Buongiorno #EISAPEC2025! Hope everyone arriving by train managed to emerge from the depths of Bologna AV to see the surface :)

To be continued w. David Curran at the roundtable on researching training for international deployments (FR 10:45am) #BISA2025

Attending #BISA2025 and working on security, peacekeeping or military training? Come by our panel w. @moapeldan.bsky.social chaired by @mghacademic.bsky.social to discuss the politics of UN peace ops around reporting civilian harm, undoing war, training and speaking protection language (TH 1:15pm)

Kicking off #MyfirstBISA in Belfast with attending Prof Cynthia Enloe’s lecture and meeting fellow researchers from the Postgraduate network 🍻 Looking forward to three more days of exploring our shared curiosities

Kudos to @jemtseva.bsky.social, @maxlesch.bsky.social and others at @eui-eu.bsky.social for organizing this fantastic interdisciplinary workshop on the present and future of int’l institutions & bringing together critical legal and IR scholars.

📝 in my latest article in CSP I investigate how norms like POC and R2P normalized particular images of protectors in UN peace operations. I develop the concept of productive contestation to highlight the political and normalising work of norms: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📝 in our collective intervention for CSoS on the politics of protection, @louiseridden.bsky.social and I contributed a short piece troubling what the ‘self’ stands for in self-protection: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📝 in my (first ever) paper in GR2P I explored how individual agency can matter in rigid and bureaucratic organizations like the UN: brill.com/view/journal...

What a treat it was to spend two days in Copenhagen debating the future of human protection in the changing global order. A discussion led by @chiara-defranco.bsky.social and @ligelot.bsky.social with plenty of strong and diverse contributions.