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To commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the The Hague Rules of 1907, a distinguished team of scholars and practitioners will debate the rules of warfare.  Are the traditional laws and norms of armed conflict sufficient guides in asymmetric war - where weaker combatants use strategies and tactics outside the rules to offset their military disadvantage?

 

 

John Bellinger's Challenge To Academia

U.S. State Department Legal Advisor John Bellinger delivered a lecture at Oxford University on December 10, 2007 highlighting the shortfalls of the existing law of war to adequately regulate armed conflict between states and transnational non-state groups.  He asserted a challenge to academia stating, "I hope that the scholarly debate in this area will move beyond assertions that all that is needed is better implementation of existing law, and instead work will begin in earnest on addressing the difficult challenges I have identified."  His full remarks are available here.

 

INSCT & S.U. Magazine

Syracuse University Chancellor and President Dr. Nancy Cantor highlighted the New Battlefield's Project in her message in the Fall 2007 edition of Syracuse University Magazine citing its recent "national visibility" and that it supports the "ideals of Scholarship in Action."

 

Symposium Media Coverage, Oct. 8, 2007

A number of media outlets followed the debate. William Banks, INSCT Director and College of Law Professor 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.

 

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, appeared on the Washington-area program "Federal News Now" to discuss the project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Battlefields/Old Laws is made possible through the generous support of the Paul Greenberg Foundation.

   
 
 
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