After having arranged last year’s edition online due to the pandemic, it is with great pleasure that the Military Department could host the 20th edition of the distinguished IHL Competition for Military Academies back at the Institute from 21th –...

This Monday 7th March, the Director of the Military Department Colonel Mark Dakers had opened the Rules of Engagement Course for Sri Lankan Armed Forces in Colombo, Sri Lanka.  Over the following five days, the 30 participants examined the relationship...

The International Institute of Humanitarian Law is an independent institution with the mission to promote dissemination, application and the development of international humanitarian law, refugee law, migration law and human rights. In fifty years, since its creation, thousands of military...

On  7th February, the President of the Institute Professor Edoardo Greppi and Deputy Secretary-General Gian Luca Beruto were invited to take part at the Opening Ceremony of the III edition of the Master Course in “Cultural Property Protection in Crisis...

Unfortunately, the Military Department has to postpone the 3rd Legal Delivery of Effects Online Course, which was scheduled to be running from 10 January to 16 February 2022. The Department apologises for this, but the aim is to offer the...

Unfortunately, the Military Department has to postpone the 3rd Legal Delivery of Effects Online Course, which was scheduled to be running from 10 January to 16 February 2022.The Department apologises for this, but the aim is to offer the course...

On 15 December Col Mark Dakers, Director of the Military Department attended an event at the War Museum in Athens to launch Greece’s newly published Law of Armed Conflict Manual. The Manual has been written by the legal team from...

On Saturday, December 11, 2021, the third course on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law for the officers of the G5 Sahel joint force began at the Peacekeeping School in Bamako, Mali. Co-organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for...

From 22-26 November the Military Department delivered an online course on operationalising the law of armed conflict to legal advisers from the three armed services of the Sri Lankan Tri Forces and Ministry of Defence. The event was arranged on...