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Beyond Compliance Symposium: Widening the legal lens from within IHL and beyond: “Special or ad hoc agreements” as an expandable resource for restraint

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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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Accountability for Wagner Group crimes in Mali: exploring domestic prosecutions and Mali’s state responsibility

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This post forms part of the Wagner Symposium hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law blog. The introductory post can be found here. The symposium seeks to foster deeper discussion on how best to address the Wagner Group and its affiliated entities. From their deployment to Mali in late 2021 until their official replacement by …

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Children in Bar Kawach, Barlonyo, northern Uganda, where Trócaire's livelihood programme is helping farmers rebuild their lives after years of conflict in the region.

Beyond Compliance Symposium: Recommitting to Compliance and Restraint to Reverse the Unprecedented Trends of Harm and Need Experienced by Children in Armed Conflict

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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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AGIL Podcast – Episode 11: Civilian Self-Protection and Land

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How does a community’s relationship with the land they live on feed into their experiences of harm? What solutions do they find to protect themselves? In this episode of Beyond Compliance: In Conversation, Katharine and Florian talk to Dr Piergiuseppe (Pier) Parisi and Dr Marwan Darweish about their research on the different ways in which civilian …

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Transnational Atrocity-by-Proxy: The Case for a Human Rights Council Inquiry into the Wagner Group

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This post forms part of the Wagner Symposium hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law blog. The introductory post can be found here. The symposium seeks to foster deeper discussion on how best to address the Wagner Group and its affiliated entities. Introduction Though ascribed by an array of names, the “Wagner Group” has been …

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The Wagner Group and Security Sector Reform: Challenges With Prolonged Entrenchment

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This post forms part of the Wagner Symposium hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law blog. The introductory post can be found here. The symposium seeks to foster deeper discussion on how best to address the Wagner Group and its affiliated entities. Security sector reform (SSR) is a highly complex and difficult process that aims …

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The Wagner Group and UN sanctions: inconsistent reporting?

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This post forms part of the Wagner Symposium hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law blog. The introductory post can be found here. The symposium seeks to foster deeper discussion on how best to address the Wagner Group and its affiliated entities. To maintain and restore international peace and security, the United Nations Security Council …

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Beyond Compliance Symposium: What is needed to reduce the risk of violence faced by communities during armed conflict

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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 …

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From Wagner to Africa Corps: ambiguity of the legal status

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This post forms part of the Wagner Symposium hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law blog. The introductory post can be found here. The symposium seeks to foster deeper discussion on how best to address the Wagner Group and its affiliated entities. For nearly a decade, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group evolved from a small private …

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Revisiting Plausible Deniability: Putin’s Admission and the Wagner Group Paradox

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This post forms part of the Wagner Symposium hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law blog. The introductory post can be found here. The symposium seeks to foster deeper discussion on how best to address the Wagner Group and its affiliated entities. On June 27, 2023, three days after the abrupt end of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s …

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