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.
3,545 Articles
How Can US Global Health Assistance Adapt to Population Aging?
An age-inclusive policy might require a paradigm shift, returning to the promise of primary care to reach the global goal of health for all.
Proportionality in Self-Defense: A Brief Reply
A response to an article published on how military campaigns can never be rendered disproportionate by the total harm inflicted on civilians.
The Problem of Proportionality: A Response to Adil Haque
Whether the magnitude of State responses to terror is ethical and wise goes beyond determinations of legal compliance.
If Mass Atrocity Prevention Has a Future, the Responsibility to Protect Can’t Afford to Be Niche
States and international organizations must make the Responsibility to Protect a priority and integrate it into wider policy and programming.
Is AI the Right Sword for Democracy?
The "AI for Democracy" argument rests on misguided - and potentially dangerous - assumptions.
Why the United Nations Keeps Failing Victims of Atrocity Crimes
Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.
In Gaza, Catastrophic Violence of War and Slow Violence of Oppression Collide
The excesses of atrocity should not distract from the quieter, quotidian violence that started long before the 2023 Israel-Hamas War.
Law and Policy Guide to US Arms Transfers to Israel
A guide to the humanitarian law conditions on U.S. arms sales and security assistance to Israel.
The US Must Adapt Foreign Policy and Aid to an Aging World
In armed conflicts, humanitarian crises, and climate-induced disasters, older people often suffer disproportionately. First in a series.
Enough: Self-Defense and Proportionality in the Israel-Hamas Conflict
The right of self-defense does not permit a disproportionate loss of civilian life, writes Professor Adil Haque in this essay on what U.N. Member States can say.
Stolen Childhoods: The Emerging Generational Crisis in Sudan’s War
Death, displacement, and hunger demands action to overcome physical and logistical roadblocks to humanitarian aid.
From Darfur to Darfur: The Fall and Rise of Indifference to Mass Atrocities in Africa
This arc reveals both the African Union’s strengths and weaknesses in stopping atrocity crimes, and what it might yet accomplish.