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Jann K. Kleffner
| Apr 14, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Ukraine’s Levée en Masse and the Obligation to Ensure Respect for LOAC In its quest to mount military resistance to the Russian invasion, Ukraine has looked beyond its regular armed forces to its citizens and others. The status of some...
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Blaise Cathcart
| Apr 13, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
The Creeping Normality of LOAC Noncompliance Taking stock of the state of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) may be one of the most important tasks facing international law today. In that vein, it is well worth asking whether the Law of Armed Conflict is still “fit for...
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Karen Hulme
| Apr 12, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Other Bodies of Law, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Unprecedented Environmental Risks Environmental damage in armed conflict is generally caused in four ways: (1) the conduct of hostilities, i.e., the use of means and methods of warfare (weapons and tactics); (2) natural resource extraction...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Apr 11, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Weaponizing Civilians: Human Shields in Ukraine Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine has become a horrific demonstration of the many ways a State can violate international humanitarian law (IHL) and how individual soldiers and...
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Véronique Aubert
| Apr 8, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – War Crimes against Children For the 452 million children living in conflict zones (1 in 6 globally), the effects of conflict are multiple, wide-ranging, and devastating. With an increase in asymmetric warfare globally, children are targets of...
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Gary Corn
| Apr 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – The Ukraine Conflict, Smart Phones, and the LOAC of Takings According to at least one report, in the course of their operations Russian forces entered residential complexes in the suburbs of Kyiv, displaced residents from their apartments,...
