Administration of justice by armed groups: Some legal and practical concerns November 22, 2018 13 mins read Analysis / Armed Groups / Detention / Law and Conflict / Religion Ezequiel Heffes Geneva Call recently issued a report on challenges faced by armed non-State actors (ANSAs) in ...
The potential human cost of cyber operations: Starting the conversation November 14, 2018 14 mins read Analysis / Cyber / Human Costs of Cyber / Law and Conflict / Religion Laurent Gisel & Lukasz Olejnik Cyber attacks, defence and security are increasingly high on the agenda of technology and policy ...
‘Basics’ won’t do: A response to Marc DuBois’ ‘new humanitarian basics’ November 13, 2018 14 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Protracted Conflict / Sexual Violence Ricardo Fal-Dutra Santos This blog post aims to challenge Marc DuBois’ proposition of a ‘new humanitarian basics’ and ...
Call for papers: Historical perspectives on medical care in armed conflict October 24, 2018 5 mins read Call for papers / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Trevor Keck The rules protecting medical care are considered one of the cornerstones of international humanitarian law (IHL). The first modern IHL treaty (e.g., Geneva ...
How identity affects the internal threats aid workers face October 18, 2018 9 mins read Analysis / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Identity / Sexual Violence / The most read blog posts in 2018 Adelicia Fairbanks The #AidToo movement has shown that aid workers are not invulnerable to internal security threats ...
Shining a spotlight on sexual violence in war: The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize October 11, 2018 8 mins read Analysis / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Helen Durham The Nobel Committee have awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Nadia Murad and Denis ...
Revisiting the nexus: Numbers, principles and the issue of social change October 4, 2018 11 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Protracted Conflict Gilles Carbonnier The decades-old debate on the humanitarian-development divide has resurfaced with conflict prevention and peace as a third dimension in the so-called nexus. This ...
Internal displacement: Some reflections on cracking the urban challenge September 23, 2018 11 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Protracted Conflict Catherine-Lune Grayson The world is rapidly urbanizing and so is internal displacement. Yet we—humanitarians—often fail to properly understand how displaced people cope in such settings ...
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons one year on: Reflections from Hiroshima September 20, 2018 6 mins read Law and Conflict / Stories / Weapons Helen Durham Today marks one year since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was declared open for signature. Its adoption confirmed that a ...
Speaking law to business: 10-year anniversary of the Montreux Document on PMSCs September 17, 2018 7 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict Jonathan Cuénoud & Tilman Rodenhäuser For centuries, private contractors have been used in warfare. Their involvement in armed conflicts rose substantially in the early 2000s, triggering important legal ...
Bombs & blast waves: Why children in conflict need special care September 13, 2018 9 mins read Analysis / Children in conflict / Humanitarian Action / Stories Paul Reavley I’ve deployed numerous times during my career in the military, and on every deployment, I ...
The (im)possibility of meaningful human control for lethal autonomous weapon systems August 29, 2018 13 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / Weapons Elke Schwarz This week, the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) is holding their third meeting at the UN Certain ...
