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Samuel White
| Oct 14, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Mission Command Responsibility When Justice Paul Brereton’s report on alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan was released, it sent shockwaves in Australia and internationally. It confronted and confirmed uncomfortable truths: that within Australia’s most elite...
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Tom Gal
| Sep 19, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Revisiting Customary IHL Series
Revisiting Customary IHL Series – A Question of Methodology: Should International Criminal Law Shape IHL? Editors’ note: This post is part of a series relating to the ICRC’s Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of...
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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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Stuart Casey-Maslen
| Jun 20, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
The Prosecution of Terrorism as a War Crime Despite the persistent condemnation of terrorism by States and international organizations, and the frequent prosecution of terrorism as an offence under domestic law, the prosecution of terrorism as a war crime is a...
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Michael N. Schmitt,
Alexander Hernandez
| Jun 4, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Seizure of Private Real Property and Transfer of Civilians into Occupied Territory In May 2025, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that “Russia is inventorying real estate in occupied Ukraine in order to seize property from Ukrainian...
