The LSE IHL Project seeks to promote the study of international humanitarian law. It aims to engage the interest of and enhance a dialogue between the scholarly community, governments, organisations and institutions concerned with humanitarian issues, and the wider public.

International humanitarian law (IHL) faces a host of pressing challenges in today's globalised environment ranging from the changing methods of warfare, weapons advancement and development, to the conflation of law enforcement and armed conflict. The international armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have served to refocus international attention on the norms governing inter-state conflict while the internal conflicts in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chechnya have posed considerable problems, particularly where compliance is concerned. Understanding how best to meet these new challenges and to preserve human dignity in the context of conflict will be the central objective of the project's work.
 

Events in 2011/12

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IHL Dialogue Series

Current problems in the Law of Armed Conflict

Michaelmas Term 2011

 

Tuesday 18 October 2011  |   6.30pm – 7.45pm  |   Venue: STC.S421, St Clements Building 4th floor

'Resource Wars: Law, Land and Conflict'

Speakers: Bruce Broomhall (University of Quebec at Montreal);  Balakrishnan Rajagopal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Chair: Dr Stephen Humphreys (LSE Law Department)


Wednesday 2 November 2011  |   6.30pm – 7.45pm  |   Venue: Room CLM 7.02, Clement House (7th floor)

'Media and LOAC in International Criminal Tribunals'

Speakers: Predrag Dojcinovic (ICTY); Robert Heinsch (Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies)

Chair: Professor Frédéric Mégret (McGill)

 

 

IHL Forthcoming Events

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Tuesday 18 October 2011  |   6.30pm – 7.45pm  |   Venue: STC.S421, St Clements Building 4th floor

'Resource Wars: Law, Land and Conflict'

Speakers: Bruce Broomhall (University of Quebec at Montreal);  Balakrishnan Rajagopal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Chair: Chaloka Beyani (LSE Law Department)

This event is free and open to all. No ticket is required. For further information, please email s.j.humphreys@lse.ac.uk or phone 0207 955 6814.
 

Bruce Broomhall is a professor of law at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). He is currently pursuing research on resource conflicts under international law, building on collaborations he has undertaken over recent years with legal and policy experts from a range of fields in attempting to craft effective responses to the problem of illicit, conflict-fuelling natural resource economies. He has published on the role of criminal punishment in the enforcement of international norms, notably in his book International Justice and the International Criminal Court: Between Sovereignty and the Rule of Law (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Balakrishnan Rajagopal, B.L. (Madras), LL.M. (American), S.J.D. (Harvard) is Associate Professor of Law and Development and Director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He formerly served with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia and consulted with the UNDP, the World Commission on Dams and civil society organizations. He has been a member of the Executive Council and Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law, and is currently on the Asia Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch, the International Advisory Committee of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and the International Rights Advocates.  His books include International Law from Below: Development Social Movements and Third World Resistance and International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Justice.