Abstract
Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges. Central concerns include the war on terror, new forms of armed conflict and humanitarian action, the emergence of international criminal justice, and the reshaping of fundamental rules and consensus in a multipolar world. ThePractical Guide to Humanitarian Law provides the precise meaning and content for over 200 terms such as terrorism, refugee, genocide, armed conflict, protection, peacekeeping, torture, and private military companies—words that the media has introduced into everyday conversation, yet whose legal and political meanings are often obscure. The Guide definitively explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries. Written from the perspective of victims and those who provide assistance to them, the Guide outlines the dangers, spells out the law, and points the way toward dealing with violations of the law.
Entries are complemented by analysis of the decisions of relevant courts; detailed bibliographic references; addresses, phone numbers, and Internet links to the organizations presented; a thematic index; and an up-to-date list of the status of ratification of more than thirty international conventions and treaties concerning humanitarian law, human rights, refugee law, and international criminal law. This unprecedented work is an invaluable reference for policy makers and opinion leaders, students, relief workers, and members of humanitarian organizations.
Published in cooperation with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières.
Schlagworte
Peace and Conflict Latin American studies Middle East Studies European Studies International Law International Studies Asian Studies African Studies- 1–30 A 1–30
- 31–34 B 31–34
- 35–94 C 35–94
- 95–126 D 95–126
- 127–146 E 127–146
- 147–166 F 147–166
- 167–180 G 167–180
- 181–222 H 181–222
- 223–340 I 223–340
- 341–360 J 341–360
- 361–362 L 361–362
- 363–416 M 363–416
- 417–448 N 417–448
- 449–460 O 449–460
- 461–546 P 461–546
- 547–618 R 547–618
- 619–652 S 619–652
- 653–680 T 653–680
- 681–702 U 681–702
- 703–704 V 703–704
- 705–750 W 705–750
- 783–792 Term Index 783–792
- 797–798 About the Author 797–798
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- „... conflicts. ➔ Children; Evacuationi. in times of PeaCe or situations of internal disturbanCes and tensions1 ...” „... Council and the Peace and Security Council on the management of conflicts, war, acts of terrorism ...” „... non-international armed conflicts.It is the responsibility of combatants, and in particular of commanders, to ...”
- „... signatory and non-signatory States as well as non-state parties involved in the conflict.To overcome the ...” „... to the conflict to refer to both State and non-state actors taking part in hostilities. This term ...” „... belligerents.This is why humanitarian law distinguishes between the status of “parties to the conflict” and that of ...”
- „... international peace and secu-rity. Indeed, many military interventions in countries in conflict or crisis have ...” „... a conflict situation is difficult for an organization whose goal is to keep the peace and maintain ...” „... by armed and relief actors in situations of conflict.Fifteen years after the first publication of the ...”
- „... Art. 5).• Parties to a conflict: Relief personnel may not exceed the terms of their mission and must ...” „... administration of justice and pun-ishment in times of conflict (mainly for prisoners of war and interned or ...” „... and “regularly constituted” court in the context of an international armed conflict (API Art. 75.4) or ...”
- „... of civilians and reinforce the rules applicable to internal armed conflicts.This is most clearly ...” „... , Andreas, and Vashakmadze Mindia. “Asymmetrical War and the Notion of Armed Conflict—a Tentative ...” „... non-international armed conflicts.The complexity and divergence of these elements may lead to confusion and require ...”
- „... responsibility of “discuss[ing] any questions relating to the maintenance of international peace and security ...” „... maintenance of inter-national peace and security, the election of non-permanent members of the Security ...” „... horror of World War II, they clarify and codify the many rules of the laws of armed conflict that had ...”
- „... ➔ Protected areas and zones2. Camps Forbidden by the Law of Armed ConflictCertain camps are forbidden under ...” „... entitled to special respect and protection” in international and non-international armed conflicts.The ...” „... ; Wounded and sick persons2. Protection of Civilians in Non-international Armed ConflictsThe distinction ...”
