📩 Stay tuned for our upcoming Volume on the theme "International Humanitarian Law under Pressure": link.springer.com/book/9789462...

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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.

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

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➡️ 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.

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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.