Samantha Holmes

Samantha Holmes is a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) and York Law School. She is also a member of the Beyond Compliance Consortium’s research programme “Building Evidence on Promoting Restraint by Armed Actors”. Her ongoing research explores the impacts of war on mental wellbeing and the vulnerabilities of children in war. She has also collaborated with Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict to research grave violations against children. Samantha holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice from the University of York, and an LLB from Queen Mary University of London.

Beyond Compliance Symposium: Older Persons and Armed Conflict – Rethinking Civilian Harm and Humanitarian Need

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This post forms part of phase two of the Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict, hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law blog. 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 …

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Beyond Compliance Symposium: Between Aftershocks & Airstrikes in Myanmar – Accounts of Compounding Harm + Need 

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This post forms part of phase two of the Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict, hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law blog. 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 …

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Beyond Compliance Symposium: The UN Children and Armed Conflict agenda as an accountability mechanism

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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 harm …

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Beyond Compliance Symposium: War is not skin deep – International Humanitarian Law and mental health

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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 …

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