Nicola Perugini

• University of Edinburgh

The law of war allows, or at least tolerates, the killing of civilians not directly participating in an armed conflict, but the killing must not be “excessive” in relation to the “concrete and direct” military advantage that the belligerent expects to gain from the attack. This rule, known as the principle of proportionality, is designed to ensure...

Assaults on hospitals have become part of a widespread warfare strategy, propelling numerous actors to claim that belligerents are not being held accountable for attacking medical units. Acknowledging that international humanitarian law (IHL) offers medical units protections, belligerents often claim that the hospitals were being used to shield mil...

In this article, I analyze the emergence of a new discourse among Jewish settlers during the 2005–2006 Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank. I define this new discourse as settler colonial inversions – the mimic transformation of the settler subject into the indigene, and of the Palestinian indigene into t...

This paper interrogates the relationship among visibility, distinction, international humanitarian law and ethics in contemporary theatres of violence. After introducing the notions of “civilianization of armed conflict” and “battlespaces”, we briefly discuss the evisceration of one of international humanitarian law's axiomatic figures: the civilia...

In the summer of 2015, the three of us met to research the Muqata’as, the one in Ramallah and the others that were built in Mandate Palestine. Constructed by the British, the buildings constitute the first security system to be established after the fall of the Ottoman empire. They are also known as Tegart forts, named after Sir Charles Tegart, the...

The overlap between production of humanitarian images and interventions in contexts of natural and man-made catastrophes is growing on a global scale. An increasingly close relationship exists between image production, news production and humanitarian industry. In this article, we argue that this process is transforming the meaning of the social, p...

The Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) is part of a long-term project that deals with the spatial complexities of decolonization through an interrogation of the relationships between law, spatial production and colonial practices in Palestine and Israel. A significant body of DAAR’s work attempts to reveal how the operation of Israeli s...

Human shields were prominent in the 2016 military campaign seeking to recapture Mosul from the hands of ISIS militants. On October 24, 2016, Pope Francis expressed his concern over the use of over two hundred boys and men as human shields in the Iraqi city. In an election rally the following day, Donald Trump decried the enemy's use of “ human shie...

In this paper, we use Israel/Palestine as a case study to examine the politics of human shielding, while focusing on the epistemic and political operations through which the deployment of the legal category of human shield legitimizes the use of lethal force. After offering a concise genealogy of human shields in international law, we examine the w...

Since world war II, massive processes of standardisaton in the normative definition, in the production of knowledge, and in the “management” measures concerning refugees have been developing within the framework of a constant legislative refinement at both the European and global level. Drawing on a recent fieldwork carried out in Italy inside a pe...

AlmaTourism N.1 (2010) : The recovery of historical paths for tourism as tool for social and territorial development: the Palestian case of Battir www.almatourism.cib.unibo.it 57 " A man who goes on a sarha 1 wanders aimlessly, not restricted by time and place, going where his spirit takes him to nourish his soul and rejuvenate himself. » (Raja She...