Blog Symposium

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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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The Case for Listing the Wagner Group for Violations against Children in CAR, Mali, and Ukraine

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. Since it first emerged in Ukraine in 2014, the Wagner Group has been …

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Wagner Group and environmental destruction – avenues for accountability

Source: https://www.peace-justice.org/war-and-ecocide/ 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. The environment has been described as the ‘silent casualty’ of armed …

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