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A response to an article published on how military campaigns can never be rendered disproportionate by the total harm inflicted on civilians.

Top experts reflect on what the Biden administration's new executive order means for the future of AI and efforts to regulate it.

Whether the magnitude of State responses to terror is ethical and wise goes beyond determinations of legal compliance.

Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.

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.

This arc reveals both the African Union’s strengths and weaknesses in stopping atrocity crimes, and what it might yet accomplish.

The failure of past counterterrorism policies and practice has led to unending cycles of violence.

Reinvigorating the atrocity prevention agenda requires focusing on accountability.

Introducing a collaboration with the Programme on International Peace and Security at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

The U.N. General Assembly's upcoming emergency special session is a critical time to address the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Robust accountability mechanisms must allow Haitians to seek justice for abuses linked to the new force as it operates outside UN systems.

Israeli leaders must abide by the rules of international law that guide armed conflict and provide water access to civilians in Gaza.