IoW project mentioned in the Special Issue on Perpetrators and Victims of War of the European Journal of International Law, Volume 29, Issue 3, 9 November 2018. Crime of Aggression before the International Criminal Court: Introduction to the Symposium was written by Dapo Akande who, in the same issue, contributed also with an article Treaty […]
Jennifer Welsh contributes chapter “The Responsibility to Protect and Non-State Armed Groups” to the newly-published book The Grey Zone: Civilian Protection Between Human Rights and the Laws of War. The volume brings together contributions from leading academic authorities and legal practitioners on the situation of civilians in the grey zone between human rights and the laws […]
Please follow this link to read the editorial, Talking About My Generation. The full Spring 2018 issue of the European Journal of Legal Studies can be downloaded here.
Ruben Reike contributes book review essay “The International Criminal Court and Its Effects on Active Armed Conflicts” to the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. The article reviews the following books: The International Criminal Court in Ongoing Intrastate Conflicts: Navigating the Peace–Justice Divide by Patrick S. Wegner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. pp. ix + 333 + […]
The UN Secretary-General has identified enhancing humanitarian access as one of the five core challenges to the protection of civilians in armed conflict. In recent years considerable attention has been devoted to identifying and mapping a wide range of practical constraints with respect to humanitarian operations and attempting to find ways of overcoming—or at least mitigating—their […]
Dapo Akande has recently published a piece on the International Legal Framework Regulating the Use of Armed Drones. The article, published in the October 2016 issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and available here, was co-authored with Christof Heyns – who was UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions – and 2 […]
In many, if not most, armed conflicts, far more deaths occur as a result of the humanitarian crisis created by the conflict rather than from hostilities. However, in many recent conflicts humanitarian actors have faced serious challenges in delivering much-needed relief supplies and services to civilians in need. The United Nations Secretary-General, in his recent […]
“Promoting Compliance with International Humanitarian Law”, Chatham House briefing by Emanula-Chiara Gillard (in the framework of the International Law Programme) Summary It is not the absence of law that is causing casualties, destruction and unprecedented displacement in armed conflict, but flagrant breaches of the most fundamental rules of international humanitarian law. Ways must be found […]
Ruben Reike contributed a chapter, titled “Conflict Prevention and R2P“, to the Oxford Handbook on the Responsibility to Protect, edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne. The chapter examines how the agenda of prevention of armed conflict relates to the principle of the responsibility to protect (R2P). While R2P was originally assumed to be […]
The Individualisation of War Project explores the tensions arising from the increased prominence of the individual in the theory and practice of armed conflict. One manifestation of this process of individualisation are the endeavours to enhance accountability for violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL). These include the establishment of […]