Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law

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➡️ "Are the Targets of Aerial Spraying Operations in Colombia Lawful Under International Humanitarian Law?" – Héctor Olasolo and Felipe Tenorio-Obando consider the legality of aerial spraying operations in Colombia – a contentious program due to environmental risks – from an IHL perspective.

➡️ "You Say Precautions, I Say Prevention: Towards the Systemic Integration of International Humanitarian Law and International Environmental Law" – Yiokasti Mouratidi analyses the interrelationship of IHL and International Environmental Law (IEL) through the principle of systemic integration.

🌱 Today, on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, we look back on some of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law’s previous chapters that address the intersection of environmental harm and IHL.

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➡️ Emancipation, Humanity, and Peace: A Response – Samuel Moyn offers a brief response to these contributions.

📘 Explore the full Focus Section here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

➡️ The Peace Movement and Grassroots International Law – Doreen Lustig focusses on Moyn’s discussion of peace movements, which served as important precursors to the current IHL regime.

➡️ Wars with and for Humanity – Craig Jones and Nisha Shah explore the concept of “humanity” in war and whether it has any room within the discussion and critique of war.

📗 Explore the book symposium, featuring contributions that engage critically with Moyn’s arguments, as well as a response to these reflections by the author himself.

🌍 In light of the recent International Day of Peace, we are revisiting the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law’s first ever Focus Section, centred on Samuel Moyn’s "Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War" (2021).

📢 New book: Enforcing International Humanitarian Law via Individual Rights — The Role of Strategic Litigation in Germany by Dr Vera Strobel examines how strategic litigation can advance IHL and protect civilians.

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The Geneva Conventions, adopted 76 years ago today and ratified worldwide, are the backbone of international humanitarian law. They:

🔹 Protect those who are not or no longer fighting.
🔹 Save lives and reduce suffering.

Even in armed conflicts, humanity must prevail.

📘New book: Dual-use Objects under International Humanitarian Law: Towards a Paradigm Shift by Dr Francesca Capone is out now! It exposes gaps in protecting civilian infrastructure in war and calls for legal reform.

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Does the law of targeting require objective or subjective tests to determine state responsibility for violations?
Israel/US now shifting to subjective tests of intention - with grave consequences for civilians.
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Warm thanks to the authors, our Editorial Board (@heikekrieger.bsky.social, Pablo Kalmanovitz, @eliavl.bsky.social, and @sepantazo.bsky.social), our editorial assistant (Baptiste Beurrier) and, of course, lots of gratitude to the peer-reviewers!

Lastly, our comprehensive ‘Year in Review 2023’, authored by Belén Guerrero Romero, Wamika Sachdev and Baptiste Beurrier, offers a detailed compilation of significant IHL/LOAC developments that took place within 2023.

Prompted by the war in Ukraine, Robin Sinnige then explores when support, and specifically the provision of processed satellite imagery, might render a third state a co-party to an armed conflict, proposing a three-part test (extent, causality, and intent) to clarify this legal grey area.

In the general section, Neil Davison traces the decades-long effort to close a key loophole in the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention regarding the use of toxic chemicals for law enforcement, culminating in a 2021 clarification banning aerosolised central nervous system-acting agents.

Then, Oscar A. Gomez, using the case of Colombia’s well-developed state humanitarian agencies, argues that the state should be recognised as a central humanitarian actor, beyond the usual roles of the benevolent funder or the helpless receiver.

The first piece, authored by David Matyas, calls for a rethinking of humanitarian assistance law from the perspective of humanitarian practitioners to better reflect the practical realities and legal challenges faced by humanitarian actors.

🚨 Volume 26 (2023) of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is now available! It features two chapters on ‘Humanitarian Actors’, two general chapters, and the ‘Year in Review’ that covers IHL-related developments throughout 2023.

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📢 Our #callforpapers for Volume 28 (2025) is now out!

📖 Theme: "Facts in International Humanitarian Law"

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➡️ There are also a selection of chapters in Vol 19 (2016) that address respect for and compliance with IHL by non-state armed groups:

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➡️ Ezequiel Heffes, “Generating Respect for International Humanitarian Law: The Establishment of Courts by Organized Non-State Armed Groups in Light of the Principle of Equality of Belligerents” (Vol 18 (2015))

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