Boyd van Dijk
@boydvandijk.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
delighted to be part of this exceptional project - congrats to Meredith, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, and all the other editors.
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
delighted to be part of this exceptional project - congrats to Meredith, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, and all the other editors.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social
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research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social
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research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...
when the GDR supported, during the drafting of Protocols in 1977, African efforts to exclude mercenaries from being recognized as combatants or POWs, it simultaneously sought to ensure that same restrictions would not expose socialist states’ military advisers globally to same exclusionary forces.
October 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
when the GDR supported, during the drafting of Protocols in 1977, African efforts to exclude mercenaries from being recognized as combatants or POWs, it simultaneously sought to ensure that same restrictions would not expose socialist states’ military advisers globally to same exclusionary forces.
when the UK Department of Energy clashed during Protocols making with the MoD over Arab attempts to impose binding restrictions on attacks against oil installations - officially justified by environmental concerns (1975)
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
when the UK Department of Energy clashed during Protocols making with the MoD over Arab attempts to impose binding restrictions on attacks against oil installations - officially justified by environmental concerns (1975)
Massive congrats to the ICRC on the publication of the 2025 Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention - a huge achievement. I look forward to reading it - and am grateful for the various references to my work.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Massive congrats to the ICRC on the publication of the 2025 Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention - a huge achievement. I look forward to reading it - and am grateful for the various references to my work.
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...
a new monograph award in international law and justice has been established in honour of Georges Abi-Saab
fondationabisaab.net
fondationabisaab.net
October 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
a new monograph award in international law and justice has been established in honour of Georges Abi-Saab
fondationabisaab.net
fondationabisaab.net
Really looking forward to the Paris launch of this extraordinary Cambridge history of rights project - honoured to be part of it, and congrats to all the editors
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October 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Really looking forward to the Paris launch of this extraordinary Cambridge history of rights project - honoured to be part of it, and congrats to all the editors
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events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...
October 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
feeling privileged & very much looking forward to offering comments on what promises to be a terrific San Remo lecture - by Helen Durham
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September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
feeling privileged & very much looking forward to offering comments on what promises to be a terrific San Remo lecture - by Helen Durham
iihl.org/fourth-sanre...
iihl.org/fourth-sanre...
September 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
September 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
September 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
fascinating new piece in Humanity on the 'dark side of IHL' and Gaza - by Victor Kattan and Rémi Fuhrmann
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
September 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
fascinating new piece in Humanity on the 'dark side of IHL' and Gaza - by Victor Kattan and Rémi Fuhrmann
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
now out - looks very promising
August 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
now out - looks very promising
proofs - coming out soon in the Law & History Review
August 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
proofs - coming out soon in the Law & History Review
forthcoming in a few months - honoured to contribute to this exceptional Cambridge history of rights project.
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July 21, 2025 at 6:37 AM
forthcoming in a few months - honoured to contribute to this exceptional Cambridge history of rights project.
www.cambridge.org/be/universit...
www.cambridge.org/be/universit...
July 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
July 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
interesting - wasn't aware that, during their trials in the mid-1970s, the Baader-Meinhof group defendants - while on hunger strike - claimed POW status under the Third Geneva Convention, asserting existence of armed conflict within FRG.
July 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
interesting - wasn't aware that, during their trials in the mid-1970s, the Baader-Meinhof group defendants - while on hunger strike - claimed POW status under the Third Geneva Convention, asserting existence of armed conflict within FRG.
I finally arrived in Santiago to complete the last part of my book’s research - which covers the role of international law and (inter-)national organizations, including the ICRC, in the struggle for and against state repression in 1970s Latin America.
June 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I finally arrived in Santiago to complete the last part of my book’s research - which covers the role of international law and (inter-)national organizations, including the ICRC, in the struggle for and against state repression in 1970s Latin America.
proofs - coming soon
June 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
proofs - coming soon
Thrilled to workshop my new book Humanity in War (under contract with OUP) in Oxford next week. It’s a global history of how actors from Global South & East reshaped law in war during decolonization & the Cold War, based on years of research across M-East, Africa, Asia, L-America & C-Europe.
June 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Thrilled to workshop my new book Humanity in War (under contract with OUP) in Oxford next week. It’s a global history of how actors from Global South & East reshaped law in war during decolonization & the Cold War, based on years of research across M-East, Africa, Asia, L-America & C-Europe.