Blog Symposium

First, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Gloria Gaggioli, Chiara Redaelli, Jelena Pejic, Katharine Fortin, René Provost, and Martha Bradley for taking the time to read the book and engage with its arguments. I also want to express my sincere thanks to the editorial teams at both Articles of War and Armed Groups and International Law for organising and facilitating this symposium, it’s been …

Book Symposium “Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict”: Conclusion Read More »

The Tadic formulation for the existence of a non-international armed conflict is two-fold. First, the notion of organisation, which requires the military wing of a non-state actor, which is party to a conflict, to meet the demand to display a minimum degree of organisation. Second, the notion of intensity, which asserts that the severity of the fighting between parties to the conflict must equate to protracted armed violence. Both …

Book Symposium “Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict”: When NIACs end: Support for Derejko’s functional approach  Read More »

The joint blog symposium on Nathan Derejko’s book is continuing today over on Articles of War blog, with a post by René Provost with the title IDENTIFYING NIAC SERIES – THE GEOGRAPHY OF WAR AND THE NATURE OF IHL. Please click here to read it!’

Nathan Derejko’s new book ‘Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict: International Law and Practice’ (CUP, 2026) brings a strong new voice to  legal debates relating to the NIAC framework, notably the nature of the Parties, the threshold required for IHL to apply to a specific situation and related discussions on the ‘aggregation’ of armed violence and the geographical and …

Book Symposium “Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict”: The IHL Dramatis Personae: Black & White or Shades of Grey?  Read More »

The joint blog symposium on Nathan Derejko’s book is continuing today over on Articles of War blog, with a post by Jelena Pejic with the title IDENTIFYING NIAC SERIES – CLASSIFYING BATTLEFIELD ACTORS IN NIAC: ANOTHER VIEW ON AN OLD CONUNDRUM. Please click here to read it!’

The joint blog symposium on Nathan Derejko’s book is continuing today over on Articles of War blog, with a post by Chiara Redaelli with the title AGGREGATING CRIMINAL VIOLENCE: CHALLENGES TO NIAC-CLASSIFICATION. Please click here to read it!’