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Dora Velenczei
| Jul 22, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Madleen Incident and the Gaza Naval Blockade On June 9, 2025, Israeli naval forces intercepted the Madleen, a UK-flagged sailboat operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, attempting to breach Israel’s longstanding naval blockade of Gaza. Among those aboard were...
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Ken Watkin
| Jul 18, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Intelligence Wars, Their Warriors, and Legal Ambiguity – Part II: Ambiguity Editors’ note: This post is the second in a two-part series that explores the role both military and civilian intelligence organizations perform in armed conflict. The first post in this...
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Ken Watkin
| Jul 16, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Intelligence Wars, Their Warriors, and Legal Ambiguity – Part I: Wars and Warriors Editors’ note: This post is part of a two-part series that explores the role military and civilian intelligence organizations perform in contemporary hostilities. On June 13, 2025, the...
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Inna Zavorotko,
Oleksii Plotnikov
| Jul 15, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
What Is Left After Leaving Ottawa? With 165 member States (at the time of writing), the Ottawa Convention is arguably the most widely recognized international treaty on conventional weapons. It was long regarded as a triumph of civil society, with progress reported on...
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Robert Kolb
| Jul 14, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Cross-Linkages between Non-Adverse Derogation and Non-Renunciation of Rights in Modern IHL Articles 6/6/6/7 of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GCs) allow belligerent States to conclude special agreements either to implement their duties under international...
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Thomas Wheatley
| Jul 2, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
The Myth of Jus ad Bellum–Jus in Bello Purity In modern international law, the separation of jus ad bellum (the law governing the right to go to war) and jus in bello (the law governing conduct in war) is frequently treated as dogma. For some, this separation is...
