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Laura A. Dickinson
| Jun 20, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, US-ICC Symposium
U.S.-ICC Symposium – U.S. Cooperation with the ICC to Investigate and Prosecute Atrocities in Ukraine: Possibilities and Challenges (Editor’s note: This article provides an overview of a joint symposium hosted by Just Security and Articles of War. The symposium...
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Michael N. Schmitt,
John C. Tramazzo
| Apr 26, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
The Wagner Group’s “No Quarter” Order and International Law On April 23, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, instructed members of his paramilitary force to “kill everyone on the battlefield.” In a post to a Wagner-affiliated Telegram account, he...
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Gabriella Blum
| Apr 5, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Shadow of Success: How International Criminal Law Has Come to Shape the Battlefield The rise of international criminal law (ICL) and its expansion in the past few decades has been celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of modern international law,...
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Dan Maurer
| Aug 31, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Talking About “War Crimes” In May 2022, just a few months after Russia began its war on Ukraine, Ukrainian civilian prosecutors secured convictions against three captured Russian soldiers. The first, a young sergeant convicted of following an order to kill an unarmed...
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Douglas Guilfoyle
| Jul 21, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Rules of Engagement
Alleged UK War Crimes in Afghanistan The Alleged Crimes and the Australian Parallels An investigation by the BBC television news program Panorama has reported that U.K. “SAS operatives in Afghanistan repeatedly killed detainees and unarmed men.” Intentionally killing...
