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War, Peace and Human Rights
The Budapest Memorandum and the Nuclear Arsenal Ukraine Gave Up What Ukraine got in 1994 for giving up the third-largest nuclear arsenal, why it got assurances, not guarantees, and what that teaches about nonproliferation. Barbara Lee's Lone Vote Against the 2001 War Authorization On September 14, 2001, Barbara Lee cast the only vote against the war authorization. How that 60-word law was stretched for twenty years, and what her dissent got right. Conditioning Military Aid and the Old Argument Over Leverage on Allies When Ronald Reagan suspended cluster munitions shipments to Israel in 1982, he joined a long American argument: should military aid to partners come with conditions, and does leverage ever work? Distinction, Proportionality, Precaution: The Rules That Govern Every Strike The three core targeting rules of the laws of war, where they came from in 1949 and 1977, and why they bind every army and armed group equally, whatever the cause. Henry Dunant at Solferino and the Founding of the Red Cross How a Genevan businessman who stumbled onto the battlefield of Solferino in 1859 wrote the book that created the Red Cross and the first Geneva Convention, and why his idea still matters. Hostage-Taking Is a War Crime, and the Law Behind the Families' Campaign From the families in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square to the Geneva Conventions: why taking hostages is forbidden to every party in every war, how the rule was built, and where its edges are argued. Rebuilding Gaza After the October 2025 Ceasefire and Who Pays for It The October 2025 ceasefire stopped most of the shooting. How big Gaza's rebuilding job is, who has pledged money, and why past pledges went unpaid. Russia's Deportation of Ukrainian Children and the ICC Warrant for Putin Why the ICC's March 2023 warrant for Vladimir Putin is about children, what the law says about moving children in war and what it takes to bring them home. South Africa's Genocide Case at the ICJ and What Provisional Measures Mean What the World Court actually ordered in South Africa v. Israel on January 26, 2024, what it did not decide, and how a genocide case moves from emergency orders to a final judgment. Starvation as a Method of War and What International Law Forbids What the law says about starving civilians in war, from Security Council Resolution 2417 to the 2025 famine finding in Gaza City, and how hunger is measured, prohibited and prosecuted. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Two Senators Who Voted No In August 1964 only Wayne Morse and Ernest Gruening voted against the resolution that opened the way to the Vietnam war. What they saw, and what later disclosures showed. The June 2025 Strikes on Iran and the War Powers Question Congress Left Open In June 2025 the US bombed Iran's nuclear sites without asking Congress, and the Senate declined to object. What the law says, what each side argued, and what remains unsettled.