Events
Converging Paradigms in Asymmetric Warfare
September 9, 2009
INSCT hosted a workshop on September 9, 2009, as part of the World Summit on Counter Terrorism: "Terrorism's Global Impact" at ICT's 9th International Conference in Herzliya, Israel. Participants this year included: William C. Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT), Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University, College of Law and Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs; Geoffrey S. Corn, Associate Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law, Houston; Eric Jenson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Fordham University Law School; Abraham D. Sofaer, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Daphné Richemond-Barak, Professor, Radzyner School of Law at the IDC, Herzliya; Corri Zoli, Research Fellow, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University; Keli Perrin, Assistant Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Adjunct Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
RELATED WEBSITE:
ICT's 9th
International Conference
State Conflicts with Non-State Actors:
Reconceptualizing Duties and Liabilities
September 10, 2008
Armed conflict often
involves weaker, non-state
combatants using strategies
and tactics forbidden by
international humanitarian
law to offset their military
disadvantage. Conducting a
battle is complicated by the
fact that the participants
cannot readily be labeled in
order to determine their
status and treatment under
the law. In recognition that
the traditional laws and
norms of armed conflict no
longer provide
sufficient guides for
combat, this workshop at
ICT's 8th International
Conference in Herzliya,
Israel, gathered together
scholars and practitioners
to further the debate about
the next steps in adapting
international humanitarian
law to this form of
asymmetric warfare.
RELATED DOCMENTS:
Symposium Agenda
RELATED WEBSITE:
ICT's 8th International
Conference
New Battlefields, Old Laws Symposium
October 8, 2007
At the
project's inaugural event at
the Omni Shoreham Hotel,
Washington, D.C., speakers
addressed critical issues:
Robert Siegel,
David Crane,
Irwin Cotler,
and Michael Scharf reviewed
the evolving history of the
laws of armed conflict and
international humanitarian
law. Renee de Nevers,
Greg
Rose and Col. Daniel Reisner
offered proposals from the
New Battlefields/Old Laws
research project that
suggest how rules may be
used to limit and govern
asymmetric conflicts between
states and non-state
entities. Tom E. Ricks and
panelists Montgomery Meigs,
Boaz Ganor,
Mitchel
Wallerstein,
Ruth Wedgwood,
and James Ross evaluated the
prospects and challenges in
implementing reforms
considering a broad range of
perspectives, nations, and
legal and policy cultures.
RELATED DOCUMENTS:
Symposium
Agenda |
List of panelists |
Press Release
RELATED PHOTOS:
Conference
Photo Album
RELATED VIDEO:
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Panel 1: Laying the Foundation |
Panel 2: Proposals for Reform |
Panel 3: Implementing Reform |
Symposium Media Coverage
Oct. 8, 2007
A number of media outlets followed the debate. William Banks, INSCT director, was interviewed by Andrea Seabrook for NPR's All Things Considered. He was also quoted in the Washington Times in "General acted to resolve conflict", interviewed in the Syracuse Post-Standard, by WUSA-TV, 9 News this Morning, Congressional Quarterly Daily, and CQ Homeland Security.
New Battlefields/Old Laws is made possible through the generous support of the Paul Greenberg Foundation.
