Securing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law: The Promise and Limits of Contemporary Enforcement Mechanisms
Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 213-220, October 2010
Posted: 23 Jan 2011 Last revised: 2 Feb 2011
Date Written: January 24, 2010
Abstract
This report highlights several contributions to an international humanitarian law (IHL) conference held in November 2009. The conference was organised by the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Israel and the Occupied and Autonomous Territories Delegation. The conference theme was 'Securing Compliance with IHL: The Promise and Limits of Contemporary Enforcement Mechanisms.'
Conference papers addressed a range of contemporary IHL issues including: whether the Human Rights Council has a mandate to examine alleged breaches of IHL; the complementarity debate (IHL/IHRL); the problem of human shields; UN Security Council practice with regard to violations of IHL; and whether IHL should be reformed to provide non-State organised armed groups with greater incentives to comply with IHL during non-international armed conflict.
Keywords: International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, Enforcement, Compliace, Complementarity, Non-International Armed Conflict, Non-State Actors, Non-State Organized Armed Groups, Gaza War, Human Shields, Human Rights Council, Occupation, International Criminal Court
JEL Classification: K33
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