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Stephen Wilkinson,
Yvette Issar,
Emilie Fitzsimons,
Matias Thomsen,
Alice Priddy
| Jan 21, 2025 | AoW Posts, Beyond Compliance Symposium, Blog
Beyond Compliance Symposium – Broadening the Lens: Rethinking Civilian Harm within International Humanitarian Law Editors’ note: This post forms part of the Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict, featured across Articles of War and...
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Laurie R. Blank,
Daphné Richemond-Barak
| Jan 17, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies
When Technology Meets Humanity: Harnessing New and Emerging Technologies at the End of Conflict New and emerging technologies offer significant contributions toward facilitating the end of conflict and protecting and easing the effects of conflict on the civilian...
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Robert Lawless
| Jan 15, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
Ukraine Symposium – The Budapest Memorandum’s History and Role in the Conflict Last month of 2024 marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum, part of an agreement by which Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in return for security assurances...
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Nicholas Tsagourias
| Jan 14, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, Use of Force
Israel’s Actions in Syria and the Outer Limits of Self-Defence Following the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, Israel carried out a series of airstrikes across Syria targeting military facilities, weapons and ammunition depots, defence systems, and Syrian naval...
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William H. Boothby
| Jan 13, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Weapons Law
The Drone Threat, the Laser Response, and the Law – Part II The first part of this two-part post, described and explained the weapons law principles and rules that apply to suicide or kamikaze drones. It also set forth and explained applicable targeting law principles...
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William H. Boothby
| Jan 10, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Targeting, Weapons Law
The Drone Threat, the Laser Response, and the Law – Part I In conflicts during the last few years, unmanned air weapons, commonly referred to as drones, have increasingly been used to undertake attacks of ground targets. These attacks have recently involved large...