16 April 2023
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAY 09, 2014: Celebration of the Victory Day (WWII). Solemn passage of military hardware on Red Square. The Topol-M (SS-27 Sickle B) intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile complex

Facing Nuclear Vulnerabilities

By Benoît Pelopidas On 12 October 2022, the French President seemed worried about the growing number of references to nuclear weapons in the public arena […]
16 April 2023
Families of victims of enforced disappearance in Algeria hold peaceful protests once a week in Algiers. 2019. Photo © Christian Als/Panos Pictures. Source: REDRESS

Truth without Justice? Law in the Face of Mass Crimes

By Julie Saada Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many abuses have been committed according to an independent United Nations commission(1)The […]
16 April 2023
Premiere operation-de lutte contre le terrorisme INTERPOL-AFRIPOL. Source INTERPOL

Counterterrorism: How to Fail Most Successfully

By Didier Bigo How to assess the counterterrorism policies implemented abroad to prevent attacks on French soil? These policies emerged during George W. Bush Junior’s […]
16 April 2023
Les casques Bleus de la MINUSMA, lors de l'opération militaire « FRELANA » pour protéger les civils et leurs biens. Photo: MINUSMA / Harandane Dicko

UN Peacekeeping: Three Strategies on The Ground

By Chiara Ruffa As conflicts change and evolve, there is one fundamental tool of multilateralism that does not wane: United Nations (UN) peacekeeping. Symbolised by […]
16 April 2023
Taliban insurgents turn themselves in to Afghan National Security Forces at a forward operating base in Puza-i-Eshan -a. Crédits : isafmedia, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Armed Conflict: the Growing Impact of International Law

By Adam Baczko Contrary to the common perception of wars as lawless spaces, international norms influence the practices of warring parties. While prosecutions by international […]
16 April 2023
Signature de l'accord de paix entre le gouvernement colombien et les FARC, le 26 septembre 2016 à La Havane. Credits : Gobierno de Chile CC BY 2.0, via Wikipedia

Transitional Justice and Property: Inextricably Linked

By Helena Alviar Garcia ‘In the grand bargain struck between the apartheid government and the A.N.C., headed by Nelson Mandela, a transfer of power was […]
16 April 2023
La guerre cognitive, une nouvelle dimension dans l'espace de rivalité, aux côtés des milieux terrestre, maritime, aérien, cyber et spatial. © Plateforme OTAN d’échange pour l’innovation

Researchers and PhD Candidates Working on Armed Conflicts

Helena Alviar Comparative real estate law, Latin American law and institutions, Law and development, Social and economic rights, Transitional justice, Feminist and anti-discrimination theory. Law […]
15 December 2022
Signing Ceremony of Peace Agreement in Mali. Crédit photo : United Nations Photo CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr

From Dictatorships to Terrorism, How to End the Violence?

South Africa, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, post-communist Eastern Europe, post-dictatorship Latin America …: since the 1990s, many countries have had to negotiate a transition from violent […]
15 December 2022

On the State and Religions in France

After his reference book on the relationship between religion and politics in the French Revolution(1)Lucien Jaume,  Le religieux et le politique dans la Révolution française. […]