August 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Back in Toronto after spending last five weeks in Frankfurt at @goetheuni.bsky.social as a @trace-center.de Visiting Fellow. Huge thanks to Lisbeth Zimmermann and others in the Chair on International Institutions and Peace Processes for hosting me and stimulating discussions about IR norms research.
July 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Back in Toronto after spending last five weeks in Frankfurt at @goetheuni.bsky.social as a @trace-center.de Visiting Fellow. Huge thanks to Lisbeth Zimmermann and others in the Chair on International Institutions and Peace Processes for hosting me and stimulating discussions about IR norms research.
Very pleased to hear announcement of an "immediate and unconditional" ceasefire in Thailand-Cambodia fighting and a pledge to return to normalcy. Also significant to see ASEAN chair Malaysia mediating and brokering the ceasefire, voicing "shared commitment to peace, dialogue and regional stability."
Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire in their escalating border dispute after talks in neighboring Malaysia, that country’s prime minister announced. wapo.st/4f7ITY9
July 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Very pleased to hear announcement of an "immediate and unconditional" ceasefire in Thailand-Cambodia fighting and a pledge to return to normalcy. Also significant to see ASEAN chair Malaysia mediating and brokering the ceasefire, voicing "shared commitment to peace, dialogue and regional stability."
Trump caught lying again. He’s threatened Thailand and Cambodia with 36% tariffs and has diminished the U.S.’s credibility here. When a ceasefire does inevitably happen, I expect it will be because of an #ASEAN third party involvement - most likely Malaysia.
Fighting flared between Thai and Cambodian troops along the two countries’ disputed border early Sunday despite President Trump saying that the leaders of both countries had agreed to a cease-fire the previous day.
Thailand and Cambodia Trade Fire Despite Cease-Fire Promises
President Trump said on Saturday that both countries had agreed to a halt in the fighting. But on Sunday morning, skirmishes erupted once more.
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July 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Trump caught lying again. He’s threatened Thailand and Cambodia with 36% tariffs and has diminished the U.S.’s credibility here. When a ceasefire does inevitably happen, I expect it will be because of an #ASEAN third party involvement - most likely Malaysia.
Tensions have boiled over in a months-long standoff between #Thailand and #Cambodia in a disputed area along their border. The standoff has escalated with military clashes, resulting in 9 civilian deaths in Thailand's Surin province - the deadliest clash between the two #ASEAN countries since 2011.
July 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The ICJ has issued a landmark advisory opinion today stating that a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" is a human right and states have a legal obligation under international law to tackle climate change: www.cbc.ca/news/science...
UN's top court says failing to protect planet from climate change could violate international law | CBC News
In a landmark advisory opinion on Wednesday, the United Nations' top court said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate ch...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The ICJ has issued a landmark advisory opinion today stating that a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" is a human right and states have a legal obligation under international law to tackle climate change: www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Beyond thrilled to have my new article on ‘radical contestion’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social!
Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Please feel free to share further 😊
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Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Please feel free to share further 😊
@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Beyond thrilled to have my new article on ‘radical contestion’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social!
Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Please feel free to share further 😊
@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Please feel free to share further 😊
@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
I am delighted to share that my research on norm localization and circulation in Southeast Asia was awarded a five-year SSHRC Insight Grant.
#UofG researchers have been awarded over $16.3 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
Learn more: uoguel.ph/qacwa
Learn more: uoguel.ph/qacwa
U of G Receives $16.3M for Cybersecurity, Sustainability, Social Justice, Health
University of Guelph researchers have been awarded over $16.3M in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC...
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July 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I am delighted to share that my research on norm localization and circulation in Southeast Asia was awarded a five-year SSHRC Insight Grant.
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📢 Final TraCe Lecture for this semester
Don't miss the lecture of our current visiting fellow @adamkochanski.bsky.social (University of Guelph) titled “Practicing Norm Localization in the International Human Rights Regime” on July 9, 12h @goetheuni.bsky.social.
www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...
Don't miss the lecture of our current visiting fellow @adamkochanski.bsky.social (University of Guelph) titled “Practicing Norm Localization in the International Human Rights Regime” on July 9, 12h @goetheuni.bsky.social.
www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...
July 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📢 Final TraCe Lecture for this semester
Don't miss the lecture of our current visiting fellow @adamkochanski.bsky.social (University of Guelph) titled “Practicing Norm Localization in the International Human Rights Regime” on July 9, 12h @goetheuni.bsky.social.
www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...
Don't miss the lecture of our current visiting fellow @adamkochanski.bsky.social (University of Guelph) titled “Practicing Norm Localization in the International Human Rights Regime” on July 9, 12h @goetheuni.bsky.social.
www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...
I’m very grateful for the warm welcome I’ve received from Lisbeth Zimmermann and the wonderful IR community @goetheuni.bsky.social, as well as the wider @trace-center.de network. I’m looking forward to sharing my research and our next month of exchanges as TraCe Visiting Fellow.
We welcome Adam Kochanski @adamkochanski.bsky.social as TraCe Visiting Fellow!
He will research the circulation of local norms and ideas in world politics. Join his presentation of the TraCe lecture series on July 9 at @goetheuni.bsky.social.
www.trace-center.de/ueber-uns/te...
He will research the circulation of local norms and ideas in world politics. Join his presentation of the TraCe lecture series on July 9 at @goetheuni.bsky.social.
www.trace-center.de/ueber-uns/te...
July 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’m very grateful for the warm welcome I’ve received from Lisbeth Zimmermann and the wonderful IR community @goetheuni.bsky.social, as well as the wider @trace-center.de network. I’m looking forward to sharing my research and our next month of exchanges as TraCe Visiting Fellow.