Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum

Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum

by | Aug 26, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Identifying NIAC Series

Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge...
Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text

Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text

by | Aug 25, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, featured post, Targeting

Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article “Target Selection by Autonomous Weapons Systems: What Does the Duty of Target Verification Require?,” published as an Exeter Centre for...
Identifying NIAC Series – Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification

Identifying NIAC Series – Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification

by | Aug 25, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Identifying NIAC Series

Identifying NIAC Series – Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge University...
Identifying NIAC Series – Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict

Identifying NIAC Series – Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict

by | Aug 24, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Identifying NIAC Series

Identifying NIAC Series – Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict Having spent the better part of a decade researching, writing, thinking, and teaching non-international armed conflict (NIAC), I am delighted to share the culmination of that work: my recent...
Using (and Abusing) Polling: The Martens Clause and Autonomous Weapons

Using (and Abusing) Polling: The Martens Clause and Autonomous Weapons

by | Aug 21, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies

Using (and Abusing) Polling: The Martens Clause and Autonomous Weapons Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s recent article, “Abhorrence and Autonomy: On the Place of Public Attitudes in the Debate on Militarised Artificial Intelligence” published in...
Killings of Prisoners of War and Refusal of Quarter – Present and Past

Killings of Prisoners of War and Refusal of Quarter – Present and Past

by | Aug 19, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict

Killings of Prisoners of War and Refusal of Quarter – Present and Past Modern international humanitarian law (IHL) protects prisoners against attack or mistreatment from the moment they surrender or do something akin to surrender. Relevant provisions include Articles...