A Belgian Integrated Approach to LawFare – towards a defensive and offensive legal strategy in a European and international context

‘Lawfare’ can generally be described as the “(mis)use of law as a weapon” or the application of legal strategies to achieve an (operational) objective. It has become an increasingly popular tactic in the context of modern (hybrid) warfare. The goal of the BIALF project is to devise an integrated legal strategy, both defensive and offensive, for specifically Belgian Defence to deal with particular lawfare risks and opportunities.