We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2026 Special Issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law on the theme Artificial Intelligence and Warfare.
The special issue examines how emerging military uses of artificial intelligence are reshaping contemporary warfare and putting pressure on existing frameworks of international humanitarian law, accountability, and human control.
The Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law (APJIHL) is a publication of the Institute of International Legal Studies-University of the Philippines Law Center (UP-IILS). The Journal seeks to produce peer-reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, and commentary on significant developments and current issues in international humanitarian law and related fields. It has a special focus on the Asia-Pacific region, and the Regular Issue is published once a year.
The 2026 Special Issue includes the following articles:
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Background and Overarching Themes by Samuel WHITE, Jonathan KWIK, Danielle YEOW, & Jon TRUBY
- Learned Deception in AI-Enabled Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems by Dora Vanda VELENCZEI
- A Spoonful of Poison: Why the Martens Clause is the Antidote to Pre-Conflict Cyber Mischief by Samuel WHITE, & Daniel HARKER
- Coding the Laws of War: Will Treaty-Following AI collapse into the dichotomy between ‘apology’ and ‘utopia’? by Sze Hong LAM
- Between Review, Transfer and Principle: The Limits of Article 36, the Arms Trade Treaty and the Martens Clause in AI Warfare by Anviksha PACHORI
- Human Dignity and Machine Agency: Reconciling International Humanitarian Law with the Ontology of Artificial Decision-Makers by Sergey SAYAPIN
- De Jure Necessity vs. De Facto Improbability? Establishing a New Treaty for Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain by Zhixiong HUANG, Haokun YU
- The Concept of Lethality in the Autonomous Weapon Systems Debate and Its Implications by Mei Ching LIU
- Transcending the Dilemma of Applying IHL to LAWS in Agency Spillover Engagements: A Legal Analytical Perspective on Human-Machine Hybrid Agency by Fan YANG
- Digital Forensics as a Verification Method for AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Systems by Drexx LAGGUI
- AI in Defence: Implications for Southeast Asia Militaries by Erick Nielson C. JAVIER
- Quo Vadis International Humanitarian Law in AI-Enabled Conflicts: A Southeast Asia Regional Perspective by Bagus JATMIKO
