The Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions in Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-286890-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

The Additional Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Conventions remain a landmark in the development of international humanitarian law. The first two Additional Protocols were adopted by states in 1977. These protocols encompass the rules governing the treatment and protection of those in the power of an enemy, as well as the conduct of hostilities. Crucially, they address non-international armed conflicts and wars of national liberation. In 2005, a third additional protocol designating an additional distinctive humanitarian emblem was adopted in controversial circumstances.

The Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions in Context interprets the key rules and issues of the Additional Protocols and considers their application and implementation over the past forty years. Taking a thematic approach, the book examines subjects including the protection of women, armed non-state actors, relief operations, and prohibited weapons. Each chapter discusses the pertinence of existing laws, the challenges raised by the rules in the Additional Protocols, and what more could be done to better protect civilians. This book also considers whether new technologies, such as offensive cyber operations and autonomous weapons, need new treaty rules to regulate their application in armed conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellal, Annyssa

Casey-Maslen, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The Scope of Application of the Three Additional Protocols

- 2: Fundamental Guarantees

- 3: The Protection of Women

- 4: The Protection of Children

- 5: Protection of Detainees and Prisoner-of-War Status

- 6: Relief Operations

- 7: The Distinctive Emblems

- 8: The Rule of Distinction (Objects)

- 9: The Rule of Distinction (Persons)

- 10: The Rule of Proportionality

- 11: Precautions in Attack and Defence

- 12: Prohibited Weapons

- 13: Terrorism and Acts of Terror

- 14: Starvation and Sieges

- 15: Reprisals

- 16: National Implementation

- 17: Application and Implementation by Armed Non-State Actors

- 18: Application of International Humanitarian Law to United Nations Operations

- 19: International Criminal Law

- 20: The Role of the ICRC

Über Autor(innen)

Annyssa Bellal is a Senior Researcher and the Executive Coordinator of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She teaches the law of armed conflict at the University of Bern, and various international law courses at Sciences-Po Paris. She has a doctorate in public international law and master's degrees in history and philosophy of law.

Stuart Casey-Maslen is Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa where he teaches the law of armed conflict, international human rights law, international counterterrorism law, jus ad bellum, and disarmament law. He has a doctorate in international humanitarian law and master's degrees in international human rights law and forensic ballistics.