August 12th: hopes and wishes? August 12, 2020 9 mins read Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / History / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence British Red Cross-ICRC customary IHL research team Today’s 71st anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions is an opportunity to recall once more ...
An unnecessary evil: the discursive battle over the meaning of nuclear weapons August 6, 2020 13 mins read Analysis / History / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Magnus Løvold The testimonies of the victims and survivors of nuclear weapons prompt us to imagine the ...
From the ‘Spanish Flu’ to COVID-19: lessons from the 1918 pandemic and First World War April 23, 2020 10 mins read COVID-19 and conflict / History Cédric Cotter The influenza pandemic from 1918-1919, commonly known as the ‘Spanish Flu’, was the most severe health disaster in recent history. The chaos and ...
Cultural property protection: a humanitarian concern February 13, 2020 8 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / History / Law and Conflict / Religion / Sexual Violence Jennifer Price-Jones Historic cities, monuments, antiquities and cultural ceremonies transcend human generations, helping construct a sense of ...
Memory and war: does time really heal? December 17, 2019 6 mins read History / Humanitarian Action / Identity / Review-related Kvitoslava Krotiuk Commemorating the centenary of the first Remembrance Day, dedicated to remembering members of the armed forces who have died in the line of ...
Vincent de Paul: A groundbreaking humanitarian August 14, 2019 11 mins read History / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Religion Keltoum Irbah More than 350 years after his death in 1660, the life and trailblazing humanitarian work ...
Is arms control over emerging technologies just a peacetime luxury? Lessons learned from the First World War January 18, 2019 14 mins read History / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Weapons Eric Germain At the turn of the twentieth century, many engineers with fertile imaginations—from France’s Gustave Gabet to America’s Orville Wright—hoped that their inventions would ...