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Alice Edwards
| Jun 3, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Prosecuting Wartime Sexual Torture: The Uneven Trajectory of International Jurisprudence Sexual violence in armed conflict is rarely the product of a few undisciplined soldiers. In today’s major wars, it is frequently deployed as a deliberate method of domination,...
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Oded Hen
| May 29, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Are Evacuation Orders Unlawful Under International Law? A Case Study of Southern Lebanon Recent commentaries have characterized evacuation orders in contemporary armed conflicts, including those of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in southern Lebanon, as forcible...
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Robert Kolb,
Pavle Kilibarda
| May 20, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification
Statehood in Conflict Classification: Revisiting Recognition in Contemporary IHL After more than a decade since the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo and the independence and admission of South Sudan into the United Nations, there has been another rise...
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Olivia Flasch
| May 6, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Use of Force
Revisiting Application of Jus ad Bellum during an Ongoing International Armed Conflict The relationship between the existence of an international armed conflict (IAC) and the legality of the use of force under the jus ad bellum (JAB) remains conceptually distinct but...
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Ken Watkin
| May 1, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation
Patriotic War: Total Defence, Resistance, and Additional Protocol I Russia’s clear aggression towards Ukraine and its thinly veiled “hybrid war” against its other European neighbours has rightly caused alarm amongst these threatened States. European countries such as...
