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Michael N. Schmitt
| Mar 28, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Weaponizing Food The conflict in Ukraine is threatening the world’s food system. For instance, Ukraine and Russia supply around 30% of global wheat and barley exports. And over 40% of Ukrainian wheat export goes to Africa, where food shortages are endemic. In a March...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Mar 24, 2022 | AoW Posts, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Deportation of Ukrainian Civilians to Russia: The Legal Framework The United Nations estimates that the conflict in Ukraine has displaced over 10 million people. As of March 16, there are an estimated 6.4 million internally displaced persons (IDP) within the country....
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Adam Oler
| Mar 21, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Portending Genocide in Ukraine? As Russian forces continue their brutal invasion of Ukraine, worrisome signs are emerging about the prospect of genocide. While the term is used rather freely in the media, the prospect of actual genocide returning to Europe for the...
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Ruvi Ziegler
| Mar 17, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Humanitarian Protection, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Displacement from Conflict: Old Realities, New Protections? Globally, conflicts are the main source of both internal and cross-border displacement. The conflict prompted by Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, which is a considerable escalation from the original...
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Julia Grignon
| Mar 15, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Humanitarian Protection, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Law Applicable to Persons Fleeing Armed Conflicts As early as February 23rd, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, estimated that 5 million people may flee if hostilities erupted in Ukraine. As of March 13th, less than three...
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Jelena Pejic
| Mar 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
The Other Side of Civilian Protection: The 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention The initial stage of an international armed conflict, such as the one in Ukraine, inevitably focuses international attention on the conduct of hostilities. This is to be expected, given the...
