International Humanitarian Law

Dominating Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian policy for centuries - now, we are witnessing a genocide. The Russian invas...

The Small Arms Survey 2014 considers the multiple roles of women in the context of armed violence, security, and the small arms agenda. The volume'...

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the entities responsible for the production of data on armed conflicts (DAC), the ...

This book covers the issue of global migration flows, with a particular focus on irregular migration. It presents and evaluates the principal drive...

[I]f humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to a Rwanda, to a Srebrenicato gross and s...

Understanding the global security environment and delivering the necessary governance responses is a central challenge of the 21st century. On a gl...

Proving International Crimes elucidates how international criminal tribunals have tackled the immense and complex task of proving international cri...

The book tells (and analyzes) the story of the United Nations multidimensional stabilization operation in Mali (MINUSMA), which closed at the end o...

Interventions on behalf of Armenia and Armenians have come to be identified by scholars and practitioners alike as defining moments in the history ...

The defining moments of 2001, the terrorist attacks of September 11 against the UnitedStatesofAmerica,markedaturningpointininternational lawandrela...

This book reviews the nature of the alleged abuse committed by the UK military forces, exploring the legal paradigm in which the abuse allegedly oc...

This illuminating study describes the genesis of the contemporary doctrine of humanitarian intervention. It is the first comprehensive analysis of ...

Two leading feminist lawyers reflect on gender in international law to set out what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on internationa...

How laws are created, shaped, and applied is a significant but often overlooked component of studies on armed conflict. Almost every contentious le...

The question of what constitutes an armed conflict has featured prominently in international law debates. However, international lawyers have paid ...

The world's only annual publication devoted to the study of the laws of armed conflict, the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law provides a t...

The world's only annual publication devoted to the study of the laws of armed conflict, the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law provides a t...

Since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, jihad has become symbolic of the confrontation between Muslims and the West. According to...

The Inter-American System of Human Rights (IASHR) is certainly a source of innovation in human rights law and policy. However, uncertainty reigns o...

In the 1990s, the promise of justice for atrocity crimes was associated with the revival of international criminal tribunals (ICTs). More recently,...

The laws of war are facing new challenges from emerging technologies and changing methods of warfare, as well as the growth of human rights and int...