Human rights in armed conflict : law, practice, policy / Gerd Oberleitner.

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.©2015

Oberleitner, Gerd, 1967- author.

01-01-2015

xx, 412 pages ; 26 cm

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Human rights

War (International law)

Violence

Legislation

Cases (Law)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781107087545

"It is now widely accepted that international human rights law applies in situations of armed conflict alongside international humanitarian law, but the contours and consequences of this development remain unclear. This book revisits, organizes and contextualizes the debate on human rights in armed conflict and explores the legal challenges, operational consequences and policy implications of resorting to human rights in situations of inter- and intra-state violence. "--

Pt. I Human rights in armed conflict: history of an idea -- 1.From medieval sources to modernity -- 1.1.Mercy, chivalry, self-interest and justice -- 1.2.Self-interest, common concern and justice -- 1.3.Early modern Europe: war as a public activity -- 1.4.War and peace in the emerging law of nations -- 1.5.Enlightenment: national wars and individual rights -- 2.The science of warfare and the progress of civilization -- 2.1.The positivist nineteenth century -- 2.2.Lieber Code -- 2.3.Laws of war as a mission civilisatrice -- 2.4.Martens Clause and the dictates of public conscience -- 2.5.Inter arma caritas: Henri Dunant and the Red Cross -- 3.1945: whither war? -- 3.1.1914--1945: war as trauma and war as crime -- 3.2.United Nations and the despicable laws of war -- 3.3.Universal Declaration of Human Rights: human rights for peace -- 3.4."International humanitarian law": what's in a name? -- 3.5.Geneva Conventions of 1949 and human rights --Contents note continued: 4.Human rights in armed conflict -- 4.1.Geneva, New York, Tehran: World Conference of Human Rights 1968 -- 4.2.International Committee of the Red Cross and human rights -- 4.3.Additional Protocols of 1977 -- 4.4.Fundamental standards of humanity -- 4.5."Humanitarian rights": humanitarian law in human rights documents -- 4.6.International Committee of the Red Cross and "Fundamental Guarantees" -- 4.7.Role of civil society -- 4.8.Humanity as grace and humanity as right -- pt. II Human rights and humanitarian law: theory -- 5.Exclusivity: the misconceived idea of lex specialis -- 5.1.Separation and self-contained regimes -- 5.2.Special regimes and the fragmentation of international law -- 5.3.Lex specialis in international law -- 5.4.International Court of Justice and lex specialis -- 5.5.Exclusivist position of the United States -- 5.6.Lex specialis: an inadequate device -- (a).Distinguishing "general" and "special" --Contents note continued: (b).Norm conflict or norm interpretation? -- (c).A bi-directional relationship -- (d).Abandoning lex specialis: from dogma to pragmatism -- 6.Complementarity: maximizing protection -- 6.1.A variegated approach -- 6.2.Interpretation, cumulative application and filling gaps -- (a).Systematic coherence -- (b).Civil and political rights -- (c).Economic, social and cultural rights -- (d).Indivisibility of human rights -- 6.3.Maximum protection or graduated approach? -- 7.Integration: the transformative influence of human rights -- 7.1.Neither genus nor species -- 7.2.Towards a human rights-based jus in bello -- pt. III Human rights and humanitarian law: challenges and commonalities -- 8.The right to life: the limits of human rights in armed conflict? -- 8.1.Paradigmatic differences: war-fighting and law enforcement -- 8.2.Proportionality revisited -- 8.3.Lawful killing or duty to capture? -- 8.4.A unified use of force regime? --Contents note continued: 9.The extra-territorial application of human rights: functional universality -- 9.1.Reach of human rights -- 9.2.Legal basis of the extra-territorial application of human rights -- (a).International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- (b).Jurisdiction in human rights treaties -- (c).Case law: territorial and personal jurisdiction -- 9.3.A capability approach: towards functional universality -- 10.War as emergency: derogation -- 10.1.The idea and law of derogation -- 10.2."A threat to the life of the nation": war as a state of emergency -- 10.3.Derogation gap and the limits of derogation -- 11.Human rights and humanitarian obligations -- 11.1.Reframing rights and obligations: respect, protect, fulfil -- 11.2.The individual in humanitarian law -- 12.Operationalizing human rights in armed conflict -- 12.1.The idea of human rights and the image of the warrior -- 12.2.Rights and risks -- pt. IV The dynamics of war and law --Contents note continued: 13.The changing character of war -- 13.1.War as risk management -- 13.2.New wars, old laws -- 13.3.Terrorism and "trans-national" conflicts -- 13.4.War-fighting and law enforcement -- 13.5.Armed force in peace support operations -- 14.Governing internal armed violence -- 14.1.Towards a human rights law of internal armed conflicts? -- 14.2.Role of non-state actors -- (a).Legal obligations of non-state actors in armed conflicts -- (b).Developments in practice -- 15.Human rights in situations of occupation -- 15.1.Law of occupation: governing fragility in hostility -- 15.2.Human rights and occupation law -- 15.3.Identifying the duties of Occupying Powers -- 15.4.Occupation between preservation and transformation -- 16.Context: the humanization of international law -- 16.1.Humanity in international law -- 16.2.Human security and armed conflict -- pt. V Enforcement: practice and potential -- 17.United Nations Human Rights Council: monitoring armed conflicts --Contents note continued: 17.1.A mandate for armed conflicts? -- 17.2.The Council's practice -- 17.3.Special procedures of the Human Rights Council and armed conflict -- 17.4.Special sessions, fact-finding missions and commissions of inquiry -- 17.5.Universal Periodic Review -- 18.United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -- 19.United Nations human rights treaty bodies -- 19.1.Human Rights Committee -- 19.2.Committee on the Rights of the Child -- 19.3.Other human rights treaty bodies -- 20.The Inter-American human rights system -- 20.1.Inter-American Commission on Human Rights -- (a).Applying humanitarian law -- (b).Interpreting human rights law -- 20.2.Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- (a).Las Palmeras: delimiting interpretation -- (b).Beyond Las Palmeras -- 21.The European Court of Human Rights -- 21.1.From Cyprus v. Turkey to Al-Skeini: international conflicts and occupation -- 21.2.Internal violence: the Kurdish cases -- 21.3.Internal violence: Chechnya --Contents note continued: 21.4.Exceptional references to humanitarian law -- 21.5.A European human rights law of armed conflict? -- 22.The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights -- 23.Monitoring and litigating humanitarian rights: prospects -- 23.1.Lack of humanitarian law enforcement -- 23.2.Human rights bodies in armed conflict: lessons learned -- 23.3.Monitoring human rights and humanitarian law -- 23.4.Duty to investigate and the "right to truth" -- 23.5.Individual complaints and litigation -- (a).Importance of legal proceedings -- (b).Humanitarian norms before human rights bodies -- (c).Reforming individual complaints procedures? -- 23.6.Remedy and compensation -- 23.7.Human rights bodies in armed conflict: challenges and potential.

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