Table of Contents

Foreword: ihl in a Time of Crisis – Back to the Basics?
Guido Acquaviva
Preface
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

Section A: Essays
1Promoting the Teaching of ihl in Universities: Overview, Successes, and Challenges of the icrc’s Approach
Etienne Kuster
2Experiences in Engaging States and Non-State Armed Groups to Further Respect for International Humanitarian Law
Jonathan Somer and Andrew Carswell
3Legislative Measures in International Humanitarian Law: A Jigsaw of Subtle Fragmentation
Azra Kuci and Jelena Plamenac
4The Future of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission: A Possibility to Overcome the Weakness of ihl Compliance Mechanisms?
Robert Heinsch
5The Role of United Nations Commissions of Inquiry in the Implementation of ihl: Potential and Challenges
Théo Boutruche
6The Intricate Relationship between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law in the European Court for Human Rights Case Law: An Analysis of the Specific Case of Detention in Non-International Armed Conflicts
Damien Scalia and Marie-Laurence Hebert-Dolbec
7International Humanitarian Law in the Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals and Courts
Alessandra Spadaro

Section B: Entries
1Abandoned Explosive Ordnances
2Acts Harmful to the Enemy
3Additional Protocol i
4Additional Protocol ii
5Additional Protocol iii
6Administrative Detention
7Aerial Warfare
8Amnesty
9Animals
10Annexation
11Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (1997)
12Anti-Terrorist Operations
13Apartheid
14Area Bombardment
15Armed Forces
16Armed Groups
17Armistice
18Arms Trade Treaty (2014)
19Artillery
20Asymmetric Warfare
21Asphyxiating Gases
22Assigned Residence
23Attacks
24Attacks against Civilians and Persons Hors de Combat
25Attacks against Historic Monuments, Works of Art and Places of Worship
26Attacks against Non-Defended Localities and Demilitarised Zones
27Attacks against Objects Indispensable to the Survival of the Civilian Population
28Attacks against Works or Installations Containing Dangerous Forces
29Attacks not Directed at a Specific Military Objective
30Attacks which Employ a Method or Means of Combat the Effects of which Cannot be Limited
31Attacks which Employ a Method or Means of Combat which Cannot be Directed at a Specific Military Objective
32Aut Dedere Aut Iudicare
33Autonomous Weapons
34Bacteriological Weapons
35Belligerency
36Belligerents
37Belligerents, Equality of
38Biological Weapons Convention (1972)
39Blockade
40Bombardment
41Booby-Traps
42Brussels Declaration (1874)
43Camouflage
44Capture Card
45Casualties, Search for
46Central Tracing Agency
47Chemical Weapons Convention (1992)
48Child Soldiers
49Children
50Civil Defence
51Civil War
52Civilian Objects
53Civilian Population
54Civilians
55Cluster Munitions
56Coastal Rescue Crafts
57Code of Conduct
58Collateral Damage
59Collective Punishment
60Combatants
61Command Responsibility
62Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-Finding Missions
63Common Article 1
64Common Article 2
65Common Article 3
66Compelling a Protected Person to Serve in the Forces of the Hostile Power
67Conciliation
68Continuous Combat Function
69Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (1980)
70Convention on Cluster Munitions (2008)
71Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and its Protocols
72Conventional Arms
73Counter-Terrorism
74Cruel Treatment
75Cultural Property
76Customary International Humanitarian Law
77Customary International Law
78Cyber Warfare
79Dead Persons
80Deportation or Transfer of Civilians
81Deprivation of Liberty
82Deprivation of Liberty, Treatment
83Derogation
84Deserters
85Detention
86Direct Participation in Hostilities
87Disability
88Disappearance
89Discipline
90Dissemination
91Distinguish, Obligation to
92Distinction
93Drones
94Dual-Use Objects
95Dum-Dum (Expanding) Bullets
96Dunant, Henry
97Economic Warfare
98Education
99Embargo
100Embedded Journalists
101Emblem
102Enquiry
103Environment
104Expanding Bullets
105Exploding Bullets
106Extrajudicial Killing
107Evacuation
108Explosive Remnants of War
109Explosive Weapons
110Fair Trial
111Flag State
112Forced Labour
113Foreign Fighters
114Freedom Fighters
115Fundamental Guarantees
116Gender Violence
117Geneva Convention i
118Geneva Convention ii
119Geneva Convention iii
120Geneva Convention iv
121Geneva Conventions
122Geneva Gas Protocol (1925)
123Geneva Law
124Grave Breaches
125Guerrilla
126Hague Convention (iv) Concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907)
127Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property (1954) and its Protocols
128Hague Declaration (iv, 3) Concerning Expanding Bullets (1899)
129Hague Law
130Hague Peace Conferences
131Hague Regulations (1907)
132Health
133Hors de Combat
134Hospital and Safety Zones and Localities
135Hospital Ships
136Hospitals
137Hostages
138Hostilities, Conduct of
139Human Rights Courts and Bodies
140Human Shields
141Humanitarian Assistance
142Humanitarian Corridors
143Humanitarian Relief
144Humanity
145Humiliating and Degrading Treatment
146Hybrid or Internationalised Tribunals
147Implementation
148Improvised Explosive Devices
149Incendiary Weapons
150Indiscriminate Attacks
151Individual Criminal Responsibility
152Information Bureaux
153Inhuman Treatment
