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• Title:The law of non-international armed conflict / Sandesh Sivakumaran.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sivakumaran, Sandesh.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
  

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  • Call Number: KZ6397 .S58 2012
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Civil war.
  War (International law)
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xxxvii, 657 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"This book brings together and critically analyzes the disparate conventional, customary, and soft law relating to non-international armed conflict. All the relevant bodies of international law are considered, including international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and international human rights law. The book traces the changes to the legal framework applicable to non-international armed conflict from ad hoc regulation in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, to systematic regulation through the 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Additional Protocols, to the transformation of the law in the mid-1990s. Armed conflicts ranging from the US civil war, the Algerian War of Independence, and the attempted secession of Biafra, through to the current conflicts in the Colombia, Philippines, and Sudan are all considered. The identification and analysis of the law is complemented by a consideration of the practice, allowing both violations of, and respect for, the law, to be ascertained. Given that non-international armed conflicts are fought between states and non-state armed groups, or between armed groups, particular attention is paid to the oft-neglected views of armed groups. This is done through an analysis of hundreds of statements, unilateral declarations, internal regulations, and bilateral agreements issued by armed groups. Equivalent material emanating from states parties to conflicts is also considered. The book is thus an essential reference point for the law and practice of non-international armed conflicts"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [571]-618) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199239795 (hbk.)
  0199239797 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Nature of the law
  Armed groups
  Practice
  Goals
  note to the reader
  pt. I REGULATING NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS
  1. Ad-hoc Regulation
  1. Introduction
  2. Recognition of belligerency
  2.1. concept of recognition
  2.2. Consequences of recognition
  2.3. Instances of recognition
  3. Instructions and agreements
  3.1. Instructions
  3.2. Agreements
  3.3. Advantages and drawbacks
  4. Conclusion
  2. Systematic Regulation through International Humanitarian Law
  1. Introduction
  2. International Committee of the Red Cross and International Conferences of the Red Cross
  3. Diplomatic Conference of 1949
  4. period 1949-74
  5. Diplomatic Conference of 1974-7
  6. Post-1977 initiatives
  7. Conclusion
  3. Regulation through a Body of International Law
  1. Introduction
  2. Drawing on the law of international armed conflict
  2.1. Customary international humanitarian law
  2.2. Conventional international humanitarian law
  2.3. Methodological difficulties with regulation by drawing on the law of international armed conflict
  2.3.1. Scope and content
  2.3.2. Levels of protection
  2.3.3. International and non-international armed conflicts
  3. International criminal law
  3.1. war crimes-international humanitarian law nexus
  3.2. Methodological concerns with the use of war crimes law
  3.2.1. norms
  3.2.2. enforcement function
  4. International human rights law
  4.1. Applicability of international human rights law
  4.2. Application of international human rights law
  4.2.1. Normative content
  4.2.2. Interpretation
  4.2.3. Direct regulation
  5. Conclusion
  4. Sources of the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict
  1. Introduction
  2. traditional sources
  2.1. Treaties
  2.2. Custom
  2.2.1. Methodology
  2.2.2. Customary rules
  3. less traditional `sources'
