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Anna Rosalie Greipl
| Aug 20, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict CyCon 2025 Series, Blog, Compliance
CyCon 2025 Series – Deciding with AI Systems: Rethinking Dynamics in Military Decision-Making Editors’ note: This post is part of a series that features presentations at this year’s 17th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn, Estonia. Its...
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Robert Kolb
| Aug 13, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Indirect or Reverberating Excessive Collateral Damage in Modern IHL Article 51(5)(b), of the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 codifies the rule or principle of proportionality in offensive or defensive attacks in the following terms, Among...
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Aurel Sari
| Aug 11, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Indiscriminate Attacks, Proportionality and the Meaning of “Incidental” Civilian Harm Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article, “Indiscriminate Attacks and the Proportionality Rule: What is Incidental Civilian Harm?” in the Journal of Conflict and...
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Cochav Elkayam-Levy,
Irwin Cotler,
Stewart Wiseman
| Aug 8, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Kinocide as a Strategy of Terrorism: Legal Frameworks and Case Law Analysis The intentional targeting of families by terrorist organizations constitutes a particularly egregious form of violence that weaponizes the emotional and social core of civilian life. Recently...
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Gerald Mako
| Aug 6, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber
Firewalls and Fault Lines: Cyber War in the Middle East Following the Iran-Israel War, a conflict blending relentless Israel Defense Force (IDF) airstrikes with Iranian missile and drone barrages, some Middle Eastern battlefields have quieted, making it easy to forget...