armed conflict

I am Laura Odom Mendoza.

I am an international lawyer specializing in human rights and the challenges that emerge in contexts of armed conflict.

So for more than 13 years, I have worked primarily on Colombia, examining these issues from the perspectives of government, international organizations, academia, and the justice sector.

My academic work carried out as part of my PhD focuses on the complex relationship between armed conflict and the environment.

In particular, I study how armed actors relate to the natural environment and how their interactions shape environmental outcomes during war.

And more recently, I was part of the drafting team for the ICC Office of the Prosecutor's Policy paper on environmental damage.

Thanks so much, Laura.

Thanks for also in a very clear way explaining just how complex this is, both in terms of the complexity of the actor, but also the complexity of their actions and how they should be seen, framed, understood, and responded to.

The army and what we need and fighting Hamas, et cetera, and a lot of successes militarily, but at the same time, a total defeat on the international and public opinion level because we don't have a fighting entity, neither Israel or the United States.

I think that is the main conclusion right now because we keep losing the soft war and winning the kinetic war.

Today's guest is someone who has had a remarkable view of the Israeli story from several very different vantage points.

Yossi Hollander was there near the beginning of what we now call Startup Nation.

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So getting back to, so they have an entity for soft war or non-kinetic war or cognitive war, whatever you want to call it.

Basically all the war that you don't shoot.