Overcoming the disconnect: environmental protection and armed conflicts
Environmental effects of armed conflicts do not only result from the conduct of hostilities but also from toxic or hazardous remnants of war, excessive exploitation of conflict resources, unsustainabl...
27 Maj 202111min
Fighting without a Planet B: how IHL protects the natural environment in armed conflict
Armed conflicts from Kuwait to Vietnam continue to remind us that the environment can be deeply scarred by war, a reality that climate risks now magnify for many dependent communities. But while a cer...
25 Maj 202121min
Standing together: the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations
Today’s climate and environmental crises threaten the very survival of humanity. The Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations, the result of a collective effort across a wide ran...
21 Maj 20217min
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...
20 Maj 202116min
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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 202122min
