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Mar 27, 2024 · War crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, ethnic cleansing: what do these international justice terms mean? What are war crimes? War crimes are violations of international humanitarian law (whose perpetrators incur individual criminal responsibility under international law).
What is a war crime? Serious violations of IHL are known as war crimes. States must investigate war crimes committed by their nationals or armed forces or on their territory and, if possible, prosecute the suspects.
- Mainly Men
- A Difficult Subject
- Let’s Talk About It—Masculinity and War
Is it mainly men who are responsible for the horrors of war? The answer is yes. The cultures and institutions that prepare for and deliver organized armed violence on behalf of the State or non-State armed groups are predominantly constructed by men, led by men and filled with men. There have always been exceptions to this rule, as there are today,...
Even if the evidence is clear, the subject seems difficult to raise. It is a painful subject for most of us because each of us—men and women—knows that although this fact of male violence is true, it is only one truth about men and only one truth about each man. This all makes the masculinity of war difficult to talk about. Most of us do not want t...
Let’s break the silence about mainly male violence. We can and should talk about men and masculinity in war, or even men and masculinity as war. We can do this by owning the problem and creating a more honest and realistic policy discussion of masculinity and war, which can be carefully informed by psychology, ethics, sociology, biology and, of cou...
armed conflict is guilty of a war crime, provided that he or she was aware of the circumstances which made that order unlawful or could reasonably have been expected to be aware of them.
Jun 9, 2022 · A Russian soldier has been sentenced to life in prison for committing war crimes in Ukraine. But what are the rules of a war crime and how can they be enforced? IDEAS speaks to three...
This article identifies the conflicting precedents and scholarship regarding the law of command responsibility, which create uncertainty, and proposes a clarification of that law, with a special focus on the “reason to know” standard that triggers responsibility for failing to prevent or punish war crimes.
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The war crime “making medical or religious personnel, medical units or medical transports the object of attack” covers aspects of the war crime contained in Article 8(2)(b)(ix) and (xxiv) of the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
