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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.

Resolution V of the 25th International Conference of the Red Cross (Geneva, 1986) asked the ICRC to gather and assess information on legislation and other measures, either already taken or being considered, to implement international humanitarian law.

In 1974, the University of Leiden (Netherlands) established a Chair of International Humanitarian Law, whose first incumbent was Professor Frits Kalshoven, a familiar name to readers of theReview.Mr. George Aldrich, who led the United States delegation at the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts from 1974 to 1977, and who since 1981 has been a Judge at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague, was recently appointed as his successor.During an official ceremony held at the University of Leiden on 13 November 1990, the new holder of the "Red Cross Chair", as it is sometimes called, made a pressing appeal in his inaugural lecture for compliance with international humanitarian law. In his talk Professor Aldrich described with a large measure of realism the obstacles to implementation of the law but showed cautious optimism in reviewing the means available to the international community to surmount those obstacles.TheReviewis pleased to publish, with the author's agreement, the text of his lecture which brings to a close, on a note of appeal and hope, this series of articles devoted to implementation of international humanitarian law.

We are very pleased to publish this report by Mrs. Diallo on research into the correlations between the principles of international humanitarian law and the humanitarian principles underlying African traditions. In earlier issues of International Review, various authors have drawn attention to the fact that historically, in Islamic countries, in India and elsewhere in the Far East, in a variety of ethical doctrines and in many different types of civilization, thoughts have been expressed which compare with those of the Red Cross—leading to the conclusion that they arise from aspirations common to most of mankind. It is particularly appropriate therefore to disclose certain concordances between them and to discover, in all these different places, a unity of view and of teaching in ethical and social affairs.