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Law derives its legitimacy from a specific way of exercising war: the colonial western state. In this essay, I argue that this specific way of waging war – and the institutions created to sustain it – underpin law’s authority in the western imagination.
Since the beginning of the last decade, when millions of people rose-up in revolutions against corruption and dictatorship across the Middle East, demanding their legitimate human rights, there was a widespread atmosphere of optimism and excitement for fundamental reforms. However, regretfully, these hopes soon faded away.
What kinds of ethical crises does one encounter while mourning the death of one’s intimate other during a pandemic, far away from home?
In part 2 of our coverage on the BLM protests that took place on June 9th, this article puts a spotlight on the protest’s implications for the student body and the Institute.
Voici la deuxième partie de notre couverture de la manifestation antiraciste du 9 juin dernier. Cet article se penche ainsi sur comment le corps étudiant de l’Institut a perçu, vécu et fait sens de la manifestation organisée par BLM suisse romande.
This article reviews the impressive anti-racist demonstration happening on June 9th in Geneva, placing it within a broader history of racism and police brutality in Switzerland.
Cet article revient sur l’impressionnante manifestation antiraciste du 9 juin dernier à Genève, et tente d’explorer les questions plus larges que posent les problèmes de brutalité policière et de racisme en Suisse.
COVID-19 has shown us that the history of pandemics is deeply entangled with mental shortcuts and biases different societies hold in responding to a crisis. What then can we learn from this very global yet deeply personal experience?
With an unresponsive UN Security Council and an increasing securitisation of global health, whom do we hold accountable when conflicts continue to brew in a pandemic?
This quaint and quiet town right outside the Geneva frontiers is a place where revolutionary ideas have given birth.
First time to be conducted online, the GISA GA raised questions of procedural inclusivity among initiatives, especially in the changes of its statutes.
Lack of transparency in communication, financial aid, and the Institute’s bilingualism policy were also placed under the spotlight in the assembly for Master’s students.
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