Preparedness in urban operations: a commander’s planning checklist to protect civilians
Implementing international humanitarian law’s (IHL) precautionary measures for both defending and attacking forces is a challenge in urban conflict. Urban battles pose heightened risk to civilians and...
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Where are they? Three things the families of missing persons teach us about war and peace
Protecting family links and helping to prevent and, whenever possible, resolve cases of missing persons requires action during armed conflict and other situations of violence but also in peacetime and...
20 Touko 202115min
In good faith: legal advice during aerial targeting in urban areas
Military legal advisers today play a key role during various military operations, including aerial targeting in urban areas, and State militaries will likely increasingly rely on them as warfare becom...
20 Touko 202117min
War and the city: a history
As long as there have been cities, wars have been staged within them. While the term ‘urban warfare’ conjures more recent images of hollowed buildings and human suffering from Mosul and Mekelle, its h...
20 Touko 20217min
Urban warfare: an age-old problem in need of new solutions
Urban warfare is not a new phenomenon; cities have featured as a stage for violence since humans began building them, and images in recent years – from Aleppo, Mosul, and Sana’a to Marawi, Mogadishu, ...
20 Touko 202122min
A common enemy: aggregating intensity in non-international armed conflicts
Contemporary non-international armed conflicts are increasingly fought by a myriad of non-State actors, often engaging in hostilities against a common enemy and at times operating under the same coali...
20 Touko 202118min
A humanitarian duty to integrity
The digital transformation of humanitarian operations raises (at least) two existential issues: one, how do humanitarians preserve what is unique about their work amidst growing dependence on uncontro...
20 Touko 20217min
The ‘fog of war’ . . . and information
Misinformation, disinformation and hate speech (MDH) has become a ubiquitous feature of the ‘information’ or ‘digital’ age. In conflict settings, so-called ‘fake news’ can lead to death, injury, impr...
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