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• Influencer, gamer, soldier, spy: the online era of child recruitment and its implications in international law (Part II)

  October 8, 2026 · 20 min

  As social media and gaming platforms create new interfaces between tech-savvy children and armed actors, new questions should be asked regarding how the law prohibiting child recruitment and use in hostilities can be promoted and enforced…

• Influencer, gamer, soldier, spy: the online era of child recruitment and its implications in international law (Part I)

  October 1, 2026 · 18 min

  As social media and gaming platforms create new interfaces between tech-savvy children and armed actors, new questions should be asked regarding how the law prohibiting child recruitment and use in hostilities can be promoted and enforced…

• Terrorist, war criminal, or both? Towards dual prosecutions of war crimes and terrorist offences

  September 24, 2026 · 19 min

  A leading media figure and foreign fighter of a notorious group designated as terrorist was sentenced to life imprisonment for “conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, resulting in death”. Although…

• “Aid must be sustainable”: communities affected by conflict share what they want from humanitarians

  September 17, 2026 · 14 min

  The humanitarian landscape is being reshaped by converging trends, including the rapid adoption of new technologies in warfare, growing restrictions on how and where humanitarians can operate, impacts of the climate crisis and steep…

• The humanitarian case for universalizing the Convention on Cluster Munitions

  September 3, 2026 · 24 min

  Cluster munitions cause harm both at the moment of attack and long after fighting has ended. By scattering submunitions across wide areas, often with high failure rates, they expose civilians to immediate danger while leaving behind…

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