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Marten Zwanenburg
| Aug 8, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Forced Conscription in the Self-Declared Republics The Guardian recently reported that men in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine are being forcibly conscripted into the armed forces of the self-declared Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) and...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Aug 2, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Forced Civilian Labor in Occupied Territory On July 27, the Institute for the Study of War reported that “Russian occupation officials are likely leveraging food aid and other humanitarian assistance to force occupied populations to cooperate...
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René Provost
| Jul 15, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Rebel Prosecutions of Foreign Fighters in Ukraine On 1 July 2022 Russian state media reported that two British nationals captured by the “Donetsk People’s Republic” in eastern Ukraine would be prosecuted for “mercenary activities,” in...
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Brianne McGonigle Leyh
| Jul 13, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Other Bodies of Law, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Documentation and Investigation Responses to Serious International Crimes The armed conflict in Ukraine dates to 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. Since that time, a number of important documentation and investigation efforts began, both...
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Marika Sosnowski
| Jul 12, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Lessons from Syria’s Ceasefires Ceasefires are generally seen by academics, policy makers, and military and political personnel as being humanitarian and positive, or at worst, benign. However, increasing research and first-hand experience...
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James Kraska
| Jul 11, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – The Attack on the Vasily Bekh and Targeting Logistics Ships On June 17, Ukrainian forces successfully used a U.S.-supplied Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile to attack and sink a Russian resupply ship that “almost certainly” carried weapons and...
