Patryk I. Labuda

Dr. Labuda works at the intersection of international law, peace and security studies, and global history. 

Trained in law and history at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), Dr. Labuda earned his PhD from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He has held positions at the Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Zurich, University of Amsterdam, New York University School of Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Before his academic career, Dr. Labuda worked full-time for the European Union's security missions in DR Congo and Libya, a rule-of-law think tank in Sudan and South Sudan, and an NGO in Brussels.

Dr. Labuda has two main areas of expertise:

1) the impact of global governance actors, in particular international courts and UN peace operations, on domestic law and politics, especially in central Africa;

2) global legal ordering through a post-colonial Global South-East(ern European) lens, currently double standards in international law and Second World approaches to international law (SWAIL).

He has published on various doctrinal legal debates, ranging from the UN Security Council’s Chapter VII powers to complementarity and immunities at the International Criminal Court.

Drawing on over a decade of work and research experience in Africa - with a regional focus on the law, politics and history of the DR Congo, Central African Republic, and the Sudans - Dr. Labuda now supports justice initiatives and dialogue between the Global South(s) and Global East(s).