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Erika de Wet
| Feb 22, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Regulating Military Force Series, Use of Force
Regulating Military Force Series – A Future for the UN System of Collective Security? Editors’ note: This post is a condensed version of the author’s keynote address at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion, Destruction,...
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Ori Pomson
| Dec 12, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility, Targeting
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – Damage to UN Premises in Armed Conflict: IHL and Beyond Does a party to an armed conflict necessarily violate international law if it causes damage to United Nations (UN) premises? Certainly, the UN Secretariat considers that any...
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Tom Buitelaar,
Welmoet Wels
| Dec 11, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Other Bodies of Law, Policy
Pessimism Does Not Help Fragile States “An uncomfortable reality” is the title and conclusion of a recently published report that evaluates Dutch national participation in international peace and security missions. The report highlights the successes of the Dutch...
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Rob McLaughlin
| Nov 17, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – After the Conflict: A UN Transitional Administration in Gaza? Recent reporting around potential international involvement in the management of post-conflict Gaza has focussed on the idea of a multinational—perhaps a UN—peacekeeping...
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Martha M. Bradley
| Aug 9, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Mass Grave in Sudan: Revisiting the Rules on the Treatment and Disposal of the Dead On July 13, 2023, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, reported that eighty-seven bodies were discovered in a mass grave in the west of the Darfur region in Sudan....