  3.1. Nature of the commitments
  3.1.1. Propaganda?
  3.1.2. Normative status
  3.1.3. interpretational tool
  3.1.4. Commitments and compliance
  3.2. commitments
  3.2.1. Unilateral declarations
  Declarations of states
  Parallel declarations
  Declarations of national liberation movements
  Declarations of non-state armed groups
  Purported accession
  Declarations to the ICRC
  General declarations
  Declarations on particular rules
  Declarations on human rights law
  3.2.2. Agreements
  Agreements on international humanitarian law
  Agreements on international humanitarian law and human rights law
  Agreements on human rights law
  Other agreements
  3.2.3. Instructions, codes of conduct, and internal regulations
  3.2.4. Legislation
  3.2.5. Other important materials
  Responses to reports of fact-finding missions
  Press releases and other ad hoc statements
  Expressions of motivations for taking up arms
  3.3. Non-exhaustive list of commitments
  4. Conclusion
  pt. II SUBSTANTIVE LAW OF NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT
  5. Identifying a Non-International Armed Conflict: Armed Conflicts and Internal Tensions and Disturbances
  1. Introduction
  2. non-definition approach
  2.1. Diplomatic Conference of 1949
  2.2. Advantages and disadvantages of the lack of definition
  3. definition approach
  3.1. Intensity of violence
  3.2. Organization of the armed group
  3.2.1. Indicia of organization
  3.2.2. Organization in practice
  3.2.3. Responsible command
  3.2.4. Rationale for organization
  3.3. Governmental authorities
  3.4. Non-requisites
  4. Prerequisites for particular rules to apply
  4.1. Protocol II, Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949
  4.1.1. State armed forces
  4.1.2. Organized armed groups and responsible command
  4.1.3. Territorial control
  4.1.4. Sustained and concerted military operations
  4.1.5. Implementation of the Protocol
  4.1.6. Concluding thoughts
  4.2. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
  4.3. Recognition of belligerency
  5. Characterization of the violence
  5.1. decision-maker
  5.2. Recognition of an armed conflict
  5.3. Characterization of the armed group
  5.4. Legal status and legitimacy
  6. Conclusion
  6. Identifying a Non-International Armed Conflict: International and Non-International Armed Conflicts
  1. Introduction
  2. Wars of national liberation
  2.1. Historical regulation
  2.2. Defining wars of national liberation
  3. Outside state intervention
  3.1. Intervention through troops
  3.2. State control over an armed group
  4. Transnational armed conflicts
  5. Conclusion
  7. Scope of Application
  1. Introduction
  2. Personal scope of application
  2.1. Non-state armed groups and conventional international humanitarian law
  2.2. Equality of obligation, reciprocity, and asymmetry
  2.3. Intra-party protection
  3. Geographical scope of application
  4. Temporal scope of application
  8. Protection of Civilians and Persons Hors de Combat
  1. Introduction
  2. Humane treatment
  2.1. principle
  2.2. Non-discrimination
  2.3. Specific prohibitions deriving from the principle of humane treatment
  2.3.1. Violence to life and person
  Murder
  Torture
  Cruel and inhuman treatment
  2.3.2. Outrages upon personal dignity
  2.3.3. Sexual violence
  2.3.4. Slavery and the slave trade
  2.3.5. Taking of hostages
  2.3.6. Collective punishments
  3. Persons benefitting from particular protections
  3.1. Wounded, sick, and shipwrecked
  3.2. Medical and religious personnel
  3.3. Dead persons
  3.4. Missing persons
  3.5. Displaced persons
  3.5.1. Prohibition on forced displacement
  Exceptions to the prohibition on forcible transfer
  Modalities of displacement
  3.5.2. Treatment of internally displaced persons
  3.5.3. Return of internally displaced persons
  3.6. Interned and detained persons
  3.6.1. Obligations to be respected as a minimum
  3.6.2. Obligations dependent on capacity
  3.6.3. Specificities of non-international armed conflict
  3.6.4. Release of prisoners
  3.6.5. Legal basis for security detention/internment
  3.7. Persons subject to the criminal process
  3.7.1. regularly constituted court
  3.7.2. Due process guarantees
  Identifying the obligations
  Content of the obligations
  3.7.3. Capital punishment
  3.8. Journalists
  3.9. Women
  3.10. Children
  3.10.1. General
  3.10.2. Child soldiers
  obligations
  relevant age
  Human rights law
  3.11. Peacekeeping missions
  3.11.1. International humanitarian law protections
  3.11.2. Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel
  3.11.3. Application of international humanitarian law to UN forces
  3.12. Humanitarian assistance missions
  4. Humanitarian assistance
  5. Conclusion
  9. Conduct of Hostilities
  1. Introduction
  2. Targeting
  2.1. Underlying principles
  2.2. Attacks against the civilian population
  2.2.1. Attacks on civilians
  2.2.2. Attacks on civilian objects
  Protections afforded to civilian objects
  2.2.3. Defining civilian objects
  2.3. Indiscriminate attacks
  2.4. Disproportionate attacks
  2.5. Precautions
  2.5.1. Precautions in planning and carrying out attacks
  2.5.2. Precautions against the effects of attacks
  2.6. Beneficiaries of protection
  2.6.1. Context
  2.6.2. Categories of persons
  Members of state armed forces and military wing of armed group
  Civilians taking a direct part in hostilities
  2.6.3. notion of direct participation in hostilities
  Interpretive Guidance
  Types of acts
  2.6.4. Loss of protection
  State armed forces and military wing of armed group
  Civilians taking a direct part in hostilities
  Views of armed groups
  more humanitarian approach?
