The establishment of courts by armed groups: what is the legal basis? October 11, 2016 10 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict Ezequiel Heffes While the law of armed conflict is understood as granting armed groups the possibility to install judicial mechanisms in order to pass judgments ...
Protecting schools from military use: From Ancient Rome to today September 27, 2016 7 mins read Analysis / Education in Armed Conflict / Humanitarian Action / Special Protections Bede Sheppard The Safe Schools Declaration, opened for endorsement on 29 May 2015, outlines concrete steps that ...
An unwarranted human sacrifice in the Middle East September 26, 2016 12 mins read Counterterrorism / Law and Conflict / Religion / Stories Omar Mekky Earlier this month Muslims in the Middle East and across the world celebrated Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice. Those holy days honor ...
Humanitarianism at breaking point? New roles for local and international actors August 19, 2016 13 mins read Humanitarian Action / Review-related Claudia McGoldrick Is humanitarianism really at breaking point? The gap between today’s overwhelming needs and the constraints on international humanitarian actors’ efforts to address them, ...
Life after the atomic bomb: Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors August 9, 2016 17 mins read Interviews / Online publications / Review-related / Stories The editors 71 years ago today, the second atomic bomb fell on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. ...
Drawing the line between armed groups under IHL July 22, 2016 9 mins read Analysis / Armed Groups / Law and Conflict / Religion Ellen Nohle From Nigeria to Russia, the number of entities claiming affiliation with the Islamic State Group (ISG) is on the rise. In Colombia, concerns ...
Through a victim’s eyes: Interview with Terry Waite, humanitarian and former hostage July 15, 2016 12 mins read Humanitarian Principles / Interviews / Religion The editors Hostage-taking, torture and other forms of ill-treatment continue to put a tremendous strain on victims and their families. In this interview, Terry Waite ...
Nuclear weapons: 20 years since the ICJ advisory opinion and still difficult to reconcile with international humanitarian law July 8, 2016 8 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / Weapons Louis G. Maresca Everything we know about nuclear weapons, including the new information and analysis that has come to light in recent years, has only strengthened ...
European ‘migrant crisis’: Avoiding another wave of refugees living in limbo June 23, 2016 7 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Migration Pavle Kilibarda That the brutal excesses of the conflict in Syria, well into its sixth year, have proven capable of causing one of the greatest ...
Resisting the politicization of humanitarian action in the post-Cold War era June 14, 2016 5 mins read Events and highlights / Interviews / Law and Conflict / Videos The editors For Fyodor Lukyanov, the triumph of one political system at the end of the Cold ...
War crimes without criminal accountability? The case of Active Protection Systems June 1, 2016 6 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict Michael Kurt Riepl As weapon systems take over more and more functions in the targeting cycle that used to be fulfilled by humans, it is increasingly ...
