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21 Oct Upcoming Events: October 21, 2012
...place in the Newseum in Washington DC. On January 10-11, 2013, The T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, in cooperation with the International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Municipality of The Hague, will host a symposium entitled “The Boundaries of the Battlefield: A Critical Look at the Legal Paradigms and Rules in Countering Terrorism” with the aim of discussing the contours of various approaches states take against non-state actors with the goal of countering terrorism. Specifically, the two-day...08 Dec Ready. Aim. Click.
This message just went out on Twitter: WE ARE ATTACKING WWW.VISA.COM IN AN HOUR! GET YOUR WEAPONS READY http://bit.ly/e6iR3X AND STAY TUNED. #ddos #wikiealsk #payback Sure sounds like war to me. I have no idea what the weapons actually consist of, but they were apparently effective earlier today against Mastercard. I wonder if Visa’s “troops” are now metaphorically massing on the other side of the battlefield, preparing for the counterattack. The credit card companies may not take much more than a symbolic hit from this, but it still seems like...09 Sep Peace Palace 100: Great Powers and Common People in a Century of War and Peace
...Robert H. Jackson Center and other institutions, that takes place at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. In doing this, he noted the historical link to von Suttner: On leaving the sessions this year, I discovered that Bertha von Suttner had come to Chautauqua in the summer of 1912 to speak in the same amphitheatre before a crowd of thousands… It is reported that von Suttner spoke at Chautauqua about the need to resolve disputes between nations in court and not on the battlefield, and about how the Permanent...10 Oct John Yoo Gives Partial Endorsement for Awlaki Memo
...put aside the arguments they made during the Bush years that any terrorist outside the Afghani battlefield was a criminal suspect who deserved his day in federal court. By my lights, I would rather the Obama folks be hypocrites in favor of protecting the national security than principled fools (which they are free to be in the faculty lounges both before and after their time in government). But the administration’s former worldview of terrorism still infects their decisions, to the country’s detriment. According to the reports, the Obama administration believes...09 Feb Videogames and the Red Cross (Updated)
...Johnson can continue to use the red cross on products it has manufactured for a century, but can not on new developments like liquid bandages). While nothing like the penalties a warrior might face for abuse of the red cross emblem on the battlefield, it still should get the attention of game developers who presumably are accustomed to at worst facing the prospect of civil suits over potential intellectual property infringement. For those interested in exploring the topic further, an article published by the Red Cross itself is available here....19 Sep Chess, Politics, and the Ground Zero Islamic Center Debacle
...saying. Via ChessVibes and OneFIDE, Ilyumzhinov is quoted at having said: “As President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), and as a person who has always supported inter religious understanding, I propose the construction of an International Chess Center at the site in question. Chess is a unique and intellectual game, it came to the West from the East, unites every country, and it has affinities with every religion equally. My dream as President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) is that chess becomes the only “battlefield” between East and...04 Mar Yet Another Defense Attorney Attacked by the Bush Administration
...potential for other countries to provide captured U.S. military personnel with the same limited rights as the U.S. is proposing to use. “A principal concern as a member of the military is that I do not want my fellow service members placed in any jeopardy beyond the risk they already face,” he said. Mori told reporters he personally believes Hicks should be tried in an Australian court. Mori said he is not free to discuss the circumstances which led to Hicks’ battlefield capture, nor other specifics of Hicks’ case. However,...
06 Jun Can War Crimes Trials in Ukraine Convince Russians to Stop Supporting the War?
...serve to rally public support in Russia for Putin’s ‘special military operation’. It could also embolden soldiers on the battlefield to commit atrocities with impunity. Putin’s 12 July 2021 article “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” imagines Ukraine as an inferior vassal of Russia. Putin branded Ukraine’s leadership as ‘neo-Nazis and drug addicts’ responsible for perpetrating ‘genocide’ against Donbas ethnic Russians. Sustained Kremlin rhetoric against Ukraine long predates the 24 February invasion and it helps explain the serious discrepancy between public opinion inside and outside Russia. The Kremlin’s...24 Nov UN Proposes to Use Surveillance Drones in DR Congo-Rwanda Conflict
...previous plan to get drones into DR Congo was dropped because of the cost, But the price of the technology has come down with so many countries now using unmanned planes for battlefield reconnaissance and espionage. “The UN has approached a number of countries, including the United States and France, about providing drones which could clearly play a valuable role monitoring the frontier,” a UN diplomat said, on condition of anonymity.” Clearly there will be political considerations though,” the diplomat added. The UN plan is only to have surveillance drones,...03 May How Should the OBL Operation be Characterized?
...and Kooijmans recognized that in a post-9/11 world containing failed states, state practice strongly supports the view that an expansive reading of Article 51 to include non-state actors is appropriate. Sunday’s operation was another example of state practice undertaken with the belief that the boundaries of the battlefield are not determined by geopolitical lines but rather by the location of participants in an armed conflict, whether the participants are states or non-state actors. This continues to be the standard for determining where the law of armed conflict is properly applied....