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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462079403321

Autore

Sivakumaran Sandesh

Titolo

The law of non-international armed conflict [[electronic resource] /] / Sandesh Sivakumaran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, U.K., : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-65822-4

0-19-163814-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (696 p.)

Disciplina

341.68

Soggetti

Civil war

War (International law)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [571]-618) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. I. Regulating non-international armed conflicts -- Ad-hoc regulation -- Systematic regulation through international humanitarian law -- Regulation through a body of international law -- The sources of the law on non-international armed conflict -- Pt. II. The substantive law of non-international armed conflict -- Identifying a non-international armed conflict : armed conflicts and internal tensions and disturbances -- Identifying a non-international armed conflict : international and non-international armed conflicts -- Scope of application -- Protection of civilians and persons hors de combat -- Implementation and non-judicial enforcement -- Judicial enforcement -- Pt. III. Moving forward -- Developments needed in the law.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together and critically analyses the disparate conventional, customary, and soft law relating to non-international armed conflict. All the relevant bodies of international law are considered, including international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and international human rights law. The book traces the changes to the legal framework applicable to non-international armed conflict from ad hoc regulation in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, tosystematic regulation through the 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Additional Protocols, to the transformation of t