The assigned readings will focus on various ways to think about the legal regulation of violence and on the history of legal efforts to organize and institutionalize international affairs.

Emphasis will also be placed upon the relationship between international humanitarian law and human rights law. It will examine the history and sources of international humanitarian law, its relationship with the ius ad bellum, and the basic principles that have governed its development (such as the principles of distinction and proportionality).īeyond the basic principles, it will examine a range of contemporary challenges to the law of armed conflict such as the problems inherent in and importance of classifying conflicts, privileged and unprivileged belligerents, the protection of the civilian population, and the regulation of means and methods of warfare. This half unit module provides an introduction to the law of armed conflict (international humanitarian law). SOAS Development for Transformation Centre (DevTraC) London Asia Pacific Centre for Social Science

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Journal of armed conflict law