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Marina Sharpe
| Jun 5, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Humanitarian Assistance in International Law and the Distinction Between Preventive Assistance and Emergency Relief in Armed Conflict Editors’ note: This post highlights work from the author’s forthcoming book, Humanitarian Assistance in International Law, published...
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Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| Aug 1, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Prosecuting the Starvation War Crime in Germany: The Yarmouk Case On 6 June 2024, the Investigative Judge at the Federal Court of Justice issued arrest warrants for five individuals apprehended in Germany. The suspects, taken into custody a month later, allegedly...
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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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Julia Grignon
| Apr 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues
Lieber Studies Series – Why the Term “Humanitarian Corridor” is a Misleading Expression Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues (Jelena Pejic & Margaret Kotlik eds. 2025), the eleventh...
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Inbar Shamay,
Tal Mimran
| Mar 5, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Other Bodies of Law
The New Syria and Its Obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention On December 8, 2024, after weeks of hostilities, rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured the capital city of Damascus and took control over the Syrian State. This historic...
