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Benjamin R. Farley
| Mar 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Declaration of War on Hamas: A Modern Invocation of Recognized Belligerency? Hours after Hamas launched a horrific and unprecedently large-scale terrorist assault on Israel, the Israeli Security Cabinet invoked, for the first...
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Douglas Wilson
| Feb 28, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Regulating Military Force Series, Use of Force
Regulating Military Force Series – A UK Perspective on the Use of Force and the UN Security Council Editors’ note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion,...
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Marika Sosnowski
| Jul 6, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Not Dead but Sleeping: Toward a Broader Understanding of Ceasefires The concept of a ceasefire as offering a temporary pause during armed conflict dates back at least one thousand years and has religious provenance – ceasefires were originally known as a “truce...
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Richard Salomon
| Dec 3, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Occupation
Occupation Resistance, War-Rebels, and the Lieber Code The origin of the codified law of belligerent occupation is often traced to the Hague Regulations of 1899 (updated in 1907). However, the Lieber Code of 1863 laid important and underappreciated legal groundwork...
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Rob McLaughlin
| Sep 17, 2020 | AoW Posts, Conflict Classification, History of LOAC, Topics
Whither Recognition of Belligerency? Delineating, defining, and dealing with how the law of armed conflict applies to civil wars and other non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) has presented constant legal challenges over the last two decades. Numerous...
