Welcome to the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) is an interdisciplinary research programme that aims to strengthen law, norms and institutions to restrain, regulate and prevent armed conflict. Drawing on the disciplines of philosophy, law and international relations, ELAC seeks to develop a more sophisticated framework of rules and stronger forms of international authority relating to armed conflict. Research activity addresses all aspects of armed conflict, including the recourse to war, the conduct of war, and post-conflict governance, transition and reconstruction.

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Events

‘The Future of the NPT: Taking Stock after the 2013 NPT PrepCom’ Nuclear Research Seminar with Professor Bill Potter, Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies -Weds 22 May 2pm

News

Court between A Rock and a Hard Place: Dapo Akande blogs on the referral of Israel’s Raid on Gaza Flotilla to the ICC

BBC Radio 3 Night Waves - David Rodin on 'Future Warfare'

Stepping Up the Pace of Ratifications of the ICC Amendments on the Crime of Aggression : Dapo Akande blogs on the unresolved questions

Papers from the 3rd ELAC Annual Workshop published as symposium in the Leiden Journal of International Law

In Syria, the U.S. ‘red line’ continues to shift - Jennifer Welsh writes on the ongoing conflict

Hugo Slim interviewed on humanitarian action in Syria on IPI Global Observatory

Kenya’s Hopes for Justice in the Hands of the Accused - Serena Sharma on the contested Presidential election

ELAC contibutes to new RUSI Whitehall Report, 'Hitting the Target?' on drones and intervention