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14 Jul

[Alexandria Virginski is a legal scholar whose research explores the intersections of human rights, international law, and security. She holds a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School and BA degrees in International Relations and Spanish from Michigan State University] The number of armed conflicts globally has reached levels not seen since World War II, and the intensity of conflicts has increased as...

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08 Jul

[Dr Aurel Sari is a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Exeter] Over the past two years, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law hosted an exchange on a question which until that point had received little attention in the literature: what does it mean for civilian harm to be ‘incidental’ within the meaning of the proportionality rule? Professor Luigi Daniele opened...

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29 Jun

[Luigi Daniele is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Molise, Italy, where he recently moved after working as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in IHL and ICL at Nottingham Law School (NTU)] The first part of this rejoinder has detailed why ‘incidental’, as qualifier of the foreseeable civilian harm object of proportionality assessments, cannot be understood as synonymous of ‘accidental’ or ‘fortuitous’...

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29 Jun

[Luigi Daniele is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Molise, Italy, where he recently moved after working as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in IHL and ICL at Nottingham Law School (NTU)] Last year, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law hosted an interesting debate on a surprisingly neglected topic, that is how to understand the notion of incidental civilian harm under...

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28 May

Cristián Correa is the Head of the Reparations Praxis Hub at the Global Survivors Fund (GSF), where he helps systematise and encourage learning from practical experiences of reparation for survivors of conflict related sexual violence. He also provides guidance to GSF work in Colombia, Syria, and Ukraine, where he helped design and implement the Pilot Project on Urgent Interim Reparation...

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28 Apr

[Jinan Bastaki is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi] During the UN General Assembly high-level week (September 2025), the US Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, delivered a presentation entitled “The Global Refugee and Asylum System: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It.” He made five points: a) every nation has the right to...

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