What private businesses need to know about international humanitarian law

November 26, 2024 11 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Law and Conflict / Scope of application Matt Pollard, Fauve Kurnadi & Coline Beytout-Lamarque

Private businesses that operate in situations of armed conflict, do business with a government or ...

Defining armed conflict: some clarity in the fog of war

May 2, 2024 11 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Humanitarian Principles / Scope of application / Special Themes / The Geneva Conventions at 75 / Topics Samit D’Cunha, Tristan Ferraro & Thomas de Saint Maurice

Today, there are over 120 armed conflicts around the world, involving over 60 states and ...

How would IHL apply to hostilities in outer space?

November 2, 2023 16 mins read Analysis / IHL / Outer Space / Scope of application / War, law, and outer space Svenja Berrang

Despite the longstanding efforts of the international community to prevent an arms race in outer ...

Black magic, zombies and dragons: a tale of IHL in the 21st Century

September 3, 2019 14 mins read Armed Groups / Conduct of Hostilities / Counterterrorism / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Principles / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Scope of application / Sexual Violence / Technology in Humanitarian Action / Terrorism and IHL / The most read blog posts in 2019 Helen Durham

As we marked the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions last month, I want to ...