Data-driven environmental decision-making and action in armed conflict

June 1, 2021 12 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / War, law and the environment Wim Zwijnenburg

A digital revolution through a myriad of earth observation data and open-source investigations is reshaping ...

Overcoming the disconnect: environmental protection and armed conflicts

May 27, 2021 10 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / War, law and the environment Ambassador Marja Lehto

Environmental effects of armed conflicts do not only result from the conduct of hostilities but ...

Fighting without a Planet B: how IHL protects the natural environment in armed conflict

May 25, 2021 17 mins read Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / War, law and the environment Vanessa Murphy & Helen Obregón Gieseken

Armed conflicts from Kuwait to Vietnam continue to remind us that the environment can be ...

Feasible precautions during urban attacks: the ‘art’ of the practically possible

May 19, 2021 13 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Urban warfare Major Jon Griffiths

Every military operation conducted within a city is likely to affect the people living there, ...

Preparedness in urban operations: a commander’s planning checklist to protect civilians

May 11, 2021 12 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Religion / Urban warfare Sahr Muhammedally

Implementing international humanitarian law’s (IHL) precautionary measures for both defending and attacking forces is a ...

Where are they? Three things the families of missing persons teach us about war and peace

May 6, 2021 13 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action Filipa Schmitz Guinote & Eva Svoboda

Protecting family links and helping to prevent and, whenever possible, resolve cases of missing persons requires action during armed conflict and other situations ...

In good faith: legal advice during aerial targeting in urban areas

May 4, 2021 14 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Urban warfare Craig Jones

Military legal advisers today play a key role during various military operations, including aerial targeting ...

War and the city: a history

April 29, 2021 6 mins read Analysis / History / Humanitarian Action / Urban warfare Daniel Palmieri

As long as there have been cities, wars have been staged within them. While the term ‘urban warfare’ conjures more recent images of ...

Urban warfare: an age-old problem in need of new solutions

April 27, 2021 17 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Urban warfare Laurent Gisel, Pilar Gimeno Sarciada, Ken Hume & Abby Zeith

Urban warfare is not a new phenomenon; cities have featured as a stage for violence ...

A humanitarian duty to integrity

April 8, 2021 7 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies Sean McDonald

The digital transformation of humanitarian operations raises (at least) two existential issues: one, how do humanitarians preserve what is unique about their work ...

The ‘fog of war’ . . . and information

March 30, 2021 8 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies Sandrine Tiller, Pierrick Devidal & Delphine van Solinge

Misinformation, disinformation and hate speech (MDH) has become a ubiquitous feature of the ‘information’ or ‘digital’ age. In conflict settings, so-called ‘fake news’ ...

COVID-19 vaccine: three considerations for equitable access within countries at war

March 24, 2021 9 mins read Analysis / COVID-19 and conflict / Health Care / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Charles Deutscher

Equitable access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines will be the defining global issue of ...