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Updates and Latest Activities
Meeting of the NATO Partnership Training and Education Centres (PTECs)
2 April 2019The Institute is taking part at the 2019 Commandants Conference of the Partnership Training and Education Centres organised in Brasov, Romania, from 1 to 4 April 2019, and hosted by the Romanian Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies (DRESMARA)....
Competition on IHL for Military Academies
28 March 2019The 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,...
Registration is open for this year’s International Disaster Law course (Sanremo, 17–21 June 2019)
14 March 2019The Institute is pleased to inform that the 6th International Disaster Law Course will take place in Sanremo from 17th to 21st June 2019. More info and registration form on the course webpage. The course is jointly organized by the...
Peace Support Operations course in Jinja, Uganda
21 February 2019For 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
6 February 2019The 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...
United Nations Global Compact
15 January 2019The International Institute of Humanitarian Law became recently an official member of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. Through a letter to Professor Pocar, President of the Institute, the Executive Director of the initiative thanked...
First course on IHL and Human Rights for the G-5 Sahel
3 December 2018The 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
30 November 2018From 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...
Proceedings of the 2018 Sanremo Round Table now available
2 November 2018The presentations delivered during the last Sanremo Round Table (6-8 September 2018) on “Deprivation of Liberty and Armed Conflicts: exploring realities and remedies” are now available in PDF for consultation here. The few that are missing will follow shortly. The Round...
