by Cochav Elkayam-Levy, Michal Gilad, Ilya Rudyak, Irwin Cotler | Mar 3, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development
The New Crime of Kinocide Editors’ note: This post is based on the work of The Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes Against Women and Children and its report “Kinocide: Uncovering the Weaponization of Families on October 7, 2023.” On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched...
by Christopher Hart, David Wallace | Feb 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Maritime
The Silent Service: The Law of Armed Conflict’s Blind Spots Regarding Modern Submarine Warfare Submarines play a critical role in warfare due to their stealth, speed, endurance, and firepower. These attributes make them the “queens of the chessboard” in naval strategy...
by Lindsay Freeman | Feb 26, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Terror, Chaos, and Shame: When Information Operations Constitute War Crimes The informational dimension of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has provoked important debate around the legal framework applicable to information operations in armed conflict....
by Samuel White | Feb 25, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict
One Year On: Are the ICRC’s Principles for Civilian Hackers Shaping the Laws of War? In October 2023, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) laid down a stark warning: cyber warfare must not spiral into lawless destruction. Their eight rules for...
by Ken Watkin | Feb 24, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, featured post, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
I Spy: Espionage, Perfidy, and Fighting in the Shadows In a 2024 Articles of War post, I identified that intelligence gathering, including espionage, is authorized by both treaty and customary international law during armed conflict. For international armed conflicts,...
by Revaz Tkemaladze | Feb 21, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Use of Force
Ukraine Symposium – Litigating the Act of Aggression as Human Rights Claims The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine reports that since February 2022, there have been 40,176 verified civilian casualties caused by the conflict in Ukraine: 12,340 killed and...