Joint Blog Series: Medical care in armed conflict PART II January 24, 2019 9 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Health Care / Joint Blog Series / Law and Conflict Marco Sassòli When do medical personnel lose their protection under IHL in armed conflict? Specifically, what acts ...
Joint Blog Series: Precautionary measures in urban warfare: A commander’s obligation to obtain information January 10, 2019 14 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Joint Blog Series / Law and Conflict Jonathan Horowitz Cities across the globe are expanding at unprecedented rates and this urban population boom is ...
Introducing the Latest Transatlantic Workshop Joint Blog Series January 9, 2019 3 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Joint Blog Series / Law and Conflict Sasha Radin In 2018, the Sixth Annual Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict once again ...
Machine autonomy and the constant care obligation December 11, 2018 11 mins read Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Chris Jenks & Rain Liivoja The debate about the way the international community should deal with autonomous weapon systems has ...
The human nature of international humanitarian law August 23, 2018 10 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict Eric Talbot Jensen International humanitarian law (IHL) regulates the use of force in armed conflict. It inherently provides ...
Autonomous weapons: Operationalizing meaningful human control August 15, 2018 16 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Merel Ekelhof For the second time this year, States will come together in the UN Convention on ...
Autonomous weapons and human control July 18, 2018 7 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / Weapons Tim McFarland Concerns about ensuring sufficient human control over autonomous weapon systems (AWS) have been prominent since ...
The world needs robust peacekeeping not aggressive peacekeeping May 15, 2018 10 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Counterterrorism / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2018 Mona Ali Khalil Since 1999, and in response to the tragic failures to protect civilians in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the ...
Human judgment and lethal decision-making in war April 11, 2018 8 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Paul Scharre For the fifth year in a row, government delegates meet at the United Nations in ...
The legality of flamethrowers: Taking unnecessary suffering seriously February 22, 2018 12 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Theo Boutruche Outside the academics and experts’ circles, discussions around weapons commonly make the news in at ...
Military influence operations & IHL: Implications of new technologies October 27, 2017 12 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Pontus Winther The use of smartphones, apps, social media and other methods of digital communication between people ...
IHL and Islam: An overview March 14, 2017 22 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Islamic Law / Law and Conflict / Primers / Religion Ahmed Al-Dawoody With armed conflicts taking place in so many parts of the Muslim world, the Islamic ...