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Samuel White
| Oct 14, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Mission Command Responsibility When Justice Paul Brereton’s report on alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan was released, it sent shockwaves in Australia and internationally. It confronted and confirmed uncomfortable truths: that within Australia’s most elite...
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Charles Garraway
| Oct 10, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, In Honor of Françoise Hampson, Law of Armed Conflict
In Honor of Françoise Hampson – Fact-Finding in Law of Armed Conflict Investigations Editors’ note: This post is part of a series to honor Françoise Hampson, who passed away on April 18, 2025. These posts recognize Professor Hampson’s work and the significant...
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Tom Gal
| Sep 19, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Revisiting Customary IHL Series
Revisiting Customary IHL Series – A Question of Methodology: Should International Criminal Law Shape IHL? Editors’ note: This post is part of a series relating to the ICRC’s Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of...
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Gary Corn
| Aug 5, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict
Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part II Editors’ note: In a prior post Professor Gary Corn described recent cyber operations undertaken during conflict between Iran and Israel. He related details of the hacking group, Predatory...
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Erica Harper
| Aug 4, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict
From Outrage to Engagement: Might Promoting Compliance Succeed Where Condemnation Has Failed? The mood at this year’s European Humanitarian Forum (EHF) oscillated between frustration, foreboding, and a pervasive sense of hyper-normalization. The Secretary-General of...
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Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| Aug 1, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Prosecuting the Starvation War Crime in Germany: The Yarmouk Case On 6 June 2024, the Investigative Judge at the Federal Court of Justice issued arrest warrants for five individuals apprehended in Germany. The suspects, taken into custody a month later, allegedly...
