International Humanitarian Law

by Carey, John; Dunlap, William V.; Pritchard, R. John

• ISBN13: 9781571052650
• ISBN10: 1571052658
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff

Summary

In three distinct volumes the editors bring together a distinguished group of contributors whose essays chart the history, practice, and future of international humanitarian law. At a time when the war crimes of recent decades are being examined in the International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and a new International Criminal Court is being created as a permanent venue to try such crimes, the role of international humanitarian law is seminal to the functioning of such attempts to establish a just world order. The events of September 2001 and the world-wide threat of terrorist attacks, bring into sharper focus questions about the ramifications of unconventional warfare and how prisoners taken in armed conflict short of declared war should be treated. Here again international humanitarian law can provide the guideposts needed to find a just course through difficult times. The intent of these volumes is to help to inform where humanitarian law had its origins, how it has been shaped by world events, and why it can be employed to serve the future.

Table of Contents

Contributors	v
Foreword	xiii
Anthony A. D'Amato
Introduction to Volume 2-Challenges	xix
R. John Pritchard
Chapter 1: Media Limitations in Reporting Crimes Against Humanity
John W. Finney	1	(6)
Chapter 2: Spotlight on Violations of International Humanitarian Law: The Role of the Media
Roy W. Gutnian	7	(8)
Chapter 3: Dissemination and International Humanitarian Law in Modern Social Conflict
William V. Dunlap	15	(12)
Chapter 4: War Crimes Law Comes of Age
Theodor Meron	27	(6)
Chapter 5: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Its Treatment of Crimes Against Women
Kelly Dawn Askin	33	(56)
Chapter 6: The Modern Blood-Feud: Thoughts on the Philosophy of Crimes Against Humanity and the Proper Response
Christopher L. Blakesley	89	(34)
Chapter 7: States, NGOs and Humanitarian Intervention
Henry F. Carey	123	(52)
Chapter 8: United Kingdom SOFAS and Rules of Engagement in Yugoslavia: Some Further Reflections
G.R. Rubin	175	(26)
Chapter 9: Can Perpetrators Really Suffer from "Denial Syndrome"?
Irma Foley	201	(12)
Chapter 10: Implementation of International Humanitarian Law and the Role of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Jean-Phillipe Luvoyer	213	(14)
Chapter 11: The Domestic Application of International Human Rights Law: The Case of the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission
Jan Perlin	227	(32)
Chapter 12: The Rome Statute of the international Criminal Court and Weapons of a Nature to Cause Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering, or Which Are Inherently indiscriminate
Roger S. Clark	259	(24)
Chapter 13: The Anatomy of a Court: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Farah Stockman	283	(24)
Chapter 14: International Judges and Prosecutors in Kosovo
Michael E. Martmann	307	(48)
Index	355