Public international law: humanitarian law

In 1997, many countries came together to pledge $500 million over five years to 'mine action' programmes to tackle the destruction caused by landmines.

In countries such as Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, and Yemen, internationally recognized governments embroiled in protracted armed conflicts, and with very little control over their territory, have requested direct military assistance from other states.

Analyses the legal implications of non-international armed conflicts at a time when their number is constantly growing.

This War Report provides detailed information on every armed conflict which took place during 2014, offering an unprecedented overview of the nature, range, and impact of these conflicts and the legal issues they created.

The only book addressed to both law students and military officers undergoing training in the law of armed conflict.

Analysing thousands of policy documents from nine counterinsurgency wars, Elias asks why powerful militaries have difficulty managing local partners.

An insider''s look at the role international law plays in Arab-Israeli negotiations in the Middle East.

How do parties to peace negotiations actually build durable peace and what conundrums must they solve to achieve durable peace?

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

This book studies the principles and practice of extending a country''s criminal law to offences committed abroad by their armed forces personnel.

This book reinterprets the history of international human rights by arguing that the 1960s were crucial to their breakthrough.

Faced with the scale of global challenges such as poverty and inequality, one question is where to start.

In recent years there has been a tendency to intervene in the military, political and economic affairs of failed and failing states and those emerging from violent conflict.

A detailed and highly authoritative critical commentary appraising the vitally important United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual.

International humanitarian law is the law that governs the conduct of participants during armed conflict.

This collection of essays analyses the European Union's involvement in global emergencies from a law and policy perspective.

An exploration of the relationship between different branches of international law and their applicability to terrorism.

Addresses challenges to the implementation of international human rights law from institutional, normative and practical perspectives.

The first comprehensive treatment of international law and policy on the protection of civilians in armed conflict.

Should states use military force for humanitarian purposes?

The history of war is also a history of its justification.

Every day the American government, the United Nations, and other international institutions send people into non-English speaking, war-torn, and often minimally democratic countries struggling to cope with rising crime and disorder under a new regime.

Community paralegals - sometimes called barefoot lawyers - help people take on injustice.

Hilary Evans Cameron demonstrates how the law that governs fact-finding in refugee hearings is malfunctioning, and suggests a way forward.

Many years after the United States initiated a military response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the nation continues to prosecute what it considers an armed conflict against transnational terrorist groups.

This Manual provides an up-to-date restatement of existing international law applicable to the conduct of air and missile warfare.

A comprehensive analysis into the lawfulness of state-sponsored targeted killings under international human rights and humanitarian law, this book examines treaties, custom and general principles of law to determine the normative paradigms which govern the intentional use of lethal force against selected individuals in law enforcement and the conduct of hostilities.

This book analyses the politics of the humanitarian disarmament community-a loose coalition of activist and advocacy groups, humanitarian agencies and diplomats-who have successfully achieved international treaties banning landmines, cluster munitions and nuclear weapons, as well as restricting the global arms trade.

Humanitarian disarmament is not new, but instead represents a re-emergence of a long-standing sensibility in disarmament discourse

The essays in this volume are dedicated to Gareth Jones, the retiring Downing Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge.

Proportionality is intimately linked to the overarching concepts of self-defense, lawful force, and the controlled application of violence.

What should be the role of our institutions of higher education?

What should be the role of our institutions of higher education?

When foreign powers attack civilians, other countries face an impossible dilemma.

Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v.

When foreign powers attack civilians, other countries face an impossible dilemma.

Flexibility is usually seen as a virtue in today's world.

With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities.

With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities.

'A masterpiece' Peter Pomerantsev'Powerful' Serhii Plokhy'Fascinating' Daily TelegraphA history of Russian violence waged against Ukraine across the centuries.

Can we achieve justice during war?

This book deals with a crucial and yet under-explored topic that has increasingly gained momentum during modern armed conflicts, i.

This book draws inspiration from existing practices of the ICC and analyzes some of these achievements and challenges concerning the prosecution of war crimes/enforcement of IHL before the ICC.

Harmful Practices and Human Rights examines different forms of harmful practices, globally, which constitute human rights violations as guaranteed in international and regional human rights instruments.

A comprehensive analysis of human and non-human targets in contemporary armed conflicts with references to the most recent practice.

Harmful Practices and Human Rights examines different forms of harmful practices, globally, which constitute human rights violations as guaranteed in international and regional human rights instruments.

Volume 26 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (YIHL) centres on the law, history and politics of humanitarian action in armed conflicts and beyond.

This book deals with a crucial and yet under-explored topic that has increasingly gained momentum during modern armed conflicts, i.

An innovative analysis of accountability in international peacekeeping and human rights, with a focus on the UN''s Haiti mission.