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Führerprinzip or 'I Was Following Orders' in Jus in Bello Era

open access: yesConatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023
In June of 1945, the International Military Tribunal (ITM) formed in London, faced the problem of a non-yet existing legal armor for the Nazi crimes. Two new rules were widely accepted there.
George Boutlas
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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
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The Problem of the Legitimacy of War in the Context of Ethical Concepts: The Example of the 44-day War

open access: yesConatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023
The article analyzes the issues of the legitimacy of war, the relationship between war and morality in the context of different ethical concepts. It is shown that the somewhat ‘fashionable’ notion of the ethics of war is actually problematic and does ...
Armen Sargsyan
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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

Nuclear Threats Under International Law Part II: Applying the Law

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Throughout the nuclear age, states have made a wide array of threats to use nuclear weapons. There is, however, often little clarity as to whether such threats are legal or illegal under international law. This article is the second in a two-part series,
Anna Hood, Monique Cormier
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Does AI Affect the Democratic Conduct of War? Analyzing US and Israeli Military AI Deployment

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 17, Issue S2, Page S45-S56, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the use of decision‐support military Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can affect the democratic conduct of warfare. AI can challenge the democratic conduct of warfare by introducing systemic risks such as reduced oversight, opacity, and automation bias.
Alessandra Russo
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Law in Jus in Bello and Jus ad Bellum: What Lessons for Business and Human Rights?

open access: yesAJIL Unbound, 2020
This contribution, rather than focusing on the debates within the Business and Human Rights (BHR) domain itself, offers a comparison between soft law regulation in the BHR context, on the one hand, and in the jus in bello (JIB) and jus ad bellum (JAB ...
Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg
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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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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 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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