Armed Groups and International Law

Promoting information sharing and community building between individuals and organisations working on issues related to armed groups and international law. Providing updates on news stories and publicize academic journal articles and seminars, talks and conferences on issues related to armed groups.

Armed groups and international law: assistant editor

Are you interested in staying abreast of current developments in armed conflicts around the world involving armed groups? Are you eager to understand the different ways in which international law applies to armed conflicts? Are you passionate about  (i) ‘information sharing’ and (ii) ‘community building’ between individuals and organisations working on issues related to armed …

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Call for Papers: Lights and Shadows of the Ongwen Case at the ICC

‘The research project team ‘Negotiating international criminal law’, Department of Language and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Jyväskylä (Finland) invites abstract submissions for the online seminar ‘Lights and Shadows in the Ongwen Case at the International Criminal Court: Inter- and Multi-disciplinary approaches’ to be held on the 13th and 14th October 2022.  Authors (individually or jointly) …

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Blog symposium: The Role of Non-State Armed Groups in Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic

Individuals living in conflict-affected zones have been particularly vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 during the last few years. This has been mainly due to their lack of access to appropriate facilities, testing kits and vaccines, often combined with unstable and violent scenarios. Understandably, as a result of the predominant State-centric architecture of the international …

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