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Foreword : IHL in a time of crisis - back to the basics? / Guido Acquaviva -- Promoting the teaching of IHL in universities : overview, successes, and challenges of the icrc's approach / Etienne Kuster -- Experiences in engaging states and non-state armed groups to further respect for international humanitarian law / Jonathan Somer and Andrew Carswell -- Legislative measures in international humanitarian law : a jigsaw of subtle fragmentation / Azra Kuci and Jelena Plamenac -- The future of the international humanitarian fact-finding commission : a possibility to overcome the weakness of IHL compliance mechanisms? / Robert Heinsch -- The role of United Ntions commissions of inquiry in the implementation of IHL : potential and challenges / Theo Boutruche -- The intricate relationship between international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the European Court for Human Rights case law : an analysis of the specific case of detention in non-international armed conflicts / Damien Scalia and Marie-Laurence Hebert-Dolbec -- International humanitarian law in the jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals and courts / Alessandra Spadaro -- Entries

The ICRC has on various occasions drawn the attention of National Red Cross Societies to the importance of an ever wider dissemination of the Geneva Conventions. In March 1971, it sent them a letter relating to the teaching of international humanitarian law in universities. Recently it reverted to the subject in a circular which we publish below, followed by the outline of a course on international humanitarian law which Mr. Jean Pictet, Vice-President of the ICRC, is giving at the University of Geneva, and which he has authorized us to reproduce.