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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...
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Evin Stovall,
Hitoshi Nasu
| Apr 22, 2026 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Guilty Unless Proven Innocent: A Critique of Ali Kushayb Judgment In its recent judgment, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Ali Kushayb of multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity. A Janjaweed militia leader who operated in Darfur in 2003–2004,...
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Sally Longworth
| Apr 20, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Propaganda in Armed Conflict: Addressing Impact Through Upholding Legal Limits Editors’ note: The following post draws upon the article “Propaganda and Armed Conflict – Analysing the Legal Framework Through the Ongoing Conflict Between Ukraine and Russia”...
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Caitlin Chiaramonte,
Matt Montazzoli
| Apr 17, 2026 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Built Without a Battlefield: Challenges of a Cold Case War Crimes Prosecution Australian authorities recently arrested Ben Roberts-Smith for war crimes including multiple unlawful killings of prisoners and non-combatants. Roberts-Smith, long regarded as one of...
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Oded Hen
| Mar 20, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
What Aggregate Civilian-Combatant Ratios Tell Us, And What They Don’t: A Case Study from the Gaza Conflict Public debate about contemporary armed conflict increasingly relies on aggregate civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios as indicators of legality and moral...
