New Publication: Who Has the Right to Fight? Rethinking Legitimate Authority in War
Brianna Rosen has published a new article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, exploring a fundamental question in the ethics of war: who has the legitimate authority to authorise the use of force? Challenging the assumption that legitimate authority belongs...
Event: In Conversation with Chris Sidoti
On Monday 26 October, the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), together with the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and the Public International Law Research Group at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, will host an online discussion with...
Aide Memoire for the Consideration of Issues Pertaining to Conflict-Induced Food Insecurity
ELAC has collaborated with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to develop a new aide-mémoire to support humanitarian actors responding to food crises in situations of armed conflict. The guidance is designed to help humanitarian practitioners navigate the...
Addressing the Crisis of Medical Care in Armed Conflict
The entitlement of the wounded and sick to receive medical care is a foundational principle of international humanitarian law (IHL). Medical facilities and personnel are granted legal protection that allows them to serve their functions. This specific protection is...