by
Christopher Waters,
Steve Tiwa Fomekong,
Catherine Gribbin
| Mar 25, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Putting the Canadian in IHL: The Canadian Handbook on International Humanitarian Law The International Committee of the Red Cross observes that “[t]he rules of war are universal.” Few would dispute that as a general statement, particularly considering the universal...
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Chiara Redaelli,
Carlos Arévalo
| Mar 23, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Targeting
When Cartels Fight Back: El Mencho and the NIAC Question in Mexico On February 22, 2026, Mexican Army Special Forces launched a pre-dawn raid on a gated residential compound in Tapalpa, a mountainous municipality in the Western state of Jalisco. Their target was...
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Oded Hen
| Mar 20, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
What Aggregate Civilian-Combatant Ratios Tell Us, And What They Don’t: A Case Study from the Gaza Conflict Public debate about contemporary armed conflict increasingly relies on aggregate civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios as indicators of legality and moral...
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Paul A.L. Ducheine,
Terry D. Gill,
Peter Pijpers,
Marten Zwanenburg
| Mar 18, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
The Evolving Architecture of the International Law of Military Operations: Mapping the Future of Legal Research in Armed Conflict International law governing military operations is undergoing a period of profound transformation. Rapid technological innovation...
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Davit Khachatryan
| Mar 16, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
Armenia’s Military Procurement from India and Article 36 of the Additional Protocol I Armenia is rearming. Following the catastrophic losses of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War and the complete collapse of Russian reliability as a security guarantor, Yerevan has...
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Elliot Winter
| Mar 13, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Regulation of Levées en Masse: Extending Participation to Diaspora Populations The levée en masse (i.e., mass uprising) is a relatively rare form of conflict participation recognised by international humanitarian law (IHL). It was last expressed in treaty form in...
