CONFLICT IN SYRIA. Editorial: Conflict in Syria: Finding hope amid the ruins, Vicent Bernard, Editor-in-Chief. Interview with Peter Maurer, President of the ICR. VOICES AND PERSPECTIVES. Photo gallery: The Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the International Committee of the Red Cross; a true partnership to help the most vulnerable. Syria; The human cost of war. OPINION NOTE: The fragility of community security in Damascus and its environs, , Yassar Abdin. Mental health during the Syrian crisis: How Syrians are dealing with the psychological effects, Mazen Hedar.  Weaponizing monuments, Ross Burns. LAW AND PROTECTION. Crossing the red line: The use of chemical weapons in Syria and what should happen now, Yasmin Naqvi.  Islamic law and international humanitarian law: An introduction to the main principles, Ahmed Al-Dawoody. THE WAY FORWARD. From a model of peace to a model of conflict: The effect of architectural modernization on the Syrian urban and social make-up, Marwa Al-Sabouni.  Protecting cultural property in Syria: New opportunities for State to enhance compliance with international law?, Polina Levina Mahnad. SELECTED ARTICLES. **Safe areas**: The international legal framework, Emanuela-Chiara Gillard. A universal treaty for disasters? Remarks on the International Law Commission´s Draft Articles on the Protection of Personas in the Event of Disasters, Giulio Bartolini. Naval robots and rescue, Robert Sparrow, Rob McLaughlin and Mark Howard.  REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS. Emerging military technologies applied to urban warfare,. ICRC, Programme on the Regulation of Emerging Military Technologies, Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, 21-22 March 2018. The laws of war are our shield against barbarity.  Speech given by ICR President Peter Maurer to the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, 26 February 2018.   BOOKS AND ARTICLES. NEW PUBLICATION. The updated commentaries on the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict. Edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes and Nahla Valji. Book review by Gillian Wylie. New publications in international humanitarian law and on the International Committee of the Red Cross. 

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