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Anwar Al-Awlaki, the high-profile proponent of violent jihad, is reported to have taken on a leadership role in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a US-designated terrorist organization that has committed a chain of terrorist attacks against [...] The article argues that the so-called ‘new wars’ pose a fundamental challenge to international humanitarian law (IHL). Although not historically new, this type of war differs in crucial respects from the conception of war that underlies [...] This article analyses the legality of Israel’s 2007 airstrike on an alleged Syrian nuclear facility at Al-Kibar—an incident that has been largely overlooked by international lawyers to date. The absence of a threat of imminent attack from [...] This article examines the contributions of international judicial institutions to the restoration of two post-conflict societies (Rwanda and Sierra Leone). The destruction of the legal and socio-political structures of a society is a typical [...] The inclusion of ‘armed mercenary personnel’ within the terms of the arms embargo imposed upon Libya in SC Resolution 1970, and further elaborated in SC Resolution 1973, although largely unnoticed, holds three significant implications. [...] In the past decades, allegations of human rights violations (eg sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA)) committed by UN peacekeepers against the local population repeatedly surfaced, affecting the credibility of UN peacekeeping. In response to reports [...] The increasing resort to fact-finding missions from various international actors to address alleged human rights and international humanitarian law violations raises various issues ranging from one of an agreed common methodology to ascertain [...] |
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