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“Negotiating Survival” Book Symposium – Lessons and Questions for Humanitarian Access in Violent Contexts

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Ashley Jackson’s extraordinary book, Negotiating Survival, is a fascinating dive into the complex interactions that characterize relationships between civilians and members of armed groups. In the last decade, understanding how armed groups interact with people under their influence has become a central topic in the study of civil war. While a growing body of research references negotiations …

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Call for Papers – Conference on Religious Actors & Humanitarian Norms Compliance

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The Generating Respect Project invites paper submissions for the conference Religious Actors & Humanitarian Norms Compliance in Armed Conflict: Roles, Influence, Engagement that will take place online between 8 and 10 December 2021. The conference will take stock of important developments relating to the engagement between humanitarians and religious actors aimed at generating greater respect for humanitarian norms in …

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Compliance Symposium: Pariah or Stakeholders? Enhancing Compliance with Humanitarian Norms by Including Non-State Armed Groups’ Views and Practice

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Up at Opinio Juris, you can find the latest post by Annyssa Bellal and Pascal Bongard “Compliance Symposium: Pariah or Stakeholders? Enhancing Compliance with Humanitarian Norms by Including Non-State Armed Groups’ Views and Practice” in our co-hosted symposium on Compliance in Armed Conflict. Check it out here!

“No ceasefire for women!” Resisting violence against women in conflict and in “peace”: The role of The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians

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Nontando Hadebe is the current chair of The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians in South Africa where she resides. A ceasefire is an agreement between warring groups to stop fighting “while a way is found to end the fighting permanently” (Oxford Dictionary). In the case of women there is an unofficial war waged against …

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Symposium on Compliance in Armed Conflict: New Avenues to Generate Respect for Humanitarian Norms

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That the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) faces challenges from different quarters is not news. It is, rather, an observation that has been made by scholars and practitioners alike – to the point of tritness. Whilst we deeply acknowledge the importance of discussing the manifold challenges to humanitarian …

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From cockroaches to rosebuds: changing the international community’s perception of non-State armed groups

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The 2019 ICRC so called ‘Challenges Report’ has identified the ‘proliferation of non?State armed groups’ (NSAG) as being a central feature of ‘the changing geopolitical landscape of the last decade’. It is undeniable that the existence of a multiplicity of NSAG in a given context creates serious challenges for humanitarian and aid organisations, not only …

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Monitoring IHL Compliance during Non-International Armed Conflicts: The Need for a Complementary Approach – Part II

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The Monitoring System of the Office of the Special Representative of the SG for Children and Armed Conflict Apart from the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Optional Protocol to the CRC, the thematic area of children in armed conflict is monitored by the Office of the Special Representative of the …

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Engaging Armed Non-State Actors on the Protection of Health Care: Some Promising Steps

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Attacks against health care in armed conflicts represent one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our days. In a number of ongoing situations, medical workers are kidnapped, injured or killed, medical facilities and transports are bombed, shelled or looted, wounded fighters and patients are often under attacked and fighting takes place within or near health …

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