Public international law: humanitarian law

This book provides an insight into the issue of health inequity brought about by the violent conflict in Northeast India.

A timely book which considers aspects of human rights law and the armed forces.

Raises the novel legal question of animals during warfare, highlighting deficiencies in current practice and suggesting new readings and reforms.

This War Report provides detailed information on every armed conflict which took place during 2013, offering an unprecedented overview of the nature, range, and impact of these conflicts and the legal issues they created.

An examination of the historical narratives surrounding humanitarian intervention, presenting an undogmatic, alternative history of human rights protection.

The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) is a claims reparation program created by the United Nations Security Council in May 1991, after the UN-authorized Allied Coalition Forces' military operations terminated the seven-month invasion and occupation of Kuwait by Iraq and liberated Kuwait.

Examines a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order: human rights, democracy, and legitimacy.

An examination of the violence perpetrated against women in politically conflicted or militarized areas.

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.

This accessible account of the war in Iraq argues that US military actions constituted a criminal war of aggression.

This volume of essays examines challenges presented by non-state actors, quasi-legal norms, and gaps within normative and institutional frameworks.

This volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (NYIL) addresses the question how the assumption that states have a common obligation to achieve a collective public good can be reconciled with the fact that the 195 states of today's world are highly diverse and increasingly unequal in terms of size, population, politics, economy, culture, climate and historical development.

In Humanitarian Law in Action within Africa, Jennifer Moore studies the role and application of humanitarian law by focusing on African countries that are emerging from civil wars.

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2010, United Nations peace operations have evolved significantly.

A legal and historical analysis of the first modern attempts to prosecute national leaders for embarking upon aggressive war.

This book provides a comprehensive account of one significantly underreported aspect of violence affecting young refugee girls today, that of forced child marriage.

This book addresses the forms of legal protection extended to people displaced due to the consequences of climate change, and who have either become refugees by crossing international borders or are climatically displaced persons (CDPs) in their own homelands.

Realizing Utopia is a collection of essays by a group of innovative international jurists.

This book explores a cross-section of war crimes trials that Allied powers held against the Japanese after World War II.

This book is a practical guide for advocates interested in the representation of victims before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This book analyzes the legal implications of international organizations assuming the powers of national governments.

The 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has proven the most complicated and controversial of all arms control treaties, both in principle and in practice.

This book explores topical issues in military ethics by according peace a central role within an interdisciplinary framework.

Since World War II, there have been some 250 conflicts throughout the world, leaving between 70-170 million atrocity crime victims.

The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor investigates the rise of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a global security actor.

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the entities responsible for the production of data on armed conflicts (DAC), the processes by which it is generated, and the international norms that govern it.

This book offers a distinctive approach to the right not to be subjected to enforced disappearance.

This book contends that the right of access to justice (at national and international levels) constitutes a basic cornerstone of the international protection of human rights, and conforms a true right to the Law.

This edited volume analyzes the evolution of international disaster law as a field that encompasses new ideas about human rights, sovereignty, and technology.

The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) is a claims reparation program created by the United Nations Security Council in May 1991, after the UN-authorized Allied Coalition Forces' military operations terminated the seven-month invasion and occupation of Kuwait by Iraq and liberated Kuwait.

This book explores the historical origins of victory.

This book challenges the traditional approach to international law by concentrating on international hThis book challenges the traditional approach to international law by concentrating on international humanitarian law and placing the focus beyond States: it reflects on current legal, policy and practical issues that concern non-State actors in and around situations of armed conflict.

This book provides a comprehensive study of border control: from data analysis andinformation warfare, frameworks for command and control, and game-theoretic riskmanagement, up to the (optimal) deployment of law enforcement missions.

This volume compiles lessons learned by field researchers, many of whom have faced demanding situations characterized by violence, distrust and social fragmentation.

This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and elucidates the three foundational aspects of its jurisdiction as laid out in the Rome Statute: the preconditions for exercising jurisdiction (Article 12 ICCRSt), its substantive competence regarding core crimes (Articles 5-8bis ICCRSt), and the principle of complementarity (Article 171(a) ICCRSt).

This book analyzes civil wars over the past twenty years and examines what motivates some rebel groups to abide by international law.

An overview of the basic features of the law of armed conflict.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of citizenship and nationalism in connection with the Rohingya community.

Addresses some fundamental issues underlying the regime of belligerent occupation.

This book deals with the prosecution of core crimes and constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of the horizontal and vertical systems of enforcement of international criminal law and of their inter-relationship.

Despite the disasters of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and ever more visible evidence of the horrors of war, the concepts of 'Humanitarian Intervention' and 'Just War' enjoy widespread legitimacy and continue to exercise an unshakeable grip on our imaginations.

In this book, it is explained that despite a current drop in the number of deaths, terrorism should still be considered a serious and widespread problem.

This book analyses three major themes: decolonization, sovereignty, and peacekeeping.

This book is based on an international project conducted by the Institute for European Studies of the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid and a seminar on Vitoria and International Law which took place on July 2nd 2015 in the convent of San Esteban, the place where Vitoria spent his most productive years as Chair of Theology at the University of Salamanca.

This Handbook is provides a broad range of essential information about past experiences with massive reparations programs as well as normative guidance for future practice.

The work analyzes the impact and implementation of international humanitarian law in judicial and quasi judicial bodies.

This book examines the challenges posed by the largely unfamiliar culture in which the Special Court for Sierra Leone operates.