JConflictSecurityLaw

A peer-reviewed journal for academics, government officials, lawyers & individuals interested in arms control law, armed conflict law & collective security law.

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What is the contemporary value of unfriendly acts and retorsion? Why are their utility and relevance to States increasing? Read Neil McDonald and Anna McLeod's article in our Summer Issue here: https://t.co/QbJP8jYWPd

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Can a state be found as violating the right to life of wounded civilians as a result of their uncertainty whether or not they will remain alive? Read Solon Solomon's article on the psychological impact of military operations in our Summer Issue here: https://t.co/AIU0gKpQoC

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Should the notions of 'direct participation in hostilities' and 'continuous combat function' be applied differently to children and adults taking part in non-international armed conflict? Read Fikire Tinsae Birhane's article in our Summer Issue here: https://t.co/Aa5bicD2Fg

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How do we know when a Non-International Armed Conflict is over? What does International Humanitarian Law say about its temporal scope of application during NIAC? Read @NathanDerejko's article in our Summer Issue here: https://t.co/oDFz5kUHc2

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Could Iran legally withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons due to sanctions, targeted attacks and broader hostilities with the United States? Read @cpevans95 article in our Summer Issue here: https://t.co/JOQbArAH41

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How do peacetime law and the law of armed conflict interact? See Dieter Flecks’s article on their interplay in post-conflict peacebuilding in our Summer Issue here: https://t.co/8G5Td7d2vN

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Do the 'Safe Schools Declaration' and the 'Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict' reflect IHL or go beyond existing obligations? Read Marten Zwanenburg's article in our Summer Issue here: https://t.co/3YFJasZgKP

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Is there a right to sustainable security of persons in times of terrorism? Read @chpaulussen's article evaluating deprivation of nationality as well as the non-repatriation and possible prosecution of foreign fighters and their families in our Spring Issue https://t.co/FE5ZKDD4yF

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What are the limits of judicial settlement of nuclear-weapon disputes? Read James D. Fry and Saroj Nair's article analysing the ICJ cases brought by the Marshall Islands against India, Pakistan and the UK in our Spring Issue here: https://t.co/UUTBIejWeO

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How much credit can the ICC claim for Colombia's negotiated peace and reforms? Marco Bocchese interviewed political elites and transitional justice experts in Bogotá to explore how ICC-State relations develop over time. Read his article in our Spring Issue https://t.co/4Nv13CtSin

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What is the legal nature of peace agreements? What is the role of the law in enforcing them? @CSophiaMueller addresses these questions on the basis of a case study on Colombia's peace agreement with the FARC. Read the full article in our Spring Issue here: https://t.co/s08d6jd3fM

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How to ascertain the level of organisation of an armed group when the legal character of an armed conflict changes:
- from NIAC to IAC
- from IAC to NIAC
- from NIAC to a law enforcement model

Read Yutaka Arai-Takahashi's article in our Spring Issue here: https://t.co/MdKaWTRmBP

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What rules of attribution alternative to effective control may apply when non-state actors are not in a principal-agent relationship with a state and have an independent approach in an armed conflict? Read Bulbul Khaitan's article in our Spring Issue here: https://t.co/mR5ApWBznw

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Is the UNGA's secondary responsibility for international peace and security grounded in ‘established practice’ or ‘subsequent practice’ within the meaning of the VCLT, or in customary international law? Read @becjbarber's article in our Sping Issue here: https://t.co/XIKe5wbxVe

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The tributes to Professor Rob Cryer by his fellow @j_csl co-editors Professor Nigel D White and Professor Eric Myjer, and the editorial celebrating the 25 years of the Journal drafted by Professor Cryer are now available in our 2021 Spring Issue: https://t.co/7lmUs25ROh

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What legal obligations arise when persons, or their remains, are believed to be in the hands of a belligerent party? Read Alon Margalit's article on security detainees, the missing and the dead in the Israeli-Hamas conflict featured in our Winter Issue: https://t.co/laqbhc6m2n

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Should human shields be considered persons directly participating in hostilities? Does the voluntary or involuntary nature of shielding result in a change of status under IHL? Read Bence Kis Kelemen's article in our Winter Issue here: https://t.co/Y2nhe6OAjN

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Read this fitting tribute to Rob's commitment and scholarship in our Winter Issue here: https://t.co/zGNgEHl8bq

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In an article finished and accepted just before he succumbed to illness, Robert Cryer and his co-author Natalia Perova reconcile the conundrum of some peacekeepers being national perpetrators of crimes as well as internationalist protectors.

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What are the theoretical and practical issues around the interpretation of 'protracted armed violence' in IHL and of the 'protracted armed conflict' criterion in the Rome Statute? Read @MHrnjaz and Janja Simentić Popović's article in our Winter Issue here: https://t.co/omqzzPAhua