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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.

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Razor wire tops the fence of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay on October 23, 2016 at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

18 Years After 9/11, Why Is Guantánamo Still Open?

That a child born on that day the planes hit would by now have gained the right to vote, but there has yet to be a trial of the alleged attackers, serves to highlight how painfully…
Oct. 9, 2019
Sara al-Abdullah, a volunteer caring for 24 orphaned children reportedly linked with foreign fighters of the Islamic State (IS) group, carries one of them at a camp in the northern Syrian village of Ain Issa, on September 26, 2019.

Returning Foreign Fighters and Their Families Takes on New Urgency After Trump’s Syria Decision

As countries contemplate what appears to be the potential for an abrupt and unruly dismantling of the SDF camps in Syria, and the likely security, ethical and moral dilemmas that…
Oct. 8, 2019
A Sudanese demonstrator waves his hands as he stands on the hood of a security forces' vehicle, urging others not to cross the security barrier, during a protest near the presidential palace in Sudan's capital Khartoum on September 12, 2019, calling for the appointment of a new permanent chief of judiciary and prosecutor general.

Bringing the Rule of Law to Sudan

The country's new civilian ministers of justice and foreign affairs outlined their plans at the United Nations and appealed for international support before the window of opportunity…
Oct. 1, 2019
Binary code lit up in blue lights

An Overview of International Humanitarian Law in France’s New Cyber Document

France's positions explained - with translations of key text - on important issues like the meaning of "attack" and the application of the principles of distinction and proportionality…
Sep. 27, 2019
US soldiers aim their guns during a ceremony on the outskirts of Kabul on March 15, 2012.

Do Moral Judgments of War Support the Principle of Combatant Equality?: What Empirical Studies Tells Us

Are our moral intuitions about war in line with the crucial principle of combatant equality in the law of armed conflict? A moral psychology study begins mapping out and explaining…
Sep. 24, 2019 and
A Saudi female journalist films damage at a market for vehicles on August 27, 2016 in the Saudi border city of Najran, a week after it was struck by a rocket fired from Yemen.

The Yemen Project: Open Source Investigations and the Law of War

An unprecedented open source investigation aids the legal analysis of allegedly unlawful strikes by the Saudi-led coalition, but also has limits in reaching legal conclusions under…
Sep. 23, 2019
A Security Council vote at the United Nations, 12 September, 2003.

National Security at the United Nations This Week

Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…
Sep. 20, 2019
Map of the Middle East with Saudi Arabia in focus with bullets draped across

Yemen Group of Experts’ Report Highlights Need to Halt Arms Sales

The UN Group of Experts’ report on Yemen shows that the U.S (and its allies) have helped create a humanitarian disaster in Yemen and have a duty to help end it, starting by immediately…
Sep. 20, 2019 and
Saudi defence ministry spokesman Colonel Turki bin Saleh al-Malki speaks during a press conference in Riyadh on September 18, 2019, following the weekend attacks on Saudi Aramco's facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais.

Saudi Oil Attacks Raise Questions About Nature of Yemen Conflict and Legitimate Military Targets

Do the attacks against Saudi oil facilities change the current classification of the conflict in Yemen? Are oil facilities targetable under IHL?
Sep. 19, 2019 and
Soldier sitting on the sofa during psychological therapy

Guidelines on Investigating Violations of International Humanitarian Law

New Guidelines from the ICRC and Geneva Academy on when and how armed forces must investigate possible law of war violations.
Sep. 16, 2019 , and 1 more
Yemeni graffiti artists paint tally marks on a damaged building that was hit by a previous air strike, during a campaign called 'Shrapnel' in the capital Sanaa on June 23, 2018.

The UN Report and Indiscriminate Attacks in Yemen

The UN Group makes a number of important legal findings, a leading international humanitarian law expert discusses.
Sep. 13, 2019
Yemeni fighters loyal to the country's exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi ride a tank past a destroyed building during clashes with Shiite Huthi rebels in the country's third-city of Taez on May 30, 2019.

The UN Yemen Report and Siege Warfare

Following the UN Human Rights Council report on Yemen, experts provide detailed analysis of how international humanitarian law rules on starvation, proportionality, and precautions…
Sep. 12, 2019 , and 1 more
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