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Michael N. Schmitt
| Mar 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Land Mines: An Explainer Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has ignited discussions within and between NATO States concerning the international conventions that ban the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster...
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Sean Watts
| Mar 27, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law, Weapons Law
Assessing the Ottawa Anti-Personnel Mine Convention Withdrawals As security along their borders has deteriorated, Eastern European, Baltic, and Nordic States have scrambled to update and adapt their national defense strategies. Nearly all these States have publicly...
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William H. Boothby
| Dec 6, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
Finland, Territorial Security, and Anti-personnel Mines This post outlines select international weapons law obligations of Finland relating to anti-personnel mines against the backdrop of its evolving national security situation. It identifies an array of legal,...
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Dario Pronesti,
Jeroen van den Boogaard
| Mar 20, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
Ukraine Symposium – Landmines and the War in Ukraine Human Rights Watch has documented the use of both anti-vehicle and anti-personnel landmines in Ukraine. Following reports that Ukraine is using anti-personnel landmines (APLs) in violation of the Ottawa Convention,...
