Read more and listen to all podcast episodes: bit.ly/BCCInConversation

What is ‘civilian harm’, and how should it be understood in contemporary warfare? Why do definitions matter, and who gets to shape them? Our guests discuss about evolving approaches to defining and addressing harm to civilians.

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📢 Ep5 of S2 of #BeyondComplianceInConversation podcast out now - "Civilian Harm" #CivilianHarm #IHL

With hosts
@katharinefortin.bsky.social

&
@weigand.bsky.social

🎧 Listen on our website: beyond-compliance-consortium.org/s2-ep5-civil...
Also on Spotify and ApplePodcasts.

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What is ‘civilian harm’, and how should it be understood in contemporary warfare? Why do definitions matter, and who gets to shape them? Our guests discuss about evolving approaches to defining and addressing harm to civilians.

➤ PART I: 10:00-12:00 GMT (findings from #DRC #Yemen #Somalia #Syria)
➤ PART II: 13:30-15:30 GMT (findings from #Colombia #Ukraine #Myanmar #SouthSudan)
➤ Interpretation during the event in Arabic, French, Spanish and Ukrainian

ONE WEEK TO GO! 🗓 26 March - 10-12pm and 1.30-3.30pm GMT - Join the "Global Virtual Event of the Beyond Compliance Consortium: Emergent Themes Across Eight Contexts of Armed Conflict" where we will share preliminary findings from our empirical research.

Register at: bit.ly/BCC-global-virtual-event

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📢 Ep4 of S2 of #BeyondComplianceInConversation podcast out now - "Domicide & Reparations" #Domicide #Reparations #IHL

With hosts
@katharinefortin.bsky.social

&
@weigand.bsky.social

🎧 Listen on our website: beyond-compliance-consortium.org/s2-ep4-domic...
Also on Spotify and ApplePodcasts.

📢 NEW article in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law "The Beyond Compliance Approach: Centering Harm + Need Towards Full(er) Protection in Armed Conflict". The article builds the conceptual scaffolding of the Beyond Compliance Consortium's research programme.

👉Read here: bit.ly/BCC-Article

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📢 Ep3 of S2 of #BeyondComplianceInConversation podcast out now - "Sanctions" #Sanctions #Conflict #IHL

With hosts
@katharinefortin.bsky.social

&
@weigand.bsky.social

🎧 Listen on our website: beyond-compliance-consortium.org/s2-ep3-sanct...
Also on Spotify and ApplePodcasts.

The words disharmony + reharmonisation translate the interrelated notions of harm and reparation into the Nasa Indigenous vernacular (nasa yuwe). By centering on these concepts, this conversation aims to shed light on the Nasa Indigenous people's multidimensional experience of violence.

Researchers will converse with José Vicente Chocué Medina, a Nasa Indigenous authority of Pueblo Nuevo, ancestral territory of Sa’th Tama Kiwe, Caldono, and María Socorro Granda Abella, a researcher affiliated with the Autonomous Intercultural Indigenous University, UAIIN-CRIC (Cauca).

📅 Join our Colombia country research unit in conversation with guests about the meaning of disharmony + reharmonisation in the context of the transitional justice process in #Colombia. Hybrid - Fri 27 Feb, 13:00-14:30 GMT, University of York and Online

👉 Register: bit.ly/BCC-Cafe-27Feb26

The submission is based upon long-term engagement in the region and empirical research conducted by the BCC’s Myanmar team in Myanmar and Northern Thailand between January and April 2025.

👉 Read more: bit.ly/accountabili...

Image of vehicle wreckage in Myanmar. Image credit: Florian Weigand, Beyond Compliance Consortium.

On 15th December 2025, the Beyond Compliance Consortium responded to a call for submissions from the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, to inform the Special Rapporteur’s forthcoming conference room paper on accountability for grave human rights violations in #Myanmar

The data brief outlines key trends in violent events, fatalities, and provides both a thematic and actor-based descriptive analysis of violence trends across time and space in #Myanmar.

