The 2006 Israel-Lebanon war generated the first large-scale and systemA,A!ic references to a heretofore mostly ignored law of war concept, the doctrine of proportionality. Occasional references to ...

The concept, important for determining the legality of an act of war, is about weighing civilian harm against military objectives, not about achieving a balanced number of casualties. By Steven ...

This report provides an account of the debates that took place during a meeting of international experts co-organized by the ICRC and Université Laval (Quebec) in June 2016 in Quebec. The subject ...

Figure 1: Schematic representation of the progression from CO 2 emissions to climate change.

Abstract: Taguchi's philosophy of quality improvement is quite unique and challenging. Traditionally, quality management focused on conformance to specifications within a given range. In Taguchi's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jill Goldenziel writes & consults on security, law, & business risk. Proportionality in war does not mean balancing number of ...

Israel's military operation in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed thousands of buildings, and severely restricted the supply of food. The operation was launched after Hamas ...

LET’S TALK about proportionality—or, more important, about its negative form. “Disproportionate” is the favorite critical term in current discussions of the morality of war. But most of the people who ...

The hoary doctrine of “proportionality” from the “just war” theory is being sorely tested by the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. The premise of this theory, as first expounded in the West by ...

Underlining that the restrictions on free speech by the electoral bonds scheme are not “proportional” to its goal, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice of ...

More decorators working on a job would reduce the time to complete the task. They are inversely proportional. If two quantities are inversely proportional, one increases as the other decreases at the ...