Registration for the Rules of Engagement Course is now open!
The Institute is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Rules of Engagement Course, which will take place in Sanremo from 7 to 11 October 2019. The Course examines the relationship between legal, political, and operational parameters...
Abiertas las inscripciones a los cursos sobre el DIH en español para el año 2019!
El Instituto Internacional de Derecho Humanitario de Sanremo (Italia) ha abierto la inscripción a sus Cursos en español para el año 2019. El 176º Curso Militar Internacional sobre el DIH (con una Clase en portugués) se desarrollará entre el 16...
On the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions: “Whither the human in armed conflict? IHL implications of new technology in warfare”
The 2019 Round Table on current issues of international humanitarian law (IHL), jointly organized by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and the International Committee of the Red Cross, will take place in Sanremo from 4 to 6 September 2019....
Competition on IHL for Military Academies
The 18th edition of the Institute’s traditional and prestigious IHL Competition for Military Academies is currently taking place in Sanremo. This event exposes young military cadets, coming from all over the world and hence possessing different cultural and linguistic backgrounds,...
Peace Support Operations course in Jinja, Uganda
For the second consecutive year the Institute organized its Peace Support Operations course at the Legal Training Centre of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Force in Jinja, Uganda from 11 to 15 February 2019. The course was possible thanks to the...
Cultural Property Protection in Crisis Response: opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of the International Master course in “Cultural Property Protection in Crisis Response“, took place yesterday in Turin at the School of Applied Military Studies of the Italian Army with the participation of Major General Salvatore Cuoci...
First course on IHL and Human Rights for the G-5 Sahel
The International Institute of Humanitarian Law is organizing its first specialized training course on IHL and human rights for officers deployed in the G5 Sahel Joint Force. The course will take place at Villa Ormond, Sanremo from 3 to 14...
Operational realities of detention in armed conflict
From the Humanitarian Law & Policy blog Laurent Saugy and Tilman Rodenhäuser, among the speakers at the last Sanremo Round Table, present five operational realities of detention in contemporary armed conflict. An analyses which focuses on specific detention-related issues which...