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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Geneva conventions"”.
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1977 protocol II additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and customary international law
… civil wars but only wars between States. The Geneva Conventions were adopted in 1949 to increase the protection of victims in armed conflicts, but the protection of the victims in internal conflict by the Conventions was limited. Thus, Protocol II additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 …
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Examining the Laws of War and the Necessity of Evolving Legal Principles to Counter Terrorism
… treaties on the laws of war, including the Geneva Conventions of 1949, various multilateral and regional treaties, and various domestic laws. Recommendations include a proposed definition of terrorism for use in the revision of international laws and a proposed course of action for the …
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Youth at War: The Impact and Effectiveness of International Laws against Child Soldier Recruitment
… of child soldiers. Although numerous treaties, conventions and protocols within international humanitarian, human rights and international criminal law prohibit the practice, the recruitment of children into armed groups and forces remain widespread and consistent. This mini-thesis follows the …
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The crime of 'terror' under International Humanitarian Law
… Article 13 (2) of Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the crime prohibits the ‘acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population’. The thesis is structured in two parts. The first traces the historical development of …
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Examining the dynamic cascading of international norms through cluster genealogies. 1998 UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and Other Cases
… humanitarian protection of IDPs under the Geneva Conventions. Meanwhile, rooting them in ‘sovereignty as responsibility’ has not shifted the community of states’ intersubjective take on sovereignty, but it has added to the existing normative tension – individual vs. state – that underpins …
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An Investigation of the Duty of States to Prosecute International Crimes and the Question of Amnesty
… international crimes arise from International Conventions to which a state is party. These include the 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Additional Protocols, the Conventions on the Crime of Genocide and Convention against Torture and Other Cruel. Others are the Inhumane or Degrading Treatment …
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The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms
… Indeed, humanitarian norms such as the Geneva Conventions are comparatively recent in world politics, and many political scientists claim that they are a manifestation of new norms of appropriateness in international society. Drawing on historical evidence which suggests that political …
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Blackwater versus Blackbeard : which international regulations exist for the use of private maritime security companies in vessel protection operations?
… For this purpose, the applicability of the Geneva Conventions and other key documents of the international humanitarian law will be analysed such as the Montreux Document and the Draft International Convention on the Regulation, Oversight and Monitoring of Private Military and Security …
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Development of global prohibition regimes: pillage and rape in war.
… the prohibition of pillage (with The Hague Conventions of 1899, 1907) and the prohibition of rape (with the Rome Statute of 1998) by modern international law. The question is given that women had historically been considered the property of men, why did the prohibition regime that regulated …
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By Any Means Necessary: The Quandary the CIA Now Faces In Light of Employing Enhanced Interrogation Methods to Combat the War on Terror
The outcry of torture being used during CIA interrogations of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay and other sites certainly jolted international humanitarians. With modern warfare evolving towards unconventional warfare, the notion of interrogation has become more controversial and linked …
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An Economic Analysis of Cyber Warfare Governance Models
… are the Tallinn Manual and Microsoft’s Digital Geneva Convention. The driving thesis of this research argues that within the monolith of the internet, there lie situations that can be examined through the lens of New Institutional Economics and commons governance, lending to rigorous and …