To mark the 150th anniversary of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), we are pleased to offer complimentary access to the most-cited articles in 2012 from the International Review of the Red Cross

You can access these articles without charge until the 15th of June 2013 by following this link


A sense of self-perceived collective victimhood in intractable conflicts

Daniel Bar-Tal, Lily Chernyak-Hai, Noa Schori and Ayelet Gundar

The equal application of the laws of war: a principle under pressure

Adam Roberts

Organized crime and gang violence in national and international law

Pierre Hauck and Sven Peterke

Can jus ad bellum override jus in bello? Reaffirming the separation of the two bodies of law

Jasmine Moussa

 Water, international peace, and security

Mara Tignino

Transfers of detainees: legal framework, non-refoulement and contemporary challenges

Cordula Droege

Asymmetrical war and the notion of armed conflict – a tentative conceptualization

Andreas Paulus and Mindia Vashakmadze

Women, armed conflict and language – Gender, violence and discourse

Laura J. Shepherd

Understanding gangs as armed groups

Jennifer M. Hazen

Timelines, borderlines and conflicts

Rogier Bartels

The ethos–practice gap: perceptions of humanitarianism in Iraq

Greg Hansen

Territorial gangs and their consequences for humanitarian players

Oliver Bangerter

Taking care to protect the environment against damage: a meaningless obligation?

Karen Hulme

Taking care to protect the environment against damage: a meaningless obligation?

Karen Hulme

Suicide attacks and Islamic law

Muhammad Munir

Military operations in urban areas

Alexandre Vautravers

Iraq's refugees: ignored and unwanted

Andrew Harper

From helplessness to agency: examining the plurality of women's experiences in armed conflict

Medina Haeri and Nadine Puechguirbal

Facilitating humanitarian assistance in international humanitarian and human rights law

Rebecca Barber

Between rhetoric and reality: exploring the impact of military humanitarian intervention upon s_e_x_u_a_l violence – post-conflict s_e_x trafficking in Kosovo

Samantha T. Godec

Lost in translation: UN responses to s-e-x-u=a-l violence against men and boys in situations of armed conflict

Sandesh Sivakumaran

Aspects of victim participation in the proceedings of the International Criminal Court

Elisabeth Baumgartner