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5 Amsterdam L.F. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/amslawf5 and id is 1 raw text is: AMSTERDAM LAW FORUM VIU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM Editorial Conference Planning and New Edition Sander Couch The passing of one year and the beginning of the next one are stereotypical moments for reflection. Reflection upon not just what has been, but also what is to be in, for example, the all too human field of armed conflict. While the past will be left for others to dwell upon, I would like to bring focus to the future immediately ahead of us. The internal strife in Syria continues with the passing of each day, having seemingly lost its international problem- solving momentum of late 2012. With a hardly definable and foreseeable end, calling into questions its justifiable existence, the 'war on terror' shows little sign of subsiding and relieving the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen. Almost exactly ten years after the commencing of Operation Iraqi Liberation, later renamed Operation Iraqi Freedom, stability remains the sought-after commodity in much of the Middle East. And even though many an armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa fails to make international headlines on a daily basis, their absence from such headlines ought not to be mistaken for their absence entirely. The keen reader will have noticed how all of the conflicts here listed are of an intra-national character and for a substantial part involve non-state actors, in the case of the 'war on terror' only sporadically manifesting its inter-national and state-actor nature. This, of course, tells only part of the empirical armed-conflict track record. Or is North Korea not embarking on a classical inter-national escalation of hostilities and are the prime actors in the South China Sea and Persian Gulf island grabs not simply a number of state officials: This increase in complexity and this diversification of armed conflict over time, as described authoritatively by Mary Kaldor, has made some question the adequacy of our current legal framework meant to deal with such situations. 'Invented' in times when armed conflict was primarily an affair among the armed forces of any number of states, ius ad bellum, ius in bello, human rights and the like are said incapable by design for dealing with the complexity of armed conflict nowadays. Such an assertion can be investigated by taking a number of different disciplinary approaches; an example of the legalistic approach being the excellent symposium organised by the T. M. C. Asser Instituut on the 10tH and 1 th of January of this year. While recognising the value of such specialist endeavours, Amsterdam Law Forum ascribes to the values of an interdisciplinary approach. A fuller, richer and more comprehensive understanding is believed to arise when investigating a single social phenomenon through a broad range of academically coloured lenses. Therefore, Amsterdam Law Forum has committed itself to conduct an interdisciplinary investigation of the legal implications of the New War Thesis. We are proud to inform you that on the 12t3 of June 2013, we will welcome a number of experts in the fields of history, political sciences and law as well as a number of representatives of civil society to reflect on the legal implications of the alleged changing

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