📢 📢This report is issue No.2 in our new #BeyondCompliancePaperSeries: bit.ly/Beyond-Compliance-Paper-Series

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📢NEW “Data Brief: Mapping Trends on Harm + Need in Myanmar". Presents a quantitative overview of violent events + conflict dynamics in #Myanmar, drawing on ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data) from 2010-2024.

👉 Download the data brief here: bit.ly/BCC-Paper-Series-No2

Phase 2 of "Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to prevent harm and need in conflict" is hosted by "Armed Groups and International Law" blog

#IHL #IHRL #HarmAndNeed #ArmedConflict

Displaced people with their belongings inside a black van on their way to Syria. The top of the van carries their belongings.

New blog post! The current legal framework treats conflict displacement too narrowly, leaving many harms unseen and unaccountable. Sarah Khan calls for “full(er) protection” using a harm+need lens to move beyond legal compliance and better address displacement.

Read all at: bit.ly/blog_symposium
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Phase 2 of "Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to prevent harm and need in conflict" is hosted by "Armed Groups and International Law" blog

#IHL #IHRL #HarmAndNeed #ArmedConflict

Somalia. Mogadishu, Zobe junction. Residents clean up debris at the site of two twin explosions that occured on the 29th October 2022. The attack killed 121 people and injured hundreds.

New blog post! In the absence of effective state protection, Somali communities have developed sophisticated self-protection systems. This post shows how communities respond to harm+need beyond visible violence, through community-led mechanisms.

Read all at: bit.ly/blog_symposium
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Phase 2 of "Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to prevent harm and need in conflict" is hosted by "Armed Groups and International Law" blog

#IHL #IHRL #HarmAndNeed #ArmedConflict

Ituri province, Djugu territory, Nizi. A farmer cultivates his field after receiving ICRC seeds to revive his farming activity. The sixty-year-old has experienced various episodes of conflict and violence that have left indelible marks on his life, including the loss of one of his sons.

New blog post! Too often overlooked in conflict settings, older persons face distinct forms of harm and need. This blog calls for a more inclusive reading of harm + need beyond standard humanitarian metrics, to support meaningful protection.

Read all at: bit.ly/blog_symposium
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📢 Ep2 of S2 of #BeyondComplianceInConversation podcast out now - "Famines & Starvation" #Famine #Starvation #Conflict #IHL

With hosts
@katharinefortin.bsky.social

&
@weigand.bsky.social

🎧 Listen on our website: beyond-compliance-consortium.org/s2-ep2-famin...
Also on Spotify and ApplePodcasts.

Phase 2 of "Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to prevent harm and need in conflict" is hosted by "Armed Groups and International Law" blog

#IHL #IHRL #HarmAndNeed #ArmedConflict

Two young children in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, outside a transit and orientation center for children who were associated with armed forces and armed groups. They are looking at a painting on the wall which says in Swahili “I can also help my country by going back to school”.

New blog post! Although child recruitment is prohibited, IHL and IHRL do not fully capture harms experienced by children or the intergenerational norms shaping recruitment and reintegration in the DRC. Broader social, cultural, and economic analysis is required.
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Text: Beyond Compliance Newsletter Issue #3 July - November 2025

📰 NEWSLETTER! We are delighted to publish our third Beyond Compliance Consortium Newsletter. This issue provides a roundup of research progress, the latest events, resources & publications, and news from member and partner organisations (July-Nov 2025)

👉 Read issue 2 here: bit.ly/BCC-Newslett...

Phase 2 of "Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to prevent harm and need in conflict" is hosted by "Armed Groups and International Law" blog

#IHL #IHRL #HarmAndNeed #ArmedConflict

A beekeeper in Tartus Governorate, Banias, Syria, 2021. Many households depend on beekeeping in Tartus region. The sector suffers from the current crisis because of the pressure of inflation on equipment and transportation prices, and because of security issues.

New blog post! Unilateral sanctions often hit civilians the hardest — and private overcompliance blocks even permitted aid out of fear. @mohammadkanfash.bsky.social shows this in Syria, raising tough questions about accountability and complicity.
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Read all at: bit.ly/blog_symposium