From Outrage to Engagement: Might Promoting Compliance Succeed Where Condemnation Has Failed?

From Outrage to Engagement: Might Promoting Compliance Succeed Where Condemnation Has Failed?

by | Aug 4, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict

From Outrage to Engagement: Might Promoting Compliance Succeed Where Condemnation Has Failed? The mood at this year’s European Humanitarian Forum (EHF) oscillated between frustration, foreboding, and a pervasive sense of hyper-normalization. The Secretary-General of...
Prosecuting the Starvation War Crime in Germany: The Yarmouk Case

Prosecuting the Starvation War Crime in Germany: The Yarmouk Case

by | Aug 1, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict

Prosecuting the Starvation War Crime in Germany: The Yarmouk Case On 6 June 2024, the Investigative Judge at the Federal Court of Justice issued arrest warrants for five individuals apprehended in Germany. The suspects, taken into custody a month later, allegedly...
Requiem for IHL: A Geopolitical Perspective

Requiem for IHL: A Geopolitical Perspective

by | Jul 30, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict

Requiem for IHL: A Geopolitical Perspective International humanitarian law (IHL) is facing a fundamental crisis. As Dr. Erica Harper recently noted, many actors around the world now openly violate the laws of war and face no consequences, accelerating the alarming...
Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part I

Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part I

by | Jul 25, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility, Targeting

Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part I Editors’ note: In this two-part series, Professor Gary Corn examines law of armed conflict issues arising from cyber operations conducted during the recent conflict between Israel and Iran. With...
Military Chaplains and Other Religious Personnel under IHL

Military Chaplains and Other Religious Personnel under IHL

by | Jul 23, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict

Military Chaplains and Other Religious Personnel under IHL Editors’ note: This post is drawn from the author’s article-length work, “Military Chaplains and Equivalent Religious Personnel Under International Humanitarian Law” appearing in the International Review of...
Protecting Inhabitants of Occupied Territory: Settler Violence in the West Bank

Protecting Inhabitants of Occupied Territory: Settler Violence in the West Bank

by , | Jul 22, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation

Protecting Inhabitants of Occupied Territory: Settler Violence in the West Bank On July 11, 2025, Israeli settlers allegedly beat Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, a Palestinian-American U.S. citizen and Florida native, to death during a confrontation near Al-Mazra’a...