by Juliette François-Blouin | Dec 7, 2022
Responsible AI Symposium – Legal Implications of Bias Mitigation Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed at an expert workshop conducted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy focusing on Responsible AI. For a general introduction to this...
by Michael N. Schmitt | Oct 26, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Dirty Bombs and International Humanitarian Law On October 23, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made separate calls to the Defense Ministers of France, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In them, Shoigu claimed that...
by Angeline Lewis | Aug 17, 2022
“Weaponizing” Sexual Violence In War – An IHL Problem As the war in Ukraine approaches the six-month mark, reports of sexual violence against women and girls, and also men and boys, mount almost daily. In an extraordinary step, trials of Russian soldiers accused of...
by Hanne Cuyckens | May 16, 2022
Foreign Fighters: The Terrorism/IHL Conundrum and the Need for Cumulative Prosecution The attack launched by ISIS on 20 January 2022 against the Al-Sina’a Prison in Al-Hasakah, an area situated in North-Eastern Syria and currently under the authority of the...
by Ezequiel Heffes | Apr 21, 2022
Non-State Armed Groups’ Perspectives of IHL: The FARC-EP Case Non-State armed groups (NSAGs) are one of the dramatis personae in the current humanitarian landscape. Not only do these entities use armed violence to achieve their military and political goals, they also...