Does a ceasefire agreement have any legal force? Dr Marika Sosnowski explains

Melbourne Law School and host Jon Faine bring you Justice: a weekly podcast about the law behind the news.There is a legal vacuum behind attempts to forge a ceasefire inthe wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Does international law have any real power in these times of global turmoil? And how can a ceasefire agreement be enforced when one party is a ‘non-state entity’? Dr Marika Sosnowski from the Peter McMullinCentre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School explains. READ MORE ON CEASEFIRES: Why did the Israel-Hamas ceasefire fall apart? It was never going to solve the root causes of the conflictKnown Unknowns: or the things that you thought you knew about a ceasefire in Gaza that it turns out you did notUkraine Symposium – Lessons from Syria’s CeasefiresBesiege, bombard, retake: Reconciliation agreements in Syria