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  • Implementing International Humanitarian Lawby Yusuf Aksar

    Routledge 2004; US$ 54.95

    This book examines the international humanitarian law rules and their application by the ad hoc tribunals with regard to the substantive laws of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR). more...

  • Innocent Civiliansby Colm McKeogh

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 140.00

    Why is it that soldiers may be killed in war but civilians may not be killed? By tracing the evolution of the principle of non-combatant immunity in Western thought from its medieval religious origins to its modern legal status, Colm McKeogh attempts to answer this question. In doing so he highlights the unsuccessful attempts to reconcile warfare with our civilization's most fundamental principles of justice. more...

  • Reading Humanitarian Interventionby Anne Orford; James Crawford; John Bell

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 46.00

    During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford argues that humanitarian intervention had far more exploitative effects. What, if anything, has been lost in the move from humanitarian intervention to the war on terror? more...

  • Refugee Protection in International Lawby Erika Feller; Volker Türk; Frances Nicholson

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 67.00

    Millions of people are today forced to flee persecution. This book examines key challenges the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees faces, on the basis of nine papers by eminent international refugee lawyers, which were then discussed at an expert roundtable meeting in 2001 as part of UNHCR's Global Consultations on International Protection. more...

  • The Law of Internal Armed Conflictby Lindsay Moir; James Crawford; John Bell

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 58.00

    Moir examines the laws designed to protect civilians in internal armed conflict. He traces the development of international law from the nineteenth century to conflicts in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia; how human rights can protect during armed conflict; and how effectively (and by whom) the rules can be enforced. more...

  • International Human Rights and Humanitarian Lawby René Provost; James Crawford; John Bell

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 49.00

    How do international human rights and humanitarian law protect vulnerable individuals during peace and war? Provost analyses systemic similarities and differences between the two to examine how they are each built to achieve their similar goal. more...

  • The International Protection of Internally Displaced Personsby Catherine Phuong; James Crawford; John Bell; Hilary Charlesworth; John Collier; Lori Damrosch; John Dugard; Mary-Ann Glendon; Christopher Greenwood; Hein K?tz; Donald M. McRae

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 48.00

    Internally displaced persons have been forced to leave their homes because of war and human rights abuses, but have not left their country. This has major consequences in terms of the protection available to them. This book aims to offer an overview of this important humanitarian and human rights challenge. more...

  • Collateral Damageby Sahr Conway-Lanz

    CRC Press 2006; US$ 26.95

    Everyday on the news, we hear tallies of how many Iraqis were killed the previous day in America's current war in Iraq. Most of these victims are not soldiers, and have nothing to do with the war--they are just innocent civilians, caught in the cross-fire. They are the war's ''collateral damage.''. This book is a history of America's attempt to reconcile the atrocity of modern warfare, only realized after WWII and the development of the atomic bomb, with the idea that killing innocent civilians was off-limits and not justified to win a war. Conway-Lanz considers both policy makers' responses to the issues, as well as the on-going debate by the public on their perceptions of war violence against civilians, starting after WWII for the most complete... more...

  • Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Lawby Elizabeth Wilmshurst; Susan Breau

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 64.00

    A commentary on Customary International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005). more...

  • International Humanitarian Law Facing New Challengesby Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg; Volker Epping

    Springer 2007; US$ 159.00

    Recent armed conflicts, whether international or non-international in character, are in many respects characterized by a variety of asymmetries. These asymmetries may be overstressed, sometime even abused, and ultimately virtually meaningless. Still, either as such or in conjunction with other developments, they seem to challenge the law of armed conflicts or: international humanitarian law. These challenges may very well compromise the very function of that body of law, which is to mitigate as far as possible the calamities of war. Thus, the law of armed conflict may be deprived of its fundamental function as an order of necessity because its legally binding directives will increasingly be disregarded for the sake of allegedly superior values.... more...