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- Preliminary Material
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents–Summary
- Contents–Detailed
- Table of Cases
- European Court of Human Rights
- Inter‐American Court of Human Rights
- International Court of Justice
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Permanent Court of International Justice
- Post World War ii Cases
- Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- National Courts
- Table of Instruments
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Acronyms of Armed Groups
- Main Text
- 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
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The traditional sources
- 3 The less traditional ‘sources’
- 4 Conclusion
- Part II The Substantive Law of Non-International Armed Conflict
- 5 Identifying a Non-International Armed Conflict: Armed Conflicts and Internal Tensions and Disturbances
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The non-definition approach
- 3 The definition approach
- 4 Prerequisites for particular rules to apply
- 5 Characterization of the violence
- 6 Conclusion
- 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
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Humane treatment
- 3 Persons benefitting from particular protections
- 3.1 Wounded, sick, and shipwrecked
- 3.2 Medical and religious personnel
- 3.3 Dead persons
- 3.4 Missing persons
- 3.5 Displaced persons
- 3.6 Interned and detained persons
- 3.7 Persons subject to the criminal process
- 3.8 Journalists
- 3.9 Women
- 3.10 Children
- 3.11 Peacekeeping missions
- 3.12 Humanitarian assistance missions
- 4 Humanitarian assistance
- 5 Conclusion
- 9 Conduct of Hostilities
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Targeting
- 2.1 Underlying principles
- 2.2 Attacks against the civilian population
- 2.3 Indiscriminate attacks
- 2.4 Disproportionate attacks
- 2.5 Precautions
- 2.6 Beneficiaries of protection
- 2.7 Investigations relating to losses of life
- 2.8 Objects benefiting from particular protections
- 3 Means of combat
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The general rules
- 3.3 Specifically prohibited weapons
- 3.3.1 Poison and poisoned weapons
- 3.3.2 Biological and bacteriological weapons
- 3.3.3 Gas and chemical weapons
- 3.3.4 Incendiary weapons
- 3.3.5 Laser weapons designed to cause permanent blindness
- 3.3.6 Explosive bullets
- 3.3.7 Expanding bullets
- 3.3.8 Booby-traps and anti-personnel mines
- 3.3.9 Cluster munitions
- 3.3.10 Non-detectable fragments
- 3.3.11 Explosive remnants of war
- 4 Methods of combat
- 5 Conclusion
- 10 Implementation and Non-Judicial Enforcement
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Internal mechanisms
- 3 Responses to the other side: belligerent reprisals
- 4 Third parties
- 5 Conclusion
- 11 Judicial Enforcement
- 5 Identifying a Non-International Armed Conflict: Armed Conflicts and Internal Tensions and Disturbances
- Part III Moving Forward
- 12 Developments Needed in the Law
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Substantive norms
- 3 Enforcement and implementation of the law
- 4 Methodology: armed groups and the creation of the law
- 5 A concrete proposal
- Conclusion
- 12 Developments Needed in the Law
- Further Material
