Consumer drones in conflict: where do they fit into IHL?

March 15, 2022 16 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Faine Greenwood

The skies over the conflict in Ukraine are filled with identical-looking consumer drones piloted by ...

Shifting the narrative: not weapons, but technologies of warfare

January 20, 2022 12 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action / Weapons Klaudia Klonowska

Debates concerning the regulation of choices made by States in conducting hostilities are often limited ...

Human shields under IHL: a path towards excessive legalization

November 16, 2021 7 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Urban warfare Zoi Lafazani

Human shields constitute part of the reality of contemporary armed conflicts, primarily fought in urban ...

Digital safe havens: sheltering civilians from military cyber operations

July 1, 2021 6 mins read Analysis / Avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Isabelle Peart

In the spring of 2021, the ICRC and Geneva Academy jointly organized a student essay ...

Fighting without a Planet B: how IHL protects the natural environment in armed conflict

May 25, 2021 17 mins read Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / War, law and the environment Vanessa Murphy & Helen Obregón Gieseken

Armed conflicts from Kuwait to Vietnam continue to remind us that the environment can be ...

In good faith: legal advice during aerial targeting in urban areas

May 4, 2021 14 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Urban warfare Craig Jones

Military legal advisers today play a key role during various military operations, including aerial targeting ...

Even ‘cyber wars’ have limits. But what if they didn’t?

March 9, 2021 11 mins read Analysis / Human Costs of Cyber / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Tilman Rodenhäuser & Kubo Mačák

Cyber operations have become a reality of today’s armed conflicts, and their use is likely ...

Legal review of new weapons: Scope of the obligation and best practices

October 6, 2016 8 mins read Events and highlights / Law and Conflict / Weapons The editors

Article 36 of the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (AP I) states that each State Party is required to determine whether ...