The Origin of the Red Cross
Author : Henry Dunant
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
ISBN :
Author : Henry Dunant
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
ISBN :
Author : Giovanni Mantilla
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1501752596
In Lawmaking under Pressure, Giovanni Mantilla analyzes the origins and development of the international humanitarian treaty rules that now exist to regulate internal armed conflict. Until well into the twentieth century, states allowed atrocious violence as an acceptable product of internal conflict. Why have states created international laws to control internal armed conflict? Why did states compromise their national security by accepting these international humanitarian constraints? Why did they create these rules at improbable moments, as European empires cracked, freedom fighters emerged, and fears of communist rebellion spread? Mantilla explores the global politics and diplomatic dynamics that led to the creation of such laws in 1949 and in the 1970s. By the 1949 Diplomatic Conference that revised the Geneva Conventions, most countries supported legislation committing states and rebels to humane principles of wartime behavior and to the avoidance of abhorrent atrocities, including torture and the murder of non-combatants. However, for decades, states had long refused to codify similar regulations concerning violence within their own borders. Diplomatic conferences in Geneva twice channeled humanitarian attitudes alongside Cold War and decolonization politics, even compelling reluctant European empires Britain and France to accept them. Lawmaking under Pressure documents the tense politics behind the making of humanitarian laws that have become touchstones of the contemporary international normative order. Mantilla not only explains the pressures that resulted in constraints on national sovereignty but also uncovers the fascinating international politics of shame, status, and hypocrisy that helped to produce the humanitarian rules now governing internal conflict.
Author : Mats Deland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 135110442X
In the last decade, there has been a turn to history in international humanitarian law and its accompanying fields. To examine this historization and to expand the current scope of scholarship, this book brings together scholars from various fields, including law, history, sociology, and international relations. Human rights law, international criminal law, and the law on the use of force are all explored across the text’s four main themes: historiographies of selected fields of international law; evolution of specific international humanitarian law rules in the context of legal gaps and fault lines; emotions as a factor in international law; and how actors can influence history. This work will enhance and broaden readers’ knowledge of the field and serve as an excellent starting point for further research.
Author : Anthony Cullen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139486608
Anthony Cullen advances an argument for a particular approach to the interpretation of non-international armed conflict in international humanitarian law. The first part examines the origins of the 'armed conflict' concept and its development as the lower threshold for the application of international humanitarian law. Here the meaning of the term is traced from its use in the Hague Regulations of 1899 until the present day. The second part focuses on a number of contemporary developments which have affected the scope of non-international armed conflict. The case law of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia has been especially influential and the definition of non-international armed conflict provided by this institution is examined in detail. It is argued that this concept represents the most authoritative definition of the threshold and that, despite differences in interpretation, there exist reasons to interpret an identical threshold of application in the Rome Statute.
Author : Annette Weinke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1805399020
Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human-rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.
Author : Frits Kalshoven
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780898389241
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Author : Bruno Cabanes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 110702062X
Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.
Author : Md. Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004375546
This book examines the development of international humanitarian law (IHL), the protection of the victims of armed conflict, the IHL from a Third World perspective, the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution under Islamic law and the issues faced in implementing IHL.
Author : Michael Bothe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0199658803
The third edition of this work sets out a comprehensive and analytical manual of international humanitarian law, accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts.
Author : Andrew Clapham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191003522
The four Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1949, remain the fundamental basis of contemporary international humanitarian law. They protect the wounded and sick on the battlefield, those wounded, sick or shipwrecked at sea, prisoners of war, and civilians in time of war. However, since they were adopted warfare has changed considerably. In this groundbreaking commentary over sixty international law experts investigate the application of the Geneva Conventions and explain how they should be interpreted today. It places the Conventions in the light of the developing obligations imposed by international law on states, armed groups, and individuals, most notably through international human rights law and international criminal law. The context in which the Conventions are to be applied and interpreted has changed considerably since they were first written. The borderline between international and non-international armed conflicts is not as clear-cut as was once thought, and is complicated further by the use of armed force mandated by the United Nations and the complex mixed and transnational nature of certain non-international armed conflicts. The influence of other developing branches of international law, such as human rights law and refugee law has been considerable. The development of international criminal law has breathed new life into multiple provisions of the Geneva Conventions. This commentary adopts a thematic approach to provide detailed analysis of each key issue dealt with by the Conventions, taking into account both judicial decisions and state practice. Cross-cutting chapters on issues such as transnational conflicts and the geographical scope of the Conventions also give readers a full understanding of the meaning of the Geneva Conventions in their contemporary context. Prepared under the auspices of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, this commentary on four of the most important treaties in international law is unmissable for anyone working in or studying situations of armed conflicts.