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The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and yet continues to be one of the most dynamic areas of law today. This book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, offering a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law. The book contains detailed examples, extracts from relevant cases, useful discussion questions, and a recommended reading list for every chapter. Emerging trends in theory and practice of international humanitarian law are also explored, allowing for readers to build on their knowledge, and grapple with some of the biggest challenges facing the law of armed conflict in the twenty-first century. This second edition offers new sections on issues like detention in non-international armed conflict, characterisation of non-international armed conflicts, expanded chapters on occupation and the protection of civilians, means and methods of warfare, and implementation, enforcement and accountability.

The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and yet continues to be one of the most dynamic areas of law today. This book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, offering a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law. The book contains detailed examples, extracts from relevant cases, useful discussion questions, and a recommended reading list for every chapter. Emerging trends in theory and practice of international humanitarian law are also explored, allowing for readers to build on their knowledge, and grapple with some of the biggest challenges facing the law of armed conflict in the twenty-first century. This second edition offers new sections on issues like detention in non-international armed conflict, characterisation of non-international armed conflicts, expanded chapters on occupation and the protection of civilians, means and methods of warfare, and implementation, enforcement and accountability.

Part I. Cultures of IH -- Chapter 1. Des-Encanto: Latin America and International Humanitarian Law -- Chapter 2. Rites of Affirmation: The Past, Present, and Future of International Humanitarian Law -- Chapter 3. Prisoners of War, Taking of Hostages and the Colombian Armed Conflict: Challenges Arising Out of Conflictive Understandings of IHL by Different Actors in Particular Contexts -- Chapter 4. Read the Room: Legal and Emotional Literacy in Frontline Humanitarian Negotiations -- Part II. Focus Section: Samuel Moyn's Humane: How The United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021) -- Chapter 5. Wars with and for Humanity -- Chapter 6. The Peace Movement and Grassroots International Law -- Chapter 7. Emancipation, Humanity, and Peace: A Response -- Part III. Year in Review -- Chapter 8. Year in Review 2021 -- Table of Cases -- Index.

Intro -- Editorial Board -- Editorial -- Contents -- Part I Cultures of IHL -- 1 Des-Encanto: Latin America and International Humanitarian Law -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Situating Latin America in the History of the Laws of War -- 1.3 Criollo Law of War -- 1.4 Litigating the Laws of War -- 1.5 The Disenchantment of Latin America -- 1.6 Conclusions -- References -- 2 Rites of Affirmation: The Past, Present, and Future of International Humanitarian Law -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Progress and Promise -- 2.3 An Immanent Cult -- 2.4 The Limits of History -- 2.5 The Uses of History -- 2.5.1 Exogenous Uses -- 2.5.2 Endogenous Uses -- 2.6 Coming to Terms with Anxiety: From History to Social Memory -- 2.6.1 Formalist Anxieties -- 2.6.2 Anxieties of Conscience/Consciousness -- 2.6.3 Vows Renewed, Promises Deferred -- 2.6.4 Histories of Deferment and Exculpation -- 2.6.5 Achievement, Anxiety and Misconception -- 2.7 Conclusion: Re-historicising the Laws of War -- References -- 3 Prisoners of War, Taking of Hostages and the Colombian Armed Conflict: Challenges Arising Out of Conflictive Understandings of IHL by Different Actors in Particular Contexts -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Detentions by Non-state Armed Groups in NIAC in the Light of IHL: Three Dimensions of the Same Phenomenon -- 3.2.1 The Impossibility to Automatically Transfer IHL Regulations for POW to NIACs -- 3.2.2 The IHL Regulation Over the Moment of Retention by Non-state Armed Groups -- 3.2.3 IHL Regulation on Conditions of Captivity by Non-state Armed Groups -- 3.2.4 IHL Regulation on Liberation of Persons Deprived of Their Physical Liberty by Non-state Armed Groups -- 3.2.5 Conclusion to Sect. 3.2 -- 3.3 FARC-EP's Detention of Members of Colombian Military Forces: The Impact of the Participation of the Former Members of the FARC-EP Secretariat in the Delimitation of IHL.

Ius in bello requires concrete measures in order o protect specific groups such as the civilian population. One of the project guaranteeing the fast deployment of satellite communication in context of humanitarian crises is emergency.lu. The article analyses its legal framework.

The purpose of this study is to analyse the normative character of custom in international humanitarian law (IHL), on the basis of the theory and jurisprudence of public international law, in order to arrive at a better understanding of the conduct of States in conflict situations. In so doing, an attempt will be made to determine the possibilities for developing custom in IHL, especially in view of the increasing concern shown by international public opinion for the plight of victims of armed conflicts. The paper will begin with a review of the questions raised by custom as an independent source of humanitarian law (point 1) and go on to take a closer look at the constituent elements of custom in humanitarian law (point 2). It will end with a comparative study of the two approaches to custom in IHL, concentrating on the consequences that the development of custom may have in the future (point 3).

Volume 24 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is dedicated to investigating IHL's universalist claims from different perspectives and regarding different areas of IHL. While academic debates about "universalism versus particularism" have dominated much of the critical scholarship in international law over the past two decades, they remain relatively underexplored in the field of IHL. The current volume fills this gap in IHL literature by focusing on the ways in which different interpretive communities approach questions of IHL from differing perspectives. Authors were invited to use the concept of culture to deconstruct and take critical distance from the production, interpretation, and application of IHL, and those keen on challenging the idea that IHL needs critical deconstruction were also invited to argue their case. The Volume contains four articles dedicated to the subject of cultures of IHL. It also features a book symposium on Samuel Moyn's Humane: How The United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021) and ends, as usual, with a Year in Review section. The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is a leading annual publication devoted to the study of international humanitarian law. The Yearbook has always strived to be at the forefront of the debate of pressing doctrinal questions of IHL and will continue to do so in the future. As this volume shows, it is also a forum for taking a step back and reflecting on the broader, theoretical issues that inform the practice and thinking about the field. The Yearbook provides an international forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed academic articles focusing on this crucial branch of international law. Distinguished by contemporary relevance, it bridges the gap between theory and practice and serves as a useful reference tool for scholars, practitioners, military personnel, civil servants, diplomats, human rights workers and students.