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Ivan Gusic

@ivangusic.bsky.social
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I research the war-peace nexus, postwar cities (Beirut, Belfast, Mitrovica, Mostar, Nicosia), the socioeconomics of peace, and geocoded urban violence at Uppsala University. I like mountains and tattoos.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Calling Israeli settler actions a state-backed terror campaign is objective description. You can approve, disapprove, or not care—your opinion—but that's what it is. Settlers frequently commit unprovoked violence targeting civilians for political purposes, and have material support from the state.
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Arbetet @arbetet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
KULTUR ”Anledningen till att Åkesson inte kommer bjuda Mohamsson på stödröster är att 2026 är ett ödesår även för Sverigedemokraterna”, skriver @johannesklenell.bsky.social arbetet.se/2026/08/18/d...
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Jimmie Åkesson är livrädd för valresultatet
SD och Tidögänget skruvar upp rasismen till elva.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The photo “confirms what thousands of testimonies from Palestinian detainees have exposed, and what we and other organisations have been reporting for nearly three years now: Israeli detention facilities are torture camps for Palestinians.”
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Photo of bound Palestinian detainee corroborates Israeli torture reports, say rights groups
Image of man in underwear, blindfold and bound to iron rod has been widely shared on social media
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/07/2026
Elyas Abu Safia says his father Hussam can barely breathe or speak after more than 555 days in Israeli prison.
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Jailed Gaza hospital chief in life-threatening condition, rights group says
Elyas Abu Safia says his father Hussam can barely breathe or speak after more than 555 days in Israeli prison.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The US-Iran deal says to end combat in Lebanon, but neither Israel nor Hezbollah signed it. The sides fighting there committed to nothing, and just had another deadly exchange of fire. As with no Israelis or Palestinians signing the Gaza deal, it's hard to end war without including the combatants.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
As I said
The Guardian: Israel strikes targets in Lebanon as UN -Iran talks in Switzerland called off

Image of people amid the rubble of their destroyed home in Toul, South Lebanon
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 18/06/2026
This is a serious problem for Putin. He can only stay in power if the people around him think he's strong and Moscow getting droned by Ukraine sends the opposite signal: We started a war we can't win and now not even our capital city is safe anymore
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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Belfast anti-racist protest today. Loads of people.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Israel’s razing of southern Lebanon, where it is laying the groundwork for a larger occupation, means “villages are now blurred into ash.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Israel Is Using the Same Tactics in Lebanon That It Did in Gaza
Satellite images, photos and videos show the scope of widespread demolitions in southern Lebanon.
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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
www.dn.se/kultur/rolan...
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Roland Paulsen: En enda sjuksköterska är mer avgörande för välfärden än hela Klarna
Sverige brukade vara ett av världens mest jämlika länder. Roland Paulsen skriver vår tids värdeanalfabetism på på första maj.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return. Both are war crimes punishable under international law. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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'Like Gaza': IDF razes south Lebanon villages during cease-fire, sources say
Sources Describe a Policy Modeled on Gaza Operations, With Contractors and Heavy Machinery Demolishing Civilian Infrastructure South of the Litani; Officials Say It Aims to Prevent Residents' Return a...
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"A state sponsored ethnic cleansing" Former Israeli general Yaakov Orr in a detailed and scathing account of the Israeli cabinet's policy to empty large parts of the West Bank of its Palestinian population. (Hebrew). telem.berl.org.il/14608/
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טיהור אתני בחסות הממשלה | אלוף (מיל') יעקב אור (מנדי) >> תלם
תלם - במה לשיחה פוליטית אחרת, מיסודה של קרן ברל כצנלסון. תלם מבקש לקיים דיון מעמיק אודות האתגרים הניצבים בפני מדינת ישראל ולהציע תפיסה רחבה של דמותה העתידית הראויה, דרך עיסוק בשאלות יסוד, במדיניות ובא...
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Niklas Altermark @nklsaltrmrk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Postar den här tråden igen, eftersom den är så jäkla viktig. Varje progressivt projekt behöver ta som en viktig utgångspunkt de regelverk som omgärdar statlig och kommunal budgetering. Relationen mellan stat och kommun (och regioner) är central.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Every single article covering Israel should start by mentioning that they dubbed yesterday's operations in Lebanon "eternal darkness." You know that so much has already been normalised when this isn't even a cause for outrage. 303 people, at least, were murdered yesterday by Israel.
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming
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Filip Ejdus @filipejdus.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The European International Studies Association (EISA) Statement on Academic Freedom and University Autonomy in Serbia. eisa-net.org/eisa-stateme...
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EISA Statement on Academic Freedom and University Autonomy in Serbia, 8 April 2026  | EISA
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Frank Luntz @frankluntz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
• 60% of American adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel 🇮🇱. • That’s up from 53% last year and 42% in 2022. • In both political parties, a majority of adults under age 50 view Israel negatively. (84% of Democrats, 57% of Republicans) 👉🏻 pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🇱🇧🔴112 people killed in Israeli strikes today across Lebanon, mostly in Beirut. 837 wounded. This is the latest and not the final count from Lebanon's health ministry, in one of the deadliest days of the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
More attacks on Beirut just now. White House saying Lebanon not included in ceasefire. Iran saying attacks must stop or they will not take part in discussions.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 1,345 people and wounded 4,040 since March 2nd: — 125 children killed. — 91 women killed. — 53 healthcare workers killed. (Source: Lebanese Ministry of Health)
Chart and map from the Lebanese Ministry of Health showing the total number of those killed and injured since Israel began its latest attacks on Lebanon on 2 March 2026.
