Jelena Pejic is a practitioner and scholar of international humanitarian law (IHL). She was a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at the US Military Academy at West Point and was the Institute’s Lieber Scholar for 2023. She is a Member of the Board of Editors at Just Security and also serves on the Board of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights. Ms. Pejic was previously a Senior Legal Adviser in the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, during which time she dealt with a range of issues related to the protection of persons under IHL and other bodies of international law, including detention.