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Karen Hulme
| Apr 12, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Other Bodies of Law, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Unprecedented Environmental Risks Environmental damage in armed conflict is generally caused in four ways: (1) the conduct of hostilities, i.e., the use of means and methods of warfare (weapons and tactics); (2) natural resource extraction...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Apr 11, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Weaponizing Civilians: Human Shields in Ukraine Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine has become a horrific demonstration of the many ways a State can violate international humanitarian law (IHL) and how individual soldiers and...
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Véronique Aubert
| Apr 8, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – War Crimes against Children For the 452 million children living in conflict zones (1 in 6 globally), the effects of conflict are multiple, wide-ranging, and devastating. With an increase in asymmetric warfare globally, children are targets of...
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Gary Corn
| Apr 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – The Ukraine Conflict, Smart Phones, and the LOAC of Takings According to at least one report, in the course of their operations Russian forces entered residential complexes in the suburbs of Kyiv, displaced residents from their apartments,...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Apr 5, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Russian Booby-Traps and the Ukraine Conflict As Russian troops pull back from the Kyiv area, they are leaving behind horrific evidence of international humanitarian law (IHL) violations and war crimes. Images from the suburb of Bucha,...
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Sean Watts,
Hitoshi Nasu
| Apr 4, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – A War Crimes Primer on the Ukraine-Russia Conflict More than a month into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, allegations of war crimes have proliferated from media, advocacy groups, international organizations, and even States....
