The Application of International Humanitarian Law by the Israel Defense Forces

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amichai Cohen ◽  
Eyal Ben-Ari
Keyword(s):  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Advocate General ◽  
The Past ◽  
Junior Officers ◽  
Military Commanders ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Israel Defense Forces ◽  
The Military

This chapter describes how increased juridification and demands to apply international humanitarian law (IHL) have influenced the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The authors analyze the IDF’s compliance with IHL and other legal frameworks through a multilevel and multidimensional model of military compliance describing the law and external institutions involved in applying it. The past decades have seen the relatively autonomous sphere of the military increasingly come under judicial overview. Judicial and international pressures have also increased the role of the operational legal advisors. The chapter ends by discussing the ceremonies intended to promote compliance with IHL involving soldiers and junior officers. It is based on interviews (with Israeli academic experts, members of nongovernmental organizations [NGOs], and military commanders), off-the-record conversations with members of the IDF’s Military Advocate General, and newspaper articles, reports of NGOs, and secondary material.

Everybody's War

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
War Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

This book explores the history of health care in postcolonial state-making and the fragmentation of the health system in Syria during the conflict. It analyzes the role of international humanitarian law (IHL) in enabling attacks on health facilities and distinguishes the differences between humanitarian solutions and refugee populations’ expectations. It also describes the way in which humanitarian actors have fed the war economy. The book highlights the lived experience of siege in all its layers. It examines how humanitarian actors have become part of the information wars that have raged throughout the past ten years and how they have chosen to position themselves in the face of grave violations of IHL.

India: talking with the military

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (314) ◽  
pp. 568-568
Keyword(s):  
Red Cross ◽  
Modern World ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Advocate General ◽  
The Military

A two-day seminar entitled “International humanitarian law: its significance in the modern world” and organized jointly by the department of the Judge Advocate General of the Indian army, the ICRC and the Indian Red Cross Society was held in New Delhi on 28 and 29 August 1996. It was the second seminar of its kind, the first having taken place in 1988.

From Cold War to Hotspots – The Changing Needs for Dissemination of International Humanitarian Law in Sweden

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-539
Author(s):  
Kristina Lindvall ◽  
Cecilia Hellman
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractThis article explores the past and current role of dissemination in Sweden of international humanitarian law (IHL) – focusing on the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols. Key questions are who the relevant actors in need of knowledge in IHL today are, and why dissemination still is important for Sweden, despite the end of the Cold War threat. The authors of this article argue that Sweden today lacks a thoroughlythought-out and modern approach to questions relating to dissemination, and that negligence in properly addressing and understanding the role of dissemination could lead to a weakening of Sweden's position as an adamant adherent and advocate of IHL. Today's complex world, with its diversified threats to national and international peace and security, calls for a revised and articulated position on dissemination of IHL.

Women, Security, and Peace: A Reading in Resolution 1325

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 288-303
Author(s):  
SINAN RASHID ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
Geneva Convention ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past

security and peace are two concepts closely related to the rights of women, especially in the past two decades. In October 2000, Resolution 1325 was issued by the United Nations Security Council regarding women and armed conflicts, based on the role that women can play in building peace and achieving security, whether on the basis of The national or international level, especially that the women most affected during wars and armed conflicts, and some jurisprudential opinions began to take their way into international legislation and the rules of international humanitarian law regarding the protection of non-combatants and civilians in general and women in particular, and the Geneva Convention in 1949 and its annex to the Second Geneva Convention in 1949went 1977 to the necessity of protecting women against any assault, physical violence, or humiliation of all kinds. Therefore, the importance of the topic lies in knowing the role of Resolution in protecting women's rights, not to mention the need to know how women play a role in preserving international peace

IDF Counterinsurgency in the Second Intifada

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-72
Author(s):  
Devorah S. Manekin
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Operational Approach ◽  
Legal Requirement ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Second Intifada ◽  
Israel Defense Forces

This chapter discusses counterinsurgency during the evolution of Israel's five-decade occupation of the Palestinian Territories based on the perspectives of ordinary combatants and supplemented by media and non-governmental organisation (NGO) reports. It provides a brief overview of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) approach to counterinsurgency and gives detailed analysis of specific practices implemented in the Second Intifada. The chapter describes the role of civilians in the Israeli approach to counterinsurgency and its importance in revealing a conflict between the principles of international humanitarian law and operational approach to counterinsurgency. It also examines the basic contradiction between the legal requirement to protect civilians and the operational notion of targeting them. It highlights the IDF's counterinsurgency tactics in the Second Intifada that responded to changes in the nature and intensity of the insurgency, domestic politics, and international factors.

Debate: The role of international criminal justice in fostering compliance with international humanitarian law

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (895-896) ◽  
pp. 775-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Jenks ◽  
Guido Acquaviva
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
International Criminal Justice ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
International Courts ◽  
General Deterrence ◽  
Military Commanders

Much has been written about the “deterrent” role of international courts and tribunals in preventing potential atrocities. Since the establishment of thead hoctribunals and the International Criminal Court, the international community has sought to anchor the legitimacy of international justice in the “fight against impunity”. Yet recent studies have suggested that an overly broad characterization of international courts and tribunals as “actors of deterrence” might misplace expectations and fail to adequately capture how deterrence works – namely, at different stages, within a net of institutions, and affecting different actors at different times.1TheReviewinvited two practitioners to share their perspectives on the concrete effects of international criminal justice on fostering compliance with international humanitarian law. Chris Jenks questions the “general deterrence” role of international criminal justice, contending that the influence of complicated and often prolonged judicial proceedings on the ultimate behaviour of military commanders and soldiers is limited. Guido Acquaviva agrees that “general deterrence”, if interpreted narrowly, is the wrong lens through which to be looking at international criminal justice. However, he disagrees that judicial decisions are not considered by military commanders, and argues that it is not the individual role of each court or tribunal that matters; rather, it is their overall contribution to an ever more comprehensive system of accountability that can ultimately foster better compliance with international humanitarian law.

The ICRC Library goes digital

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Reference Library ◽  
Parallel Development ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past

The ICRC Library is home to unique collections retracing the parallel development of humanitarian action and law during the past 150+ years. With the core of these collections now digitized, this reference library on international humanitarian law (IHL) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a resource available to all, anytime, anywhere.

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