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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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Chiara Redaelli,
Carlos Arévalo
| Mar 23, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Targeting
When Cartels Fight Back: El Mencho and the NIAC Question in Mexico On February 22, 2026, Mexican Army Special Forces launched a pre-dawn raid on a gated residential compound in Tapalpa, a mountainous municipality in the Western state of Jalisco. Their target was...
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Su Myat Thwe,
Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| Dec 9, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Anything Other Than a Classic NIAC: Examining Myanmar’s Legal Battlefield Myanmar’s civil unrest is traditionally characterised as a non-international armed conflict (NIAC). It arguably represents one of the most enduring civil wars in modern history. For the past...
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Erica Harper
| Jun 17, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
War Reloaded: The Erosion of Norms and the Urgency of Prevention After decades of cautious optimism about the global decline of warfare, recent trends paint a far more troubling picture. Civilians are increasingly caught in the crossfire, non-State armed groups and...
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Jennifer Maddocks
| Feb 6, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility
The Conflict in Eastern DRC and the State Responsibility of Rwanda and Uganda In late January 2025, a rebel alliance involving the militia group M23 seized control over the town of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
