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Nick Allen
| May 7, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Environment and Consequence: Legal Practice and Risk in Jungle Operations To our men, British or Indian, the jungle was a strange, fearsome place; moving and fighting in it was a nightmare. We were too ready to classify jungle as “impenetrable” . . . to us it appeared...
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Mark Jessup
| Aug 12, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Oil Tankers as “Environmental Time Bombs,” or Not Last month, Russian forces used two anti-ship missiles to target an abandoned cargo tanker adrift in the northern Black Sea. The vessel was loaded with around 600 tons of diesel...
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Stavros Pantazopoulos
| Aug 4, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The ILC Draft Principles on Protection of the Environment in Armed Conflict Introduction After almost a decade working on the topic “Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts” (PERAC), the UN International Law Commission (ILC) adopted on second...