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The History and Politics of Human Shields

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Project "HPHS" data sheet

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Coordinator	QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Organization address address: 327 MILE END ROAD city: LONDON postcode: E1 4NS website: http://www.qmul.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Total cost	195˙454 €
EC max contribution	195˙454 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2015
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-01-01 to 2019-12-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Organization address address: 327 MILE END ROAD city: LONDON postcode: E1 4NS website: http://www.qmul.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (LONDON)	coordinator	195˙454.00
2	SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER Organization address address: THORNHAUGH STREET RUSSEL SQUARE city: LONDON postcode: WC1H OXG website: www.soas.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (LONDON)	participant	0.00

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Project objective

This project aims to examine the history and politics of human shields, a growing phenomenon related to the increasing “weaponization” of human bodies and the fact that urban settings have increasingly become common sites for contemporary conflicts. Human shielding denotes the deployment of civilians in order to deter attacks on military sites as well as their transformation into a technology of warfare. While the majority of the scholarly literature characterizes human shielding as the “weapon of the weak,” one of my assumptions is that the category of human shields is also becoming a weapon deployed by the strong to justify the increasing number of civilian deaths in the battlefield. The legal significance of human shields emerges from the fact that civilians who are defined as shields lose some of the protections traditionally assigned to them by international law. Human shields, I propose, can be a weapon for those who use them, but also for those who accuse the enemy of using them. I hypothesize: 1) that the diverse situations in which civilians become shields and the specific way they are categorized shape our understanding of both the violence deployed and its ethical significance; and 2) that the different kinds of human shields operate in distinct ways and serve radically different military and political purposes. Accordingly, I will pursue two objectives: 1) offer a historical-legal investigation of human shielding, thus facilitating our understanding of the military and ethical function of this legal category; and 2) identify and theorize the various forms of human shielding currently being utilized in theatres of violence, both to improve our understanding of the diverse contexts in which human shields appear and to demonstrate how the conception of human shields shapes our perceptions of violence. Ultimately, HPHS hopes to contribute to research on political violence and EU’s obligations to international law.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Neve Gordon, Nicola Perugini â€˜Hospital Shieldsâ€™ and the Limits of International Law published pages: 439-463, ISSN: 0938-5428, DOI: 10.1093/ejil/chz029	European Journal of International Law 30/2	2020-02-04
2019	Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon Between Sovereignty and Race: The Bombardment of Hospitals in the Italo-Ethiopian War and the Colonial Imprint of International Law published pages: 104-125, ISSN: 2046-6064, DOI:	State Crime 2 per year	2020-02-04

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