154Inhumane Weapons Convention
155Initiative
156Integrity
157Internal Disturbances and Tensions
158International Armed Conflict
159International Committee of the Red Cross
160International Committee of the Red Cross, Visit
161International Committee for Relief to the Wounded
162International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006)
163International Criminal Law
164International Criminal Tribunals
165International Human Rights Law
166International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
167International Humanitarian Law
168International Humanitarian Law, General Principles of
169International Organizations
170International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
171Internment
172Italian Military Internees
173Ius Ad Bellum
174Ius in Bello
175Journalists
176Judges and Public Officials
177Kriegsraison
178Land Warfare
179Landmines
180Laser Weapons
181Law Enforcement
182Laws and Customs of War
183Laws of War
184Legislation in Occupied Territory
185Levée en Masse
186Lieber Code
187Life, Right to
188Looting
189Marking
190Martens Clause
191Means of Warfare
192Medical Aircrafts
193Medical Equipment
194Medical Ethics
195Medical or Scientific Experiments
196Medical Personnel
197Medical Standards, Generally Accepted
198Medical Transports
199Medical Transport Vessels
200Medical Units and Establishments
201Mercenaries
202Merchant Vessels
203Methods of Warfare
204Military Commissions
205Military Manuals
206Military Necessity
207Military Objectives
208Mines
209Missing Persons
210Mixed Criminal Tribunals
211Mortars
212Murder
213National Criminal Tribunals
214National ihl Committees
215National Information Bureaux
216National Legislation
217National Liberation Movements
218National Red Cross and Red Crescent Society
219Naval Warfare
220Neutral Ports
221Neutral Powers
222Neutrality
223Neutralized Zones
224New Weapons
225No-Fly Zone
226Non-Detectable Fragments
227Non-Discrimination
228Non-International Armed Conflict
229Non-Refoulement
230Non-State Actors
231Nuclear Weapons
232Occupation
233Orders
234Outrage upon Personal Dignity
235Oxford Manual on the Laws of War on Land (1880)
236Participation in Hostilities
237Peace Treaty
238Peacekeeping
239Penal Prosecution
240Penal Sanctions and Legislation
241Penal System
242Perfidy
243Physical Mutilation
244Pillage
245Piracy
246Plunder
247Poisonous Gases
248Precautions, Active
249Precautions, Passive
250Prisoners of War
251Prisoners of War, Exchange of
252Private Military and Security Companies
253Property, Destruction and Appropriation/Seizure of
254Property, Private
255Proportionality
256Protected Objects
257Protected Persons
258Protecting Powers
259Public Health and Hygiene
260Public International Law
261Public Officials
262Public Order and Safety
263Qualified Persons
264Quarter
265Rape and Sexual Violence
266Rebels
267Reciprocity
268Reconnaissance Missions
269Red Crescent
270Red Cross
271Red Crystal
272Red Lion and Sun
273Red Shield of David
274Refugee Law
275Refugees
276Regularly Constituted Courts
277Release
278Relief Societies
279Religious Convictions and Practices
280Religious Personnel
281Removal of Tissue or Organs
282Reparations
283Repatriation
284Repatriation, Unjustified Delay of
285Reprisals
286Requisitions
287Retention
288Review Conference
289Right to Leave
290Rules of Engagement
291Ruses of War
292Saboteurs
293Safe Area
294Saint Petersburg Declaration (1868)
295Secret Detention
296Security Corridors
297Security Detention
298Security Zones
299Serious Violations of the Laws and Customs of War
300Seriously Endangering the Physical or Mental Health or Integrity of Protected Persons
301Sexual Violence
302Shipwrecked
303Sick-Bays
304Siege
305Signal
306Slavery
307Small Arms and Light Weapons
308Sniping
309Solferino
310Special Agreements
311Specially Protected Zones
312Spies
313Superior Responsibility
314Starvation
315State Responsibility
316Statelessness
317Statutory Limitations
318Summary Proceedings
319Superfluous Injury and Unnecessary Suffering
320Superior Orders, Defence of
321Targeted Killing
322Taxation
323Terror, Spreading of
324Terrorism (ihl)
325Terrorism (International Law)
326Terrorist Organizations
327Torture
328Toxin Weapons
329Trade
330Transfer by the Occupying Power of its Own Population
331Transitional Justice
332Translation
333Transnational Armed Conflict
334Truth Commissions
335UN Protected Areas
336Unexploded Ordnances
337Universal Jurisdiction
338Unlawful Combatants
339Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (uavs)
340Unprivileged Combatants
341Usufruct
342War Correspondents
343War Crimes
344War on Terror
345Warships
346Wilful Killing and Murder
347Wilfully Causing Great Suffering or Serious Injury to Body or Health
348Wilfully Depriving a Protected Person of the Rights of Fair and Regular Trial
349Women
350Workers
351Wounded and Sick

About the Author

Dražan Djukić is Associate Legal Officer with the Pre-Trial Division of the International Criminal Court. He holds a LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and a Ph.D. from Tilburg University.

Niccolò Pons (LL.M, 2009) is Associate Legal Officer in the Chambers of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and formerly worked in the Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Chambers of the International Criminal Court.