About the author(s):
Katharine Fortin is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches IHL and IHRL. Before joining Utrecht University, she worked at the ICTY, ICC and Norton Rose Fulbright. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Lieber Prize. She has written widely about the framework of law that applies to armed groups in non-international armed conflicts and is one of the editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog.
In the coming week, we will be launching a new category of posts on the blog called ‘Armed Groups in Context’. These will be largely non-legal posts written by scholars from the political and social sciences, conflict analysts or humanitarian practitioners reviewing particular armed groups, conflicts or regional contexts. The idea is that the posts in this series will help inform both legal and non-legal readers who are following our blog to stay abreast of recent developments in different parts of the world. Our first post in this series will be on Yemen. Watch this space!
We welcome the submission of posts to this series. If you are interested, please check out our submission guidelines and submit it via the usual procedure.