  2.6.5. Conclusion
  2.7. Investigations relating to losses of life
  2.8. Objects benefiting from particular protections
  2.8.1. Medical units and transports
  2.8.2. Cultural property
  Definition of cultural property
  Application to non-international armed conflict
  protections
  Hague Convention on Cultural Property
  Additional Protocol II
  Second Protocol to the Hague Convention on Cultural Property
  Customary international law
  2.8.3. Dams, dykes, and nuclear electrical generating stations
  2.8.4. Protected zones
  3. Means of combat
  3.1. Introduction
  3.2. general rules
  3.2.1. Unnecessary suffering or superfluous injury
  3.2.2. Discrimination
  3.3. Specifically prohibited weapons
  3.3.1. Poison and poisoned weapons
  3.3.2. Biological and bacteriological weapons
  3.3.3. Gas and chemical weapons
  3.3.4. Incendiary weapons
  3.3.5. Laser weapons designed to cause permanent blindness
  3.3.6. Explosive bullets
  3.3.7. Expanding bullets
  3.3.8. Booby-traps and anti-personnel mines
  Booby-traps
  Anti-personnel mines
  Amended Mines Protocol
  Ottawa Convention
  3.3.9. Cluster munitions
  3.3.10. Non-detectable fragments
  3.3.11. Explosive remnants of war
  4. Methods of combat
  4.1. Denial of quarter
  4.2. Flags of truce and surrender
  4.3. Improper use of emblems and uniforms
  4.3.1. Neutral or protected emblems and uniforms
  4.3.2. Enemy emblems and uniforms
  4.4. Perfidy
  4.5. Human shields
  Contents note continued: 4.5.1. Involuntary human shields
  4.5.2. Voluntary human shields
  4.6. Starvation of civilians
  4.6.1. Starvation
  4.6.2. Objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population
  4.7. Pillage
  4.8. Wanton destruction
  5. Conclusion
  10. Implementation and Non-Judicial Enforcement
  1. Introduction
  2. Internal mechanisms
  2.1. Dissemination
  2.1.1. Importance of dissemination
  2.1.2. States, non-state armed groups, and civilians
  2.1.3. Modalities of dissemination
  2.2. Instruction
  2.3. Legal advice
  2.4. Manuals, codes of conduct, and internal regulations
  2.4.1. State measures
  2.4.2. Non-state armed group measures
  2.5. Unilateral declarations and bilateral agreements
  2.6. Sanctions
  3. Responses to the other side: belligerent reprisals
  3.1. Prohibited belligerent reprisals
  3.2. Restrictions on the use of belligerent reprisals
  3.3. Continued use of belligerent reprisals
  4. Third parties
  4.1. Protecting Powers
  4.2. Fact-finding
  4.2.1. International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
  4.2.2. Other fact-finding initiatives
  4.3. United Nations entities
  4.3.1. Security Council
  4.3.2. General Assembly
  4.3.3. Human rights mechanisms
  4.4. International Committee of the Red Cross
  4.4.1. institution
  4.4.2. Activities
  4.4.3. Modalities
  4.5. Human rights non-governmental organizations
  5. Conclusion
  11. Judicial Enforcement
  1. Introduction
  2. War crimes
  3. International criminal courts and tribunals
  3.1. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
  3.2. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  3.3. International Criminal Court
  3.3.1. Jurisdiction
  3.3.2. Impact
  3.4. Special Court for Sierra Leone
  4. Domestic criminal courts
  4.1. 1860s to mid-1990s
  4.1.1. Prosecutions
  4.1.2. National legislation
  4.2. Mid-1990s to present
  4.2.1. Conventional law
  4.2.2. Domestic legislation
  4.2.3. Trials in national courts
  4.2.4. Trials in courts of states not involved in the conflict
  5. Human rights courts
  5.1. Enforcement of international humanitarian law
  5.2. Enforcement of human rights law
  6. Non-enforcement: amnesties
  7. Conclusion
  pt. III MOVING FORWARD
  12. Developments Needed in the Law
  1. Introduction
  2. Substantive norms
  2.1. Combatant immunity and prisoners of war
  2.1.1. Combatant immunity
  2.1.2. Prisoners of war
  2.2. natural environment
  2.3. Territory under the control of the non-state armed group
  3. Enforcement and implementation of the law
  3.1. Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict and the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict
  3.2. Geneva Call
  3.2.1. Deed of Commitment
  3.2.2. Monitoring
  3.2.3. Beyond anti-personnel mines
  3.3. Engaging compliance
  3.3.1. Influencing others
  3.3.2. Legitimacy concerns
  3.4. Courts of non-state armed groups
  3.4.1. Examples
  3.4.2. Potential importance
  3.4.3. Legitimacy and recognition
  3.4.4. Towards greater engagement
  4. Methodology: armed groups and the creation of the law
  5. concrete proposal.