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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨 CFP: Disastrous Pasts And Sustainable Futures. Urban disasters and resilience in historical and social scientific perspectives. 🗓️ 29-30 June 2026 An interdisciplinary and international conference organised at the University of Warwick For more details, see warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... 🗃️
A picture of the devastated city of Napier in the wake of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Apartheid, evidence #357
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Knesset just passed a law mandating "Death Penalty for Terrorists", that will effectively apply only to Palestinians.
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 16/03/2026
But the Americans are like us. Almost every European country is 1-2 bad elections removed from being taken over by the far-right, so let's not pretend this is a uniquely American problem
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Aviv Tatarsky. One of the most committed Jewish Israeli activists in defending Palestinians in the West Bank. Attacked by settlers viciously yesterday in Dir Istya where he was helping a Palestinian farmer. Israeli soldiers were there and did nothing. Every. Day. Photo: @nirhasson.bsky.social on X
Aviv Tatarski. Face shows bruising after attacked by settlers.
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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.
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Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🔴🇱🇧 Over half a million people (517,000) have been displaced in #Lebanon over the past week in the latest conflict b/w Israel and Hezbollah, the government said The number is likely higher as the government data comes from the amount of people who registered on their platform
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Less than one week; 395 people killed
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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This looks great!
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Aida A. Hozic @hozic.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Contesting Imperialism(s) - Central and East European ISA conference in Sarajevo, BiH, June 17-19, 2026. Deadline for proposals - April 10, 2026. There will be a pre-conference workshop for young scholars. For info, please visit: ceeisa2026.com
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Three days ago, Israel ordered the south evacuated. Two days ago, they did the same to the southern suburbs. That’s more than one million people. Some, the most vulnerable, are sleeping rough by the sea or on sidewalks. Today, it is raining. War harms the poor the most.
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Department of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Climate change remains one of our outstanding global political issues. Here's a short thread of some of the Dept. of Govt's latest research on #climatepolicy in Sweden, Europe and globally (🧵)
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 02/03/2026
If you combine the inherent uncertainty of war with Trump, I think literally anything is possible now. We may see a revolution in Iran after weeks of bombing. Perhaps Trump declares "victory" within the hour. We might even see a Gulf monarchy collapse somehow
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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This is like the Iraq war - only more stupid, less planned, and with worse consequences (I didn’t think either of three was possible).
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I spent a bunch of time arguing that, based on available evidence, the Trump White House has no long-term plan for the Iran war, no answer for what happens next. Sen. Lindsey Graham confirms that, except I meant it as a criticism, and he, bafflingly, means it as a defense.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Trump’s 2016 criticism of the Iraq war was the US didn’t do enough war crimes. He argued that the US should’ve stolen oil and killed insurgents’ innocent family members. That’s what some prominent media figures presented to the public as isolationist, anti-intervention, anti-war, “Donald the Dove.”
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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My kid’s kindergarten has a more sophisticated pedagogy than the academic teacher course (to supervise doctoral students) I’m taking.
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Ashok Swain @ashoswai.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We are recruiting 2 fully funded PhD positions in Peace & Conflict Research (Uppsala University, Sweden). 1 General PhD position (open topic within peace & conflict research) 1 PhD position focused on Nuclear Disarmament Apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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2 Doctoral candidates in peace and conflict research
2 Doctoral candidates in peace and conflict research The Department of Peace and Conflict Research was established in 1971 to conduct peace research and offer courses in peace and conflict studies. Th
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Some thoughts on what Trump has done in Venezuela and what it might mean for US national security. Caveat: not a Latin America scholar so this is focused on US policy. Clearly huge consequences for Venezuela that others can address. First, despite the buildup, I didn't think Trump would do it. 1/
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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If this doesn't come with a UNGA Uniting for Peace resolution and global condemnation then the prohibition on the use of force is finished and the UN will go the way of the League of Nations. Ask the international lawyers in your life how they are because right now I wish I weren't 10 years sober
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
In another astounding ruling, the Israeli supreme court orders the eviction of Beduin Palestinian Ras Jaraba village to make way for the expansion of the city of Dimona. 500 residents, whose ancestors have lived on the land since Ottoman time, will be expelled to establish a Jewish neighbourhood.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The Biden administration was fully complicit in genocide, and anyone who served in it should be held accountable.
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Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
On the Democrats www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Lingering Delusion | Fintan O’Toole
Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.
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Ivan Gusic @ivangusic.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
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Ashok Swain @ashoswai.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Trump’s Gaza peace deal stops the bombs but risks burying justice. Without accountability, sovereignty, or real withdrawal, this is not peace but pause. Gaza needs self-determination and rebuilding, not trusteeship and foreign management. #MyPiece
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/10/2025
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
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Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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 · 07/10/2025
RIP
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