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Ezequiel Heffes
| Apr 17, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Detention, Human Rights, Law of Armed Conflict
Rebellious Detention: Reflections on the ICRC Study on Detention by Non-State Armed Groups Editor’s note: We are delighted to publish this post on the subject of armed groups by Dr. Ezequiel Heffes. In addition to being a valued contributor to Articles of War,...
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Ronald Alcala
| Mar 22, 2023
Large-scale combat operations (LSCOs) involve widespread, devastating violence, usually on a vast scale, creating significant, competing demands on increasingly strained state resources. LSCOs impact significantly on civilian populations, armed forces, humanitarian...
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Adriano Iaria
| Feb 17, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Debate on a Digital Emblem: The Specific Protection of Healthcare Facilities Recently, debate ramped up around the idea of a digital emblem to signal the legal protection of medical facilities in the cyber domain. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...
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Christian Ohanian
| Feb 2, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Emerging Technologies, Law of Armed Conflict
A Digital Red Cross: What Would It Defend Against? On November 18, 1991, after enduring a three-month artillery assault, the city of Vukovar in Croatia fell to what was then known as the federal Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitary forces. After JNA...
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Michael W. Meier
| Jul 20, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Weapons Law
A New Political Declaration on Civilian Harm: Progress or Mythical Panacea? On June 17, against a backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that has now killed or wounded over 11,000 civilians in a little more than four months, a group of States, the International...
