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Chair: Dr Amanda Chisholm, Senior Lecturer in Security Studies / Researcher in Gender and Security, School of Security Studies
Speaker: Francisco Lobo, Doctoral Researcher at the Department of War Studies
Legal scholars have been engaged for over a decade in what is known as the 'capture or kill' debate, which revolves around the existence (or not) of a legal obligation to refrain from killing a legitimate military target if capture is also possible. Drawing on this debate, in this seminar Francisco Lobo will explore the interplay between some legal principles of the Law of Armed Conflict, namely military necessity and humanity. The article attempts to endow the principle of humanity with a normative content of its own, based on traditional military honour and contemporary views of human dignity. Finally, it underscores the importance of military training and education for instilling humanitarian values in soldiers.
Speaker bio
Francisco Lobo is a Doctoral Researcher at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. His thesis focuses on professional military ethics, human rights, and human dignity. He holds a law degree from the University of Chile. He also holds an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University (sponsored by the Fulbright Commission), and a Master of Laws specializing in International Law from the University of Chile.
He is a lecturer of International Law, Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, and Legal Theory, in Santiago of Chile. He has worked as an NYU Fellow of International Law and Human Rights at the International Law Commission of the United Nations (2018), where he assisted the Special Rapporteur on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (ius cogens), in New York and Geneva. He has also worked as a legal advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile (2019-2020).
His research interests include International Law, Human Rights, the Law of Armed Conflict and the Just War tradition, and International Criminal Law, as well as a multidisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of violence from the perspective of history, philosophy and ethics.
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