Targeted to students, the IHL team hosts annual contests throughout the academic year to engage and excite students, inspiring them to bring their creative thinking to topics related to IHL.
Targeted to students, the IHL team hosts annual contests throughout the academic year to engage and excite students, inspiring them to bring their creative thinking to topics related to IHL.
The Clara Barton Competition is an annual simulation-based, experiential legal competition designed to expose rising professionals to the practice of IHL and to real world challenges facing IHL practitioners during armed conflict. Participants will engage in a variety of practical role-playing exercises, during which they will be asked to assume various professional roles and accomplish a wide range of tasks reflective of those performed by practitioners in the field. The Competition will test participants’ knowledge of international humanitarian law and public international law, as well as their ability to present, advocate for, and defend legal positions to a diverse range of stakeholders in different simulated environments.
This competition occurs annually in March and is open to law students and cadets from US military academies.
The American Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Art and Essay Competition challenges participants with creating thoughtful and insightful entries around a specific IHL theme. Although the nature of each essay or art submission is up to the creator, entrants are asked to explore topics within the theme including how the engagement in outer space by public and private actors is regulated by international law.
The IHL JROTC Youth Action Competition is a free program that fulfills the JROTC service project requirement and will cultivate leadership, personal responsibility, critical thinking and citizenship for participating teams. This competition teaches cadets about the laws of war and gives them the tools to spread awareness in their community through rewarding, creative campaigns.
All JROTC Branches, including Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard, are eligible. Cadets form teams with classmates and take American Red Cross training on International Humanitarian Law—the law that governs armed conflict—and develop an outreach campaign in their communities to raise awareness about the rules of war.
The Annual International Humanitarian Law Youth Action Campaign Pin Contest is open to students who are current American Red Cross volunteers and participants in the IHL Youth Action Campaign. Participants submit art that reflect this year's IHL theme and the top designs will be voted on by current IHL YAC Participants globally.
The winning design will be made into the official annual IHL YAC pin, which will be produced and distributed to Red Cross IHL YAC volunteers around the world!