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The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross ( Vol. 91, no. 877, march 2010) focusing on Women is out. The Journal is also available from Cambridge Journals Online. Here is a summary of the theme:

Over the centuries, our perception of the main actors in warfare has been shaped by stereotypes of […]

 Missing Lives

British photographer Nick Danziger and Canadian writer Rory MacLean joined the efforts in documenting  the plight of 15 families selected among thousands still waiting for news of the fate of their loved ones from the countries of fromer Yugoslavia, entangled in the regional conflicts during 1990s.  The efforts culminated in a book, which promotes […]

Big red book, as some prefer to refer to it, consisting of 2 volumes of Rules (Vol.I) and Practice(Vol.II parts 1 and 2) in IHL has now been made available online (access: here). The online version of the practice contains the updates undertaken by  a team of lawyers based at the Lauterpacht Centre for International […]

Good news! ICRC is planning the new edition of the seminal Commentaries to Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols. The project, however, has not yet started and may take up to 6 years to complete. Meanwhile ICRC is looking for the Head to lead the updating project. Further details regarding the post can be found here.

A new issue of Journal of Conflict and Security Law (Summer 2010; Vol. 15, No. 2 ) is now available online and constains the following pieces:
 

Nigel D WhiteEditorialShane Darcy and John Reynolds‘Otherwise Occupied’: The Status of the Gaza Strip from the Perspective of International Humanitarian LawSome Reflections on the International Legal Framework Governing Transnational Armed […]

Volumes 21 and 29 of the International Humanitarian Law Series published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers are now available. 

Volume 21 entitled Violations of the Rules Applicable in Non-International Armed Conflicts and Their Possible Causes The Case of Somalia by  Omar Abdulle Alasow has just been published. Here’s the abstract:

While all armed conflicts are […]

With 2008 Cluster Munition Convention  entering into force only last Sunday (as previously noted here), OUP is planning to publish an extensive and useful commentary to the treaty.

The Convention on Cluster Munitions A Commentary, Edited by Gro Nystuen and Stuart Casey-Maslen is due to be available in October 2010.

According to the publishers:
 
This Commentary on the […]

GENEVA, 9 July 2010 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced today that its annual Nansen Refugee Award will go to Alixandra Fazzina, a British photojournalist whose work documents the often overlooked consequences of war.

On learning of the award Fazzina said, “I am overwhelmed and absolutely delighted to have been recognized by […]

Counterinsurgency by David Kilcullen

From the publishers:

David Kilcullen is one of the world’s most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war powerfully influenced America’s decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement “the Surge,” now recognized as a dramatic success.

In […]