Organizing Rebellion Non-State Armed Groups under International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, and International Criminal Law

by Rodenhauser, Tilman

• ISBN13: 9780198821946
• ISBN10: 0198821948
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-05-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Tilman Rodenhauser, Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross

Dr Tilman Rodenhauser holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He is currently Legal Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and worked previously with the German Red Cross, DCAF, and Geneva Call. The views expressed in the book are those of the author alone and do not engage the ICRC, or previous employers, in any form.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1 - The Required Degree of Organisation of a Non-State Party to an Armed Conflict under International Humanitarian Law
1. Of Rebels, Insurgents, and Belligerents: Non-State Parties in the History of Warfare
2. Parties to Non-International Armed Conflicts under International Treaty Law
3. Organised Armed Groups in Contemporary International Practice
Part 2 - The Degree of Organisation Required from Non-State Armed Groups to have Obligations under International Human Rights Law
4. Human Rights, Natural Rights, and their Applicability beyond the State-Individual Relationship
5. The Fallacy of Effective Human Rights Protection under Relevant Treaty Law when Armed Groups Commit Violations
6. A Three-Pronged Approach to Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Armed Groups
Part III - The Required Degree of Organisation of Non-State Entities to Commit International Crimes or to Create Contexts in which Individuals Commit Them
7. Conceptual Considerations on the Notion of Crimes against Humanity
8. The Historical Development of Crimes against Humanity and Jurisprudence of the Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia, and Sierra Leone Tribunals
9. The 'State or Organizational Policy' Requirement for Crimes against Humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
10. Non-State Entity Involvement in Genocide
Conclusion