Prisoners of war in contemporary armed conflict: Interpreting GClll 70+ years after its negotiation
Too often the term “prisoner of war” (PoW) conjures up black-and-white images of soldiers detained in the Second World War. Recent events have brought PoWs back into the fore of the public consciousne...
11 Aug 202223min
IHL and occupied territory
As the armed conflict in Ukraine persists, rapidly unfolding events have entailed grave implications for civilians trapped in the crisis, such as death, injury and displacement from their homes and no...
26 Jul 202217min
Silenced guns do not mend lives: what does the law say about human suffering at the end of conflict?
Silenced guns do not mend the lives of those who have survived the violence. Declarations of victory and the laying down of arms do not by themselves restore electricity and clean water; nor do they ...
21 Jul 202213min
IHL in the aftermath of battles and conflicts: what do we want to achieve?
We have all seen the despair, dismay, and disaster of war. But what happens when the armed conflict appears to be over? It may be a time for peace, but there will often be pockets of hostilities, rogu...
14 Jul 20226min
Why militaries need a theory of gender's operational relevance
The uptake of gender considerations into military missions across the world has largely been uneven and incremental. This is likely due in part to the lack of an overarching theory of how gender is re...
7 Jul 202212min
Gendered impacts of armed conflict and implications for the application of IHL
Gender shapes an individual’s experience of armed conflict in complex ways, but trends can be predictable. In particular, women and girls contend with structural gender inequality, including in confli...
30 Jun 202217min
Shielding prisoners of war from public curiosity
Recent media reports on prisoners of war (POWs) and deceased combatants have raised questions among journalists and the general public about how the Geneva Conventions regulate images and information ...
28 Jun 202211min
On trial: the Third Geneva Convention and judicial guarantees for prisoners of war
The first prisoners of war (POWs) in the international armed conflict in Ukraine have been prosecuted and sentenced. These trials will herald hundreds, if not thousands more, as the sides to the confl...
23 Jun 202216min
