Targeted to youth and young adults, 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 youth and young adults, 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 is proud to announce the 5th Annual International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Art and Essay Competition. This annual event challenges participants to thoughtfully apply IHL, the body of international law governing armed conflict, to a specific theme. This year, participants are invited to explore the theme of Space Law and the implications of Armed Conflict in outer space. The competition is open to students in 8th through 12th grade, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and law school. Winners in each category receive $100 gift card and have their work published in the annual IHL Magazine. Submissions will be accepted from Friday, November 1, 2024 through Friday, January 31, 2025. The competition is open to all U.S. citizens, regardless of location, and foreign nationals residing in the United States, overseas U.S. military bases or U.S. territories.
Announcing the winning design of the 2nd Annual IHL Youth Action Campaign pin design competition created by Finley Endres - Youth Action Campaign Advocate from the Central and South Texas Region!
The winning designs reflected this year's campaign theme of Nuclear Weapons and Armed Conflict and the story of Sadako Sasaki and their paper cranes. This was voted on by current Youth Action Campaign Advocates and will be produced into this year's official pin.