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Drone Warfare in the Mirror of Human Rights

open access: yesNurani Hukum
International humanitarian law is divided into two main "branches": jus in bello and jus ad bellum. The jus ad bellum is the branch of international humanitarian law that deals with the rules that govern the justification of the use of force by states ...
Adam Perger
doaj   +1 more source

Just War and the Indian Tradition: Arguments from the Battlefield [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A famous Indian argument for jus ad bellum and jus in bello is presented in literary form in the Mahābhārata: it involves events and dynamics between moral conventionalists (who attempt to abide by ethical theories that give priority to the good) and ...
Ranganathan, Shyam
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Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), while offering strategic advantages in warfare, pose significant ethical, legal, and security risks, especially for countries in the Global South. This article examines how a philosophical perspective, rooted in African ethical and political thought, can enrich regional and global debates on regulating ...
Ezenwa E. Olumba   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Silent War: Applicability of the Jus in Bello to Military Space Operations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This is the final version of the article. Available on open access from the publisher via the link in this record.There is another ORE record for this publication, which incorporates final minor changes to the text: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31909There
Mačák, K
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Possibility of applying the rules of international humanitarian law to cyber warfare

open access: yesPravo
Cyber warfare represents a new form of conflict in today’s world. Unlike earlier traditional armed conflicts, cyber warfare is different in terms of means, methods, techniques, and actors.
Sanela Veljković
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Августинова теорија праведног рата

open access: yesGodišnjak, 2015
Augustine is usually credited as the founder of the theory of just war in Christianity. This theory was defined in the time when Roman Empire was in retreat in front of the barbarians and when Church was struggling against heretics.
Miloš Jelić
doaj   +1 more source

Lawfare and hybrid warfare-how Russia is using the law as a weapon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This short paper introduces the reader to the mutating military concept of hybrid warfare and one of its implementing methods, the use of law as a weapon.
Bachmann, Sascha-Dominik, Mosquera, A.
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One Century of Change: Stronger Diversity Decline in Lowland Than in Mountain Grasslands in Central Europe

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 10, October 2025.
Written Summary: We resampled 416 historical vegetation records (originally sampled between 1884 and 1931) from grasslands across Switzerland at a wide range of elevations and moisture levels. We found severe declines in alpha, beta, and gamma taxonomic diversity as well as functional and phylogenetic alpha diversity over the last century.
Stefan Widmer   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Laws of War in the Pre-Dawn Light: Institutions and Obligations in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This Essay in honor of Oscar Schachter criticizes both ahistorical renderings of the law of war and realist depictions of Peloponnesian War by asking whether Thucydides describes the conditions of a law of war.
Stephen M. Sheppard
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The Presence of Alternative Tree Species in European Beech Forests Drives Change in Functional Diversity and Composition of Forest Floor Plant Communities

open access: yesJournal of Vegetation Science, Volume 36, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
Admixing alternative tree species in European beech forests is associated with changes in the functional diversity and composition of forest floor vegetation. Higher functional richness and divergence were observed in stands containing Douglas fir, silver fir, or sessile oak, while shifts in trait composition varied depending on tree species and site ...
Lukas Bärmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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