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Martha M. Bradley,
Marko Svicevic
| Mar 31, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification
Conflict Classification in Eastern DRC: IAC, NIAC, or Both? Enveloped in a myriad of armed conflicts, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently witnessed a significant escalation of hostilities when the March 23 Movement (M23) seized the provincial capital...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Mar 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Land Mines: An Explainer Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has ignited discussions within and between NATO States concerning the international conventions that ban the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster...
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Inna Zavorotko,
Oleksii Plotnikov
| Mar 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Ukraine’s New Voluntary Report on the Implementation of IHL In late 2024, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (MoDU) joined a relatively small but growing family of States that has published voluntary reports on implementation of international...
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Sean Watts
| Mar 27, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law, Weapons Law
Assessing the Ottawa Anti-Personnel Mine Convention Withdrawals As security along their borders has deteriorated, Eastern European, Baltic, and Nordic States have scrambled to update and adapt their national defense strategies. Nearly all these States have publicly...
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Masoud Zamani
| Mar 26, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies
How Meaningful is “Meaningful Human Control” in LAWS Regulation? In recent years, the concept of “meaningful human control” (MHC) has emerged as a key consideration in regulating lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS). This standard seeks to ensure substantial human...
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Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| Mar 25, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict
Israel-Hamas 2025 Symposium – Humanitarian Relief as a Bargaining Chip Questions concerning the use of the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare have been discussed at length over the course of the past 536 days of war in the Gaza Strip. Some have submitted...
