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 …
How do people protect themselves in violent environments outside of ‘traditional’ war zones? And to what extent does international humanitarian law (IHL), the law of armed conflict, apply in such contexts? In this episode of Beyond Compliance: In Conversation, Katharine and Florian talk to Chiara Redaelli and Anjan Sundaram about Mexico. Together they dive into the …
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More than half the world’s population are living in settings where they are regularly exposed to violence, whether from armed actors, gangs, community defence forces or criminal groups. What do civilian communities do to protect themselves and others in these settings? And what can we learn from them about civilian protection? To look at these …
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Some of our readers may have already realised that the Armed Groups and International Law blog has recently launched a podcast. The podcast is called ‘Beyond Compliance: In Conversation’ and is hosted by Florian Weigand (Co-Director of the Centre on Armed Groups) and me. The title refers to the fact that it is made as …
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Editors’ note: This post forms part of the Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict, featured across Articles of War and Armed Groups and International Law. The introductory post can be found here. The symposium invites reflection on the conceptualisation of negative everyday lived experiences of armed conflict, and legal and extra-legal strategies that can effectively address …
Editors’ note: This post forms part of the Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict, featured across Articles of War and Armed Groups and International Law from September 2024 onwards. The extended symposium invites reflection on the conceptualisation of negative everyday lived experiences of armed conflict, and legal and extra-legal strategies, including compliance and restraint, that …
The ICRC has published a new 2024 Opinion Paper explaining their approach in legally classifying contemporary armed conflicts. It is intended to make the ICRC’s methodology for classification accessible and transparent for all who are interested in the subject. The last time that the ICRC published an Opinion Paper on this matter was 2008. Since …
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On Thursday 18th January, there will be a book panel discussion at Utrecht University on the new edited volume that Ezequiel Heffes and I edited: – ‘Armed Groups and International Law: In the Shadowland of Legality and Illegality’ (Edward Elgar 2023). Through a careful consideration of the status of armed groups within a complex legal …
It is our great pleasure to announce that Florian Weigand, Anki Sjoberg, Saeed Bagheri and Jelena Aparac have joined the editorial board of the Armed Groups and International Law blog from September 2023. Now that the Armed Groups and International Law blog is nearly 11 years old, we are both of the view that it …
In Spring 2023, I taught a short four-session (1 hr 45 mins each) course entitled Armed Groups and International Law in which the assessment type was legal blogging. The course fits into our capita selecta period of teaching on the public international law LLM at Utrecht. During this period, students are able to choose five …