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M. Rodwan Abouharb,
Sean Watts
| May 17, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Infant Mortality and the Law of War: Accounting for War’s Impact on the Most Vulnerable The war in Ukraine is now well over a year old. The conflict painfully reminds us of the brutal human toll war exacts on civilians. Estimates of the numbers of civilians killed and...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| May 1, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict
The Expert Panel’s Review of Amnesty International’s Allegations of Ukrainian IHL Violations Last week, the New York Times reported that Amnesty International (AI) “sat for months on a report critical of the group after it accused Ukrainian forces of illegally...
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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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Dan E. Stigall,
Anna Williams
| Aug 25, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict
An Improved Approach to Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response: The Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP) The imperative to mitigate civilian harm during armed conflict is rooted in important humanitarian, moral, and legal bases. It is also...
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Jelena Pejic
| Mar 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
The Other Side of Civilian Protection: The 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention The initial stage of an international armed conflict, such as the one in Ukraine, inevitably focuses international attention on the conduct of hostilities. This is to be expected, given the...
