Book symposium

I am truly grateful to the contributors to this symposium for taking the time to engage with my book on Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups under International Law. It was a real pleasure reading their insightful comments and thoughts on the research. The different contributions offer interesting reflections on related or broader issues surrounding the topic …

Book Symposium “Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups: From Conflict to Repair in Colombia and Beyond”: Response Read More »

This book is an outstanding addition to the field of scholarship on armed groups and international law. It addresses whether and how non-state armed groups (NSAG) might be required to provide reparation for the damages, or harms, caused by their violations of international law committed during situations of non-international armed conflict (NIAC). Herman addresses this …

Book Symposium “Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups”: A Journey from Theory to Operationalisation Read More »

For decades, Colombia has faced an ongoing series of armed conflicts involving a diverse range of non-official armed actors. The legal and public policy landscape of the Colombian state has had to adapt, incorporating a variety of terms to describe these groups—including guerrillas, self-defense militias, paramilitary organizations, non-state armed groups, terrorist entities, organized criminal groups, …

Book Symposium “Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups”: Operationalising the Duty of NSAG to Provide Reparations: Reflections from Colombia Read More »

The question of whether non-state armed groups (NSAGs) could be held internationally responsible has been a recurrent theme of discussion during the last decades (see here, here and here), although it still remains contested. In her book Reparation by Non-State Armed Groups under International Law, Olivia Herman brightly addresses this and other relevant topics in relation to the provision of reparation …

Book Symposium “Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups”: A Sui Generis Regime of International Responsibility for NSAGs Read More »

It is both terribly pleasing and terrifying to be invited to have a book symposium around a recent book. A substantive conversation with a group of diverse, insightful, and engaged readers is exactly the kind of exercise that academia should more systematically foster, but in reality most of us are over-solicited in too many different …

“Rebel Courts” Book Symposium – Author Response to Contributors Read More »

Some years ago, when I was doing research on rebel governance, I heard a story about a truck driver going from Syria to Iraq through ISIS-held territory. He paid customs duties to ISIS, and continued on to the area controlled by the Iraqi state. When he reached a government checkpoint, the Iraqi officials honored his …

“Rebel Courts” Book Symposium – Rebel Courts and the Rule of Law Read More »