The International Committee Of The Red Cross In Internal Armed Conflicts

Author : Rajeesh Kumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811326011

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The International Committee of the Red Cross in Internal Armed Conflicts by Rajeesh Kumar Pdf

This book critically examines the possible dilution of the neutrality principle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in internal armed conflicts. It begins with the proposition that the intervention of ICRC in internal armed conflicts led to compromises in neutrality, and questioned the autonomy and independence of the organization. The book also argues that the field operations of the international humanitarian organizations during internal armed conflicts are dependent on the authority exercised by the state in whose territory the conflict persists. The ICRC’s involvement in Sri Lanka and Sudan provides empirical support to validate these propositions and arguments. The cases also show that for the ICRC, it is hard to be neutral and impartial in situations of internal armed conflicts and such conflicts present formidable challenges to maintain its organization autonomy as well. The larger purpose of the book is to contribute to the policy re/formulation of the international humanitarian organizations in internal armed conflict, the most significant challenge in the field at present.

Author : International Committee of the Red Cross
Publisher : International Committee of Red Cross
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : IND:30000029998923

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Guide for National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to Activities in the Event of Conflict by International Committee of the Red Cross Pdf

Author : Kubo Macak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192551788

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Internationalized Armed Conflicts in International Law by Kubo Macak Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of factors that transform a prima facie non-international armed conflict (NIAC) into an international armed conflict (IAC) and the consequences that follow from this process of internationalization. It examines in detail the historical development as well as the current state of the relevant rules of international humanitarian law. The discussion is grounded in general international law, complemented with abundant references to case law, and illustrated by examples from twentieth and twenty-first century armed conflicts. In Part I, the book puts forward a thorough catalogue of modalities of conflict internationalization that includes outside intervention, State dissolution, and recognition of belligerency. It then specifically considers the legal qualification of complex situations that feature more than two conflict parties and contrasts the mechanism of internationalization of armed conflicts with the reverse process of de-internationalization. Part II of the book challenges the conventional wisdom that members of non-State armed groups do not normally benefit from combatant status. It argues that the majority of fighters belonging to non-State armed groups in most types of internationalized armed conflicts are in fact eligible for combatant status. Finally, Part III turns to belligerent occupation, traditionally understood as a leading example of a notion that cannot be transposed to armed conflicts occurring in the territory of a single State. By contrast, the book argues in favour of the applicability of the law of belligerent occupation to internationalized armed conflicts.

Author : Henry Dunant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547092438

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The Origin of the Red Cross: "Un souvenir de Solferino" by Henry Dunant Pdf

After noticing the suffering of thousands of wounded soldiers at the Battle of Solferino in 1859, Henry Dunant decided to write 'A Memory of Solferino'. Its publication proved conclusive in founding the International Committee of the Red Cross. In this influential book, Dunanat brilliantly described the battle, the sufferings, and the aid organization.

Author : Christos Giannou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Amputees
ISBN : UCBK:C107338471

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War Surgery by Christos Giannou Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM contains graphic footage of various war wound surgeries.

Author : François Bugnion
Publisher : MacMillan Education, Limited
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004807638

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The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Protection of War Victims by François Bugnion Pdf

Author : Michael Bothe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199658800

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The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law by Michael Bothe Pdf

The third edition of this work sets out a comprehensive and analytical manual of international humanitarian law, accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts.

Author : David P. Forsythe,Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317289036

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The International Committee of the Red Cross by David P. Forsythe,Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan Pdf

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has a complex position in international relations, being the guardian of international humanitarian law but often acting discretely to advance human dignity. Treated by most governments as if it were an inter-governmental organization, the ICRC is a non-governmental organization, all-Swiss at the top, and it is given rights and duties in the 1949 Geneva Conventions for Victims of War. Written by two formidable experts in the field, this book analyzes international humanitarian action as practiced by the International Red Cross, explaining its history and structure as well as examining contemporary field experience and broad diplomatic initiatives related to its principal tasks. Such tasks include: ensuring that detention conditions are humane for those imprisoned by reason of political conflict or war providing material and moral relief in conflict promoting development of the humanitarian part of the laws of war improving the unity and effectiveness of the movement Fully updated throughout, the new edition will also include brand new material on: armed actors who do not accept humanitarian restrictions on their actions, including expanded coverage of the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS), Al Shabab, and Boko Haram, among others Syrian internationalized civil war issue of drone strikes and targeted killings, and the continuing push for regulation of what is called cyber war the question of the field of application of international humanitarian law (what is the battlefield?). Particularly when states declare "war" on "terrorist groups" operating inside other states regulation of new weapons and new uses of old weapons

Author : Sandesh Sivakumaran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199239795

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The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict by Sandesh Sivakumaran Pdf

Non-international armed conflicts now far outnumber international ones, but the protection afforded by international law to combatants and civilian is not always clear. This book will set out the legal rules and state practice applicable to internal armed conflicts, drawing on armed conflicts from the US civil war to present day.