- „... in times of peace and armed conflict. International and national courts have, however, reaffirmed ...” „... medical ethics applicable in times of peace and armed conflict. For example, the United Nations adopted on ...” „... disturbances and armed conflict.In May 2005, the Council of Europe adopted the Convention on the Prevention of ...”
- „... ; Non-state armed groups; Parties to the conflict; Peace; Private Military Companies; Situations and persons ...” „... disturbances and tensions; International armed conflict; International conventions; Methods (and means) of ...” „... warfare; Military necessity; Missing persons and the dead; Mercenaries; Non-international armed conflict ...”
- „... separated” (Rule 131). Those rules apply in both international and non-international armed conflicts.The ...” „... ConflictsAdditional Protocol II of the Geneva Conventions develops and supplements the guarantees for the protection ...” „... international and non-international armed conflicts. These specific rules aim to do the following:• Maintain ...”
- „... and non-international armed conflicts.Concerning the prohibition of discrimination in the delivering ...” „... the civilian population in general, as well as wounded and sick persons, in times of conflict. They ...” „... provisions are applicable in international and non-international armed conflicts. They are now recognized as ...”
- „... place in times of peace but also of armed conflict.International humanitarian law distinguishes between ...” „... related to the conflict.”i. JudiCial Guarantees relatinG to the arrest and detention of individualsUnder ...” „... ConflictsThe distinction between civilians and combatants is more complex during non-international armed ...”
- „... protection of individuals in situations of crisis and conflict.It is, however, possible to reach a fair and ...” „... situation of armed conflict:The protection of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights does ...” „... ” because they were adopted at the Peace Conferences that were held in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1899 and ...”
- „... and war correspondents during armed conflict.In the Simic Case (27 July 1999), the International ...” „... their command in times of armed conflict.The Fight against ImpunityTo fight impunity, international and ...” „... civilians (GCIV Arts. 27, 28) for international and non-international armed conflicts (APII Art. 4).The ...”
- „... least binding and demanding law in situations of crisis and conflict.In the case of Aksoy v. Turkey ...” „... under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, when faced with threats to the peace, breaches of the peace, and ...” „... non-interna-tional armed conflict, “parties to the conflict must allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded pas-sage of ...”
- „... due process rights that are guaranteed differ in times of peace and times of conflict. Judicial ...” „... All Situations of Armed ConflictThe Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols have also set ...” „... international armed conflicts, and war correspondents need to be ac-credited to accompany the armed forces of ...”
- „... when committed in the context of an international or non-international armed conflict, and as a crime ...” „... non-international armed conflicts (GCIV Art. 27, API Art. 76, and APII Art. 4). States Parties are also under the ...” „... international and non-interna-tional armed conflicts. ➔ Detention; Fundamental guarantees; Women• Since rape may ...”
- „... Humanitarian Law to Internal Armed Conflicts.” In A Century of War and Peace: Asia-Pacific Perspectives on the ...” „... definition of armed conflicts.It replaces and includes the notions of internal armed conflict, civil war ...” „... and tensions and those of non-international armed conflict.The main rules of humanitarian law have ...”
- „... Conflict. See protected objects and property; methods (and means) of warfareConvention Governing the ...” „... insurrection. See combatants; internal disturbances and tensions; non-international armed conflict; non-state ...” „... security; Security Council of the UN; African Union parties to the conflict, 461–464peace, 464peacekeeping ...”
- „... the post-conflict peace-building phase.iv. Commission and human riGhts CounCilThe Commission on Human ...” „... , and children in areas of armed conflict).As is the case for all UN bodies and agencies, UNICEF may not ...” „... objectives for the UN:• the maintenance of international peace and security through a system of collective ...”
- „... armed conflict.i. relief suPPlies and aCtionsThe occupying power has the duty to ensure that the ...” „... Jurisprudence).According to humanitarian law, occupation falls in the definition of international armed conflict and is ...” „... in both international and non-international conflicts, except during such times when they directly ...”