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Antonio Coco
| Aug 18, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict CyCon 2025 Series, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
CyCon 2025 Series – Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: The Current State of International Law Editors’ note: This post is part of a series that features presentations at this year’s 17th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn,...
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Robert Kolb
| Aug 13, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Indirect or Reverberating Excessive Collateral Damage in Modern IHL Article 51(5)(b), of the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 codifies the rule or principle of proportionality in offensive or defensive attacks in the following terms, Among...
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Aurel Sari
| Aug 11, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Indiscriminate Attacks, Proportionality and the Meaning of “Incidental” Civilian Harm Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article, “Indiscriminate Attacks and the Proportionality Rule: What is Incidental Civilian Harm?” in the Journal of Conflict and...
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Gary Corn
| Aug 5, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict
Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part II Editors’ note: In a prior post Professor Gary Corn described recent cyber operations undertaken during conflict between Iran and Israel. He related details of the hacking group, Predatory...
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Erica Harper
| 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...
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Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| 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...