Author : Frits Kalshoven
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004642263

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Assisting the Victims of Armed Conflict and Other Disasters by Frits Kalshoven Pdf

Author : Miriam Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191025716

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Protecting Civilians in War by Miriam Bradley Pdf

Since the complex emergencies of the 1990s, humanitarian agencies have placed increasing emphasis on the protection of civilians during armed conflict. In spite of this, there is a consensus among humanitarians that outcomes are falling short of intentions, and that the increased emphasis on protection by humanitarian actors has failed to yield a corresponding improvement in the security of the civilian population. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are two of the most important humanitarian agencies for the protection of civilians, and both have protection at the heart of their mandates. Protecting Civilians in War explores how organizational history, structure, and culture affect how each organization goes about protection, and highlights the ways in which their resulting approaches to protection are inherently limited. Whereas existing explanations for shortcomings in humanitarian protection tend to blame factors external to humanitarian agencies, the focus of this book is on the organizations themselves, and their understandings of protection. While acknowledging the importance of other actors in determining the level of civilian security or insecurity, the analysis in this book focuses on the ways in which the ICRC and UNHCR conceptualise and practise protection in order to add another layer to our understanding of why protection outcomes are so often so disappointing. Based on research in Geneva, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Myanmar, it examines headquarter-level policy and the way that such policy is translated into practice on the ground.

Author : NA NA,Nicholas O. Berry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137114723

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War and the Red Cross by NA NA,Nicholas O. Berry Pdf

Wars in the post-Cold War era are overwhelmingly internal or civil wars. Civilians, mostly women, children, and the elderly, make up over ninety percent of the casualties in these wars. This statistic has convinced the world's premier war-relief organization, the Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to take on a new mission: to make these wars dysfunctional and to end them. Berry reveals how this mission remains unpublicized and unsaid, due to the effect which many fear it would have on the ICRC's traditional purpose of providing war relief. Exposing the ICRC's intricate and ambitious strategy, Berry shows how it was put into operation in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, the Sudan, Aghanistan, and Guatemala. The book reveals that a major non-governmental organization, while proclaiming to be non-political, has a huge political agenda.

Author : David P. Forsythe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139446320

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The Humanitarians by David P. Forsythe Pdf

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) coordinates the world's largest private relief system for conflict situations. Its staff operates throughout the world, and in recent years the ICRC has mounted large operations in the Balkans and Somalia. Yet despite its very important role its internal workings are mysterious and often secretive. This book examines the ICRC from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day, and provides a comprehensive overview of a unique private organisation, whose governing body remains all-Swiss, but which is recognized in international law as if it were an inter-governmental organization. David Forsythe focuses on the policy making and field work of the ICRC, while not ignoring international humanitarian law. He explores how it exercises its independence, impartiality, and neutrality to try to protect prisoners in Iraq, displaced and starving civilians in Somalia, and families separated by conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.

Author : Jean-Marie Henckaerts,Carolin Alvermann,Comité international de la Croix-Rouge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521808996

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Customary International Humanitarian Law by Jean-Marie Henckaerts,Carolin Alvermann,Comité international de la Croix-Rouge Pdf

Customary International Humanitarian Law, Volume I: Rules is a comprehensive analysis of the customary rules of international humanitarian law applicable in international and non-international armed conflicts. In the absence of ratifications of important treaties in this area, this is clearly a publication of major importance, carried out at the express request of the international community. In so doing, this study identifies the common core of international humanitarian law binding on all parties to all armed conflicts. Comment Don:RWI.

Author : Haidi Willmot,Ralph Mamiya,Scott Sheeran,Marc Weller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198729266

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Protection of Civilians by Haidi Willmot,Ralph Mamiya,Scott Sheeran,Marc Weller Pdf

The protection of civilians is a highly topical issue at the forefront of international discourse, and has taken a prominent role in many international deployments. It has been at the center of debates on the NATO intervention in Libya, UN deployments in Darfur, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and on the failures of the international community in Sri Lanka and Syria. Variously described as a moral responsibility, a legal obligation, a mandated peacekeeping task, and the culmination of humanitarian activity, it has become a high-profile concern of governments, international organizations, and civil society, and a central issue in international peace and security. This book offers a multidisciplinary treatment of this important topic, harnessing perspectives from international law and international relations, traversing academia and practice. Moving from the historical and philosophical development of the civilian protection concept, through relevant bodies of international law and normative underpinnings, and on to politics and practice, the volume presents coherent cross-cutting analysis of the realities of conflict and diplomacy. In doing so, it engages a series of current debates, including on the role of politics in what has often been characterized as a humanitarian endeavor, and the challenges and impacts of the use of force. The work brings together a wide array of eminent academics and respected practitioners, incorporating contributions from legal scholars and ethicists, political commentators, diplomats, UN officials, military commanders, development experts and humanitarian aid workers. As the most comprehensive publication on the subject, this will be a first port of call for anyone studying or working towards a better protection of civilians in conflict.