Armed Conflict
Just Security’s expert authors provide analysis on the legal, policy, and strategic dimensions of armed conflict, including the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas war, counterterrorism operations, conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, and other armed conflicts across the globe, with a focus on international humanitarian law, war crimes and accountability, mitigating and remedying civilian harm, and the humanitarian impacts of warfare.
3,544 Articles
Video: Roads Not Taken – Reflections on the 9/11 Anniversary
Assessing the Work and Impact of U.S. Human Rights Organizations Since the 9/11 Attacks
How the UN General Assembly Can Respond to Atrocity Crimes at Its 76th Session
It has played a significant role in preventing and responding to atrocities in the past - it should take five priority actions now.
Questions to Investigate U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul: An Alleged Killing of 10 Civilians
We drafted dozens of specific questions for Congress, reporters, and investigators to ask.
The Humanity of Michael Ratner, The Fabrications of Samuel Moyn
Joseph Margulies and Baher Azmy write to set the record straight.
Paradigm Shift: The Consequences of Choosing a War Path, and Leaving It
We owe it to the next generation to grapple now with the consequences of remaining at war -- as well as the consequences of choosing not to be -- lest we find ourselves reflexively…
Crossing Back Over: Time to Reform Legal Culture and Legal Practice of the “War on Terror”
As the conflict has grown and changed, responsibility for these changes has too often been thrust on the shoulders of executive lawyers.
Two Decades Later, Still Reckoning With 9/11
On the 20th anniversary, experts disagree on how the most complex problems that dogged the “war on terror” should have been solved.
How to Responsibly End Three Key Rights-Abusing Post-9/11 Policies
Accountability needs to include reckoning with Guantanamo, state-sanctioned U.S. torture, and secretive and unlawful lethal strikes.
Oh, the Humanity
Reviewing Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2021), 416 pp. Samuel Moyn’s new book…
The Forever War on the Homefront
Military families have lived with the direct impact of “forever wars” for 20 years and will continue to do so for a lifetime. War is not something you can take off and hang…
Between Legitimacy and Control: The Taliban’s Pursuit of Governmental Status
Recognition of a government involves calculations of both law and politics. What factors will influence States' response to the Taliban?
Five Principles to End the Forever War
A comprehensive and detailed guide to ending the Forever War and enhancing American security.