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Alexander Gilder
| Oct 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Legal Position of UN Peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon The United Nations has reported several incidents over recent weeks involving the organization’s peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) maintains numerous positions in its...
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Michael N. Schmitt,
Kevin S. Coble
| Sep 27, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Use of Force
The Evolving Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict – An International Law Perspective – Part I Editors’ Note: This post is the first in a two-part series addressing international legal issues related to the ongoing situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. On 19 September,...
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Alexander Gilder
| Feb 16, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Use of Force
Use of Force and UN Mandates to Protect Civilians The UN’s protection of civilians (PoC) concept remains contested twenty-three years after the first PoC mandate given to the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) in 1999. The PoC component of a UN...
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Alexander Gilder
| Jan 20, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – UN Peacekeepers and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has been under Russian control since March 2022. The international community has repeatedly called for a resolution to a situation that could result in a...
