War on the coastline: mitigating civilian harm in the littorals

May 17, 2023 12 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Prashant Kahlon

With 80 per cent of the world’s population living within 100 kilometers of a coastline, and maritime trade accounting for around 90 per ...

IHL in action: seven patterns of respect

November 19, 2020 16 mins read Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Action / Influencing Behaviour in Armed Conflict / Law and Conflict / Religion Juliane Garcia Ravel & Madalena Vasconcelos Rosa

While violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) are seemingly pervasive and remain a brutal reality ...

IEDs and the Mine Ban Convention: a minefield of definitions?

September 17, 2019 12 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Landmines and the Law / Law and Conflict / Weapons Wen Zhou & Andrea Raab

The year 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Anti-Personnel ...

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 ...

The potential human costs of eschewing cyber operations

May 31, 2019 11 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Cyber / Human Costs of Cyber / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Colonel Gary P Corn

Over the last few decades, militaries have grown increasingly dependent on electronics, computational systems and ...

Legal regulation of AI weapons under international humanitarian law: A Chinese perspective

May 2, 2019 9 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Law and Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2019 / Weapons Qiang Li & Dan Xie

Arguably, international humanitarian law (IHL) evolves with the development of emerging technologies. The history of ...

Just out! ‘Conflict in Syria’, a new issue of the Review

April 11, 2019 11 mins read Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Religion / Review-related Ellen Policinski

In 2011, protests in Syria descended into violence and chaos. Eight years later, this once ...

Teaching international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip: A success story amid complexities

March 13, 2019 6 mins read Generating Respect for IHL / Law and Conflict Samer Mousa

In the past few years, despite the difficult prevailing conditions, there has been a paradigm shift in how international humanitarian law (IHL) has ...

Status of medical personnel: Clear as mud?

February 25, 2019 10 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Health Care / Law and Conflict Rain Liivoja

The protection of the wounded and sick, and of medical personnel, stands as the cornerstone of international humanitarian law (IHL). Indeed, the first ...

Joint Blog Series: Sieges, evacuations and urban warfare: Thoughts from the Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict

February 5, 2019 4 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Joint Blog Series / Law and Conflict Laurie Blank

Laurie Blank recently wrote some of her thoughts on sieges on EJIL Talk! as part ...

Joint Blog Series: Medical care in armed conflict PART II

January 24, 2019 9 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Health Care / Joint Blog Series / Law and Conflict Marco Sassòli

When do medical personnel lose their protection under IHL in armed conflict? Specifically, what acts ...

Joint Blog Series: Better safe than sorry: Transferring detainees safely to Coalition Partners

January 20, 2019 3 mins read Detention / Joint Blog Series / Law and Conflict / Migration / Torture Tilman Rodenhäuser

Over the weekend, the third post in our Joint Series was published by Lawfare—Better safe than sorry: Transferring ...

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