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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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3,331 Articles

New Approach After Charlottesville Violence Protects Public Safety While Preserving Rights

When right-wing nationalists try to weaponize the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, states can use their own constitutional and statutory provisions to prohibit private…
Jan. 2, 2019

U.S. Air Strike Data from Afghanistan Takes Step Back in Transparency

The U.S. military has stopped publishing important information on its air war in Afghanistan, just two months after deciding to release it. In October, the U.S. began publishing…
Dec. 20, 2018 and

The “ISIS Beatles” and “Non-Territorial” Application of the European Convention of Human Rights

The “ISIS Beatles” litigation in UK courts raises important issues about the geographic reach and content of human rights obligations, in particular those in the European Convention…
Dec. 17, 2018

The Senate Strikes Back: Checking Trump’s Foreign Policy

Though the Senate vote on cessation of military assistance for the Saudi War in Yemen will have no practical effect – the House of Representatives will not take up the matter…
Dec. 14, 2018 and

UN Review Should Help Children Caught in ISIS Conflict

The U.N. Security Council should use Thursday’s Counter-Terrorism Committee meeting to begin swiftly amending the 2015 Madrid Guiding Principles to spell out member countries’…
Dec. 12, 2018

George H.W. Bush’s Persian Gulf War: Victory, With Tragedy

Most tributes on the passing of George H.W. Bush from across the American political spectrum have used some variation of the word “honorable” or “decent” to describe the…
Dec. 7, 2018

Full Accounting Needed of US-UAE Counterterrorism Partnership in Yemen

Congress needs to scrutinize the specific legal and moral compromises we have made by going all in with the UAE in exchange for progress against terrorist groups in Yemen.
Dec. 7, 2018

U.S. Lethal Operations in Somalia Are On the Rise. But Are They Effective?

A deep-rooted ideology cannot be defeated with bombs dropped from the sky. What is needed is a real shift in strategy.
Dec. 6, 2018

How the “Arms Sales Oversight Act” Could Prevent American Arms from Contributing to the Next Overseas Crisis

The debate over U.S. complicity in Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe is coming to a head in the Senate, with a series of votes on the Sanders-Lee-Murphy war powers resolution.…
Dec. 5, 2018 and

Uptick in U.S. Air Strikes on Buildings in Afghanistan Raises Questions

U.S. military aircraft bombed over 60 buildings in Afghanistan in October alone, reviving longstanding concerns that these kinds of strikes could risk higher numbers of civilian…
Nov. 30, 2018 and

How the Senate Should Move Forward on Resolution to Withdraw from Yemen War

The Senate Resolution on Saudi Arabia and US support for the Yemen war is a most welcome development, but it has flaws that need fixing to avoid unintended consequences -- and…
Nov. 30, 2018 and

The Votes Are There for a Congressional Reckoning on Yemen

Democratic control of the House opens the door to real action and accountability for U.S. policy in Yemen next year.
Nov. 21, 2018
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