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Zusatztext This is a rich and lengthy book. It is also courageous: Sivakumaran does not shy away from discussing some of the most debatable issues in international humanitarian law. Informationen zum Autor Sandesh Sivakumaran is Associate Professor and Reader in Public International Law at the School of Law, University of Nottingham. He has worked at the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and has acted as an expert for intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. He is a recipient of the Giorgio La Pira Prize and the Antonio Cassese Prize for International Criminal Law Studies. Klappentext 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. Winner of the 2014 European Society of International Law Book Prize Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Regulating Non-International Armed Conflicts 1: Ad-hoc Regulation 2: Systematic Regulation through International Humanitarian Law 3: Regulation through a Body of International Law 4: The Sources of the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict Part II: The Substantive Law of Non-International Armed Conflict 5: Identifying a Non-International Armed Conflict: Armed Conflicts and Internal Tensions and Disturbances 6: Identifying a Non-International Armed Conflict: International and Non-International Armed Conflicts 7: Scope of Application 8: Protection of Civilians and Persons Hors de Combat 9: Conduct of Hostilities 10: Implementation and Non-Judicial Enforcement 11: Judicial Enforcement Part III: Moving Forward 12: Developments Needed in the Law Conclusion ...
