Use of Force

A UN Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, US airstrikes in Syria and Article 51 implications, ICJ elections, and more.

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

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

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.

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.

"Conversations of this nature are useless if their participants fail to acknowledge their differences of opinion about underlying assumptions."

International law is critical to survival in Israel and Palestine.

Будь-які форми територіальних поступок за нинішніх умов були б юридично недійсними та суперечили…

Any form of territorial concessions in the present environment would be legally void and contrary to duties imposed on states.

The executive branch, through noncompliance and defiance, has delayed providing Congress with sufficient information on the war on terror.