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Martha M. Bradley
| Jun 25, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume
Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume – The Development of the LOAC by International Criminal Tribunals Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict (Sandesh Sivakumaran and Christian R. Burne...
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Martha M. Bradley,
Marko Svicevic
| Apr 8, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Collective Self-Defense and the Internationalization of Armed Conflicts in Eastern DRC Nearly a decade after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a ceasefire agreement with the March 23 (M23) rebel movement, violence has once again erupted in the...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Dec 14, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Classification of the Conflict(s) The threshold questions in any international humanitarian law (IHL) analysis are whether an armed conflict is underway as a matter of law and, if so, what type. They are determinative questions because the...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| May 9, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Are We at War? Last week, allegations that the United States and a number of other NATO nations are providing intelligence to Ukraine that enables attacks against Russian forces continued to surface. Broadly speaking, the reports of...
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David Wallace
| Feb 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, LOAC History, Occupation
Reflections on the Law of Occupation: Afghanistan and Iraq A recent New York Times article discussed, in part, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, raising important, yet underexplored, questions about occupations under the law of armed conflict (LOAC). The...
