Debate on a Digital Emblem: The Specific Protection of Healthcare Facilities

Debate on a Digital Emblem: The Specific Protection of Healthcare Facilities

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)...
A Digital Red Cross: What Would It Defend Against?

A Digital Red Cross: What Would It Defend Against?

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...
A New Political Declaration on Civilian Harm: Progress or Mythical Panacea?

A New Political Declaration on Civilian Harm: Progress or Mythical Panacea?

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...
Interpretation in the Updated GCIII Commentary

Interpretation in the Updated GCIII Commentary

Interpretation in the Updated GCIII Commentary The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Updated Commentary to the Third Geneva Convention is a remarkable feat of scholarship worthy of serious academic attention. It leaves almost no interpretive stone...