[PDF] Top 20 War and International Law: Distinguishing Military and Humanitarian Professions

... The opinions shared in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the U.S.. Naval War College, the Dept[r] ... See full document

... the war has drawn widespread international condemnation, from the EU and even from the US, its staunchest ...an international commission of inquiry into possible war crimes, violations of ... See full document

... difficult to identify other topics that come within the concept. To the extent that peremptory norms are contained in either the OST or IHL regarding armed conflict in space, such norms would take precedence in resolving ... See full document

... Tasmania Law School and a Professo- rial Fellow at Melbourne Law ...on International Hu- manitarian Law to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the Department of Foreign ... See full document

... Under international humanitarian law it is prohibited to make the object of attack a person that has ...under international humanitarian law and examines in particular how ... See full document

... of military operations’ in Article 6(2) GC IV and later in Article 3(b) AP I, ...of war started only at the (formal) conclusion of ...of war continued to be held without any real need to do ... See full document

... an international armed ...of war and that at the end of hostilities they have to be returned to their own country without ...of war are not in the hands of individuals or military units, but ... See full document

... International humanitarian law, therefore, is one side of a coin; the other is human rights ...of international humanitarian ...the law of war (Buergenthal, ...of ... See full document

... its military superiority against all actual and potential adver- ...real war. For, if you de- lete “war” from the equation of “war gaming,” the only element that you are left with is ... See full document

... Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ¶¶ 61–67, ...Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, Situation on Registered Vessels of Comoros, ... See full document

... of military interventions, in favor as well as against the government (or the ...any military intervention is to affect the balance of power between the government and opposition ...a war, ... See full document

... If the conflict is a non-international armed conflict, the rules of international humanitarian law con- tained in Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and in P[r] ... See full document

... Those of us who consider Henry's order in Agincourt to be medieval and bar' baric, should note that even the essentially humanitarian Lieber Code allowed the denial of quarter to the e[r] ... See full document

... that military operations by the European members of NATO would henceforth be measured not only against the yardstick of international humanitarian law but also by reference to the very ... See full document

... The Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, adopted by the Twenty-fifth International Conference of the Red Cross meeting in Geneva in Oct[r] ... See full document

... The American tribunals have been most clear in stating that war crimes are defined by international law and therefore a tribunal, whether an American national court, an American military[r] ... See full document

... The law has headed in a direction that is consistent with this imperative and is keep- ing pace with globalization and the multitude of ways that States can assert their power ... See full document

... with humanitarian aid organizations aim to provide humanitarian assistance to the afflicted ...immediate humanitarian response assumes the form of food, shelter and medical aid ...provision. ... See full document

... preventing war was at ...the International Peace Institute (hereinafter, the IPI report), bias against Assad and disunity among the opposition parties infected the ... See full document

... In the same vein, new international treaties dealing with the conduct of hostilities were adopted after the Second World War. The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event ... See full document