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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...
04 Jul Death and Dignity in Ukraine’s Armed Conflict: An Insight into the Protection of Victims’ Remains under International Law Part I
...be done “whenever circumstances permit and particularly after an engagement” but “without delay” from this moment on (CIHL Rule 112). Moreover, this is an obligation of means, which belligerents shall observe diligently, for example, by concluding arrangements to set up teams to look for and gather victims from the battlefield areas (API, art. 33 (4)) or by allowing humanitarian organizations, such as the ICRC, to carry out this work (API, art. 17 (2)). In contexts where the dead have already been interred and it is suspected that their death results from...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...
08 Oct Trump vs. International Law: Exploiting the Legal Gaps Left by the Obama Administration
...position, ever since the 9/11 attacks, that the U.S. is engaged in a “global war on terror” that initially rejected even the Geneva Conventions as “quaint” and inapplicable — a position later corrected by the Supreme Court. But the US still maintains that a “global war” framework allows it to ignore human rights such as the right to life protected under the ICCPR by declaring the entire world a potential battlefield where the ICCPR does not apply to US conduct. Koh writes that Obama “abandoned” the claim of an open-ended...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,...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...
05 Feb Neurotechnology and Cognitive Warfare
...campaigns fall under the broader concept of cognitive warfare. This is a relatively new designation for an age-old concept in war, namely that influencing perceptions and manipulating the flow of information can be just as important as winning on the battlefield. This form of ‘hybrid warfare’ leverages all technological means available (including cyber, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and psychology, social media, and information technologies), to collect data on targets, analyze their weaknesses, and deliver tailored messages to maximally impact the targets’ beliefs and cognition. What is more, this form of ‘warfare’...
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,...