Searching for a 'principle of humanity' in international humanitarian law / editors Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen, Camilla Guldahl Cooper and Gro Nystuen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Larsen, Kjetil Mujezinović, 1976- editor.

Cooper, Camilla Guldahl, editor.

Nystuen, Gro, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 365 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Summary:

The legal norms of International Humanitarian Law are the product of a compromise between humanitarian considerations and the demands of military necessity. In Searching for a 'Principle of Humanity' in International Humanitarian Law, international legal scholars consider whether humanitarian considerations have an independent legal impact on IHL beyond the formation of these norms. They ask whether a 'principle of humanity' can be said to have legal force in its own right. Moreover, the book investigates whether regional or national differences are emerging regarding the import and emphasis placed on humanitarian considerations. For instance, do states which are not directly affected by armed conflict attach a greater weight to humanitarian considerations when interpreting and applying IHL than those states which are more directly involved in armed conflicts? Specifically, this book examines whether a particular 'Nordic perspective' can be identified, owing to those states' involvement in armed conflicts outside their own territories in the post- Second World War era.

Contents:

The main epochs of modern international humanitarian law since 1864 and their related dominant legal constructions / Robert Kolb

The principle of proportionality / Yoram Dinstein

The Geneva conventions and the dichotomy between international and non-international armed conflict : curse or blessing for the 'principle of humanity'? / Cecilie Hellestveit

A 'principle of humanity' or a 'principle of human-rightism'? / Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen

The principle of humanity in the development of "special protection" for children in armed conflict : 60 years beyond the geneva conventions and 20 years beyond the convention on the rights of the child / Katarina Månsson

Military occupation of eastern Karelia by Finland in 1941-1944 : was international law pushed aside? / Lauri Hannikainen

The occupied and the occupant: the case of Norway / Sigrid Redse Johansen

Multinational peace operations forces involved in armed conflict : who are the parties? / Ola Engdahl

Security detention in UN peace operations / Peter Vedel Kessing

Humanity and the discourse of legality / Rikke Ishøy

Implementation in practice : 60 years of dissemination and other implementation efforts from a Norwegian perspective / Arne-Willy Dahl and Camilla G. Guldahl Cooper.

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ISBN:

9781139134972

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