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.

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Who is Responsible for the Yemen Funeral Bombing, and How?

The aftermath of a bombing by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. Photo: Almigdad Mojalli/IRIN The Saudi-led coalition has acknowledged, after initially denying, that it carried…

How We Read a NYT Story on UN Responsibility for Peacekeepers’ Misconduct

A new Haitian cholera vaccination program. Image by UN/MINUSTAH/Logan Abassi In this post, we’re trying something attempted once before at Just Security. Below, we present an…
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Untangling the Web of Actors in Syria and Additional Complexities of Classifying Armed Conflicts

As the international community struggles to find solutions to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, several recent posts at Just Security and elsewhere have offered interpretations…
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Shots Fired: A Reply to Gill and Watkin

Thanks to Terry Gill and Ken Watkin for their replies to my earlier post. To recall, the ICRC takes the view that the use of armed force by one State on the territory of another,…
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Letter to the Editor: The Best Way to Protect Hospitals in Wartime—Enforce Existing Law

No warfighter should attack a facility that houses the infirm and those who care for them.  Likewise, no able-bodied warfighter should seek protection in a medical facility, and…
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Letter to the Editor: “Lines in the Sand”—A Reply to Professor Haque

I have noted with interest Professor Adil Haque’s critique of my posts (here and here) concerning the classification of armed conflicts involving non-consensual cross border…
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Human Shields in Mosul

Daesh’s inhumanity seems to know no bounds.  For its latest depravity, the group has forcibly expelled hundreds of civilians from nearby villages and forced them to serve as…
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Letter to the Editor: Bombing Hospitals: Why Bad Actors—Not the Laws of War—Are to Blame

In “Military Attacks on ‘Hospital Shield: The Law Itself is Partly to Blame,” the authors address the dangers of analogizing between human shields and hospitals,…

If US and UK Have Joined the Fighting in Yemen, What’s Their Duty to Investigate Alleged Saudi War Crimes?

Air strike in Sana’a, May 2015. Image by Ibrahem Qasim – Wikimedia  If the United States and United Kingdom (have) become not just supporters of the Saudi-led coalition…

Military Attacks on “Hospitals Shields”: The Law Itself is Partly to Blame

The MSF Trauma Center in Kunduz, Afghanistan, following the US airstrike on the facility in October 2015. Image by Andrew Quilty.  From the war in Afghanistan and the US-backed…
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UK Government’s Response on Drone Strikes Policy Leaves British Parliament Wanting More

A heads-up to Just Security readers: The UK government has responded to the British Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) report on the use of drones for targeted…
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International Armed Conflict in Syria and the (Lack of) Official Immunity for War Crimes

Last week, I wrote two posts at Just Security (here and here) on one of the legal consequences that would follow if the situation in Syria is an “international armed conflict”…
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