Protecting the child who bears arms: How the status of Zones of Peace for Children under Philippine Act No. 11188 distorts International Humanitarian Law
By Lance Ryan J. Villarosa
Super soldiers—or the concept that there exists a specific class of soldiers possessing strengths and competence rivaling that of fiction, used to belong solely in the realm of comic books. However, with the enactment... Read moreEthical Paradigm of Buddhism: A Buttress for Compliance with International Humanitarian Law
By Pimchanok Palasmith
The core Buddhist morality revolves around the instruction “[t]o avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind” (Dhammapada 183). For achieving these aims, Buddhist lay followers were encouraged to uphold precepts and practice meditation.... Read moreEnvironmental destruction during armed conflict, anthropocentrism-ecocentrism divide and defining ecocide
by Ramindu Perera
The anti-ecocide movement emerged as an initiative to use international criminal law to prohibit large scale destruction of the natural environment. The legal definition of ecocide published by the Independent Expert Panel appointed by Stop Ecocide Foundation... Read moreRedefining Rescue Operations in Contemporary Naval Warfare: A Necessary Interplay between Maritime Bodies in International Law
By Alba Grembi
While international law in general takes into account evolving State capacities in technology and material challenges, the obsolete character of certain norms under the law of naval warfare leaves the framework of present-day maritime rescue operations incomplete.... Read morePreliminary Pages
Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law
2022 Edition
Foreword by Ms. Sahar Haroon, ICRC Regional Legal Adviser in Southeast Asia Preface by Prof. Rommel J. Casis, Managing EditorArticles
Interview with Dr. Helen Durham By Allelu de Jesus and Jeffrey-Michael Sison Book Review of "Revisiting the Geneva... Read moreCommissions of Inquiry as Bulwarks against Impunity
By Sarthak Roy
Commissions of Inquiry encompass a wide range of bodies across the international legal and political landscape. From fact-finding missions, Commissions of Inquiry now confront institutional normative shifts of magnitude in the areas of international humanitarian, human rights,... Read moreBook Review of “Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949-2019”
By Santosh Anand
The standard disciplinary history of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 tended to depict a picture that was exclusively a triumph of humanitarian principles. Only much later did revisionist scholarly accounts emerge that analyzed the present day issues... Read moreInterview with Dr Helen Durham
Allelu de Jesus and Jeffrey-Michael Sison, Legal Advisers International Committee of the Red Cross
Dr Helen Durham has been the director of international law and policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (“ICRC”) since 2014. Previously,... Read morePreliminary Pages
Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law
2021 Edition
Foreword by Ms. Sahar Haroon, ICRC Regional Legal Adviser in Southeast Asia Preface by Prof. Rommel J. Casis, Managing EditorPart I. Voices from the Region
Interview with Judge O-Gon Kwon Preliminary Remarks on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems from... Read more
Interview with Judge O-Gon Kwon
Judge O-Gon Kwon was a permanent judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from November 2001 to March 2016. He was also Vice President of the tribunal from 2008 to 2011. At the ICTY, he presided...
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