Inducing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law (eBook, ePUB)

Lessons from the African Great Lakes Region
Redaktion: Krieger, Heike

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Produktbeschreibung

The number of armed conflicts featuring extreme violence against the civilian population in areas with no or little state authority has risen significantly since the early 1990s. This phenomenon has been particularly prevalent in the African Great Lakes Region. This collection of essays evaluates, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the various traditional and alternative instruments for inducing compliance with international humanitarian law. In particular, it explores the potential of persuasion, as well as hierarchical means such as criminal justice on the international and domestic level or quasi-judicial mechanisms by armed groups. Furthermore, it evaluates the role and potential of human rights bodies, peacekeeping missions and the UN Security Council's special compliance system for children and armed conflicts. It also considers how Common Article 1 to the Geneva Conventions and the law of state responsibility could both potentially increase compliance with international humanitarian law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316379486
• Artikelnr.: 52972312

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Heike Krieger; Part I. Conditions for Compliance by Armed
Groups, Focussing on Non-Hierarchical Instruments: 2. Rational motives for
civilian targeting in civil war Reed Wood; 3. Insurgent governance in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo Zachariah Mampilly; 4. The power of
persuasion: the role of international non-governmental organizations in
engaging armed groups Ulrich Schneckener and Claudia Hofmann; 5. Comment -
persuading armed groups to better respect international humanitarian law
Olivier Bangerter; 6. Implementing humanitarian norms through non-state
armed groups Sandesh Sivakumaran; Part II. Criminal Prosecution:
Hierarchical Enforcement on Different Levels: 7. Courts of armed groups a
tool for inducing higher compliance with international humanitarian law?
Jan Willms; 8. Comment - perspectives on courts established by armed
opposition groups Dieter Fleck; 9. The role of international criminal
prosecutions in increasing compliance with international humanitarian law
in contemporary African conflicts Robert Cryer; 10. National courts: the
situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Jean-Michel Kumbu; 11.
Comment - the Congolese legal system and the fight against impunity for the
most serious international crimes Balingene Kahombo; Part III.
International Organisations as Actors for Ensuring Compliance: 12.
Enforcing international humanitarian law through human rights bodies
Dominik Steiger; 13. Comment - enforcement of international humanitarian
law through the human rights organs of the African Union Faustin Zacharie
Ntoubandi; 14. The UN Security Councils special compliance systems - the
regime of children and armed conflict Regina Klostermann; 15. Ensuring
peacekeepers' respect for international humanitarian law Siobhán Wills; 16.
Comment - obligations of States contributing to UN peacekeeping missions
under Common Article 1 to the Geneva Conventions Matthew Happold; 17.
Comment - UN peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: the
travails of civilian protection Denis M. Tull; Part IV. The Role of Third
States: 18. Common Article 1 to the Geneva Conventions: scope and content
of the obligation to ensure respect - narrow but deep or wide and shallow?
Robin Geiß; 19. Complicity in violations of international humanitarian law
Helmut Philipp Aust; 20. International responsibility for humanitarian law
violations by armed groups Kirsten Schmalenbach; Conclusion: 21. Where
states fail, non-state actors rise? Inducing compliance with international
humanitarian law in areas of limited statehood Heike Krieger.