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Last fall, Canadians were rightly appalled to learn that an alleged Nazi veteran had been invited to sit in the House of Commons and received a standing ovation from MPs across the political spec...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/02/14/an-alleged-nazi-was-invited-to-parliament-but-why-are-there-nazis-and-war-criminals-in-canada-in-the-first-place/

Israel is facing charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This was not inevitable, and reasonable people can disagree over whether the contemporary legal threshold of gen...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/02/02/could-israel-commit-ever-genocide-victims-of-atrocities-can-and-do-become-perpetrators-of-atrocities/

Barrie Sander joins JiC for this four-part series on what the situation in Israel and Palestine tell us about how we understand, construct, and tell stories about international law. Barrie is ...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/26/international-law-and-the-stories-we-tell-reflections-on-international-lawyers-narratives-and-the-situation-in-israel-palestine-part-3/

Barrie Sander joins JiC for this second article in a four-part series on what the situation in Israel and Palestine tell us about how we understand, construct, and tell stories about internation...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/25/international-law-and-the-stories-we-tell-reflections-on-international-lawyers-narratives-and-the-situation-in-israel-palestine-international-law-and-the-stories-we-tell-part-2/

Barrie Sander joins JiC for this four-part series on what the situation in Israel and Palestine tell us about how we understand, construct, and tell stories about international law. Barrie is Ass...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/24/international-law-and-the-stories-we-tell-reflections-on-international-lawyers-narratives-and-the-situation-in-israel-palestine-part-one/

Israel has now responded to South Africa’s allegations of genocide in Gaza. In its submissions at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel’s lawyers relied on a combination of legal...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/19/genocide-doesnt-just-happen-israel-gaza-and-genocide-as-a-process-not-an-event/

This week, I had the opportunity to speak before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in Ottawa. I spoke Canada’s piecemeal commitment to ...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2023/11/30/the-currency-of-diplomacy-a-speech-canadas-commitment-to-international-law-and-prosecuting-international-crimes/

Food is running out. Surgeries and births are taking place without anaesthesia. Fuel shortages mean the only cancer hospital has closed. Without the basics needed to survive, the majority of G...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2023/11/10/a-lifeline-for-gaza-lifting-the-blockade-and-securing-a-humanitarian-sea-corridor/

Chantal Meloni joins JiC for the blog post on the situation in Israel and Gaza and the need for international law to be applied. Chantal Meloni is International criminal law professor at the Uni...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2023/11/03/the-war-in-gaza-international-law-is-nothing-if-it-is-not-applied/

A version of this article was first published at Al Jazeera, here. The devastating explosion of al-Ahli Arab Hospital in central Gaza, in which the Palestinian Health Ministry says at least 500 ...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2023/10/26/if-not-the-icc-then-who-the-need-for-an-international-investigation-into-atrocities-in-israel-and-palestine/