[Christopher Elliott is a war crimes researcher based in Canada. He has a Master of Anthropology from the Australian National University and a Doctor of Philosophy from King’s College London.] As the Israel-Hamas war drags through its sixth month, one topic of immense and continuing controversy is the use of AI tools by the IDF as part of its military targeting...
[Kudakwashe Zvikomborero Mapako is a Research Officer at the African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) in the Arms Control and Nonproliferation program.] Introduction Although nuclear weapons have only been used in warfare twice, approximately 13,080 are said to remain in our world today, and over 2,000 nuclear tests have been conducted to date. Disarmament is the best defense against such...
[Captain Peter S. Konchak is a Judge Advocate in the United States Army who is currently assigned to the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate for III Armored Corps and Fort Cavazos, and whose academic work is focused on matters of national security law and policy.] [The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do...
[Captain Peter S. Konchak is a Judge Advocate in the United States Army who is currently assigned to the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate for III Armored Corps and Fort Cavazos, and whose academic work is focused on matters of national security law and policy.] [The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent...
[Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho is a Research Associate (Ocean Law and Policy) at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore] The Context Between 22 November and 4 December 2023, Greenpeace launched high seas protests against the Danish-flagged MV Coco, involved in deep seabed exploration and operated by Nauru Ocean Resources Inc (NORI). Sponsored by Nauru, NORI was exercising its...
[Britta Redwood is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Howard University School of Law, where she serves as the Interim Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center and lead a legal clinic focused on reparatory justice. She is also the founder of the Historical Redress Network.] Recently, a poll conducted in Britain revealed that six in ten people believe that the descendants...
[The interview was conducted by Klaudia Klonowska, a Ph.D. Candidate in International Law at the Asser Institute and the University of Amsterdam. Klaudia is a member of the research project Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence (DILEMA) led by Dr. Berenice Boutin.] The Annual Lecture held at the Peace Palace is a long-standing tradition of the Asser Institute in The Hague....
[Shadi Sadr was a member of the panel at the International People's Tribunals on Indonesia, Myanmar, and China. She is also a co-founder and director of Justice for Iran, and a PhD candidate at Leiden University.] It is inconceivable, in the post-Nuremberg world, for those affected by atrocities to find no avenue for justice. Yet, many atrocities have been neglected by...
[Andrew Forde is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights.] On 16 April 2024, Kosovo passed a major decision gate in its path towards membership of the Council of Europe (CoE) when the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) recommended that it be invited to become a member state with a very strong majority of 131 votes in favour, 29...
[Chief Charles A. Taku is great grandson of Asunganyi, King of the Bangwa, Counsel before International Courts and Tribunals, and Former President of the International Criminal Court Bar Association] ‘To validate one’s heritage, to explore one’s culture, to examine thoroughly those institutions which have persisted through centuries, is perhaps the first step in a peoples’ search for independence and in their...
[João Figueiredo is a research associate at the Käte Hamburger kolleg “Legal Unity and Pluralism” of the University of Münster, Germany. He researches Portuguese colonialism in Angola, using historical anthropology and legal history to shed new light on aspects of the history of the slave trade, abolitionism, and the origins of systemic racism.] Individual examples prove nothing. Still, a single case...
[Gracia Lwanzo Kasongo is a PhD researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium and a member of the Institute of Political Science Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE). She is a legal scholar and political scientist and former fellow of the American Bar Association (ABA)] 1. Introduction In the colonialist moves to collect human remains, and the desire to demonstrate grandeur and strength,...