A research partnership aimed at building evidence on promoting restraint by armed actors to prevent and reduce humanitarian need and civilian harm in war.
New blog post! @ABartlesSmith highlights the importance of looking at religious non-Western thought systems to complement and reinvigorate dominant Western conceptions of #HumanitarianAction.
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Andrew illustrates how alternative frames of reference beyond the boundaries of #IHL (Buddhist perspecties of #ArmedConflict/psychology/concepts of non-harm restraint) can contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the negative lived experiences of armed conflict. /2
**Call: Research Partner - Ukraine Case Study** @CivCenter invites civil society organizations, national non-governmental organizations /or research institutes to express interest in contributing to a qualitative research c/study in #Ukrainebuff.ly/48MLML5 /1
The goal of the research is identifying strategies that have the most potential to generate compliance with #IHL restraint by #ArmedActors—and more broadly, to facilitate fuller protection—in order to prevent, reduce, and respond to #HarmAndNeed arising in #ArmedConflict. /end
New blog post! @DanStigall50: ‘Harm Mitigation Holarchy’ as a conceptual tool for understanding the distinct but interrelated nature of the 3 major conceptual frameworks regarding the mitigation of #CivilianHarm caused by #ArmedConflict.
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ALT Text: Beyond Compliance Symposium, The Harm Mitigation Holarchy: Human Security, Protection of Civilians, and Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response, An Online Blog Symposium
...as a solution Stigall presents them as a holarchy of nesting concepts to permit their helpful individuation while maintaining their reticular nature.
ALT Text: Beyond Compliance: In Conversation, Armed Groups and International Law Podcast. Two round pictures of the guests and text S1 Ep5: Decision Making in Armed Conflict
New blog post! With observations from the Nasa Indigenous people's experience of harm in #Colombia, @piergiuseppe_pa argues that the #IHL framework is insufficient to address spiritual harm caused by armed conflict.
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ALT Text: Beyond Compliance Symposium, Security Beyond the Physical - Addressing the Nasa Indigenous People's Spiritual Harm in Armed Conflict
Blog post! @JNiyo highlights the systemic impacts of protracted #ArmedConflicts often overlooked by narrow conceptualisations of #CivilianHarm & calls for a paradigm shift to acknowledge the broader systemic impacts of #war within #IHL norms
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ALT Text: Beyond Compliance Symposium, Systemic impacts of war in protracted conflicts, An Online Blog Symposium