International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice

This note including types of armed conflict, International Armed Conflicts, when does a conflict end?, Belligerent Occupation, Military Control, when do us speak of Occupied Territory?, how long an occupying power maintain conrol over the occupied territory?, how does a situation of belligerent occu...

This continues from the previous notes. This are including Non-International Armed Conflict, Why the distinction between NIACs and IACs are very important?, Common Article 3 Geneva Conventions, Which rights and duties can we find in Common Article 3?, Additional Protocol II, Criteria for Common Arti...

This note includes Foreign Interventions, Does foreign intervention change the character or the classification of a conflict?, ICJ 1986 Nicaragua Judgement, ICTY 1999 Tadic Appeals Judgement, NIAC spill-over, can this so-called NIAC spill-over turn the underlying situation into an IAC between the N...

This note includes the development of new weapons technologies, distinction (means of warfare, the methods of warfare, rule of limited warfare, the principle of distinction, combatants, how do we define the term civilians? , what are military objectives? , but which objects are civilian in nature?, ...

This is including the prohibition of superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering, what do "superfluous injury" and "unnecessary suffering" terms mean exactly?, the prohibition of discrimination attacks, and new weapons and technology.

This note focused on the wounded and sick, including How are the wounded and sick defined?, Which rights do the wounded and sick have?, Medical personnel, What do we mean by medical personnel?, Medical units, How do we define medical transports?, Establishment of special zones, The distinctive emb...

This note include Legal status, Prisoners of war, Protection of POWs (How does the third Geneva Convention protect POWs?), Civilians in International Armed Conflicts, Detention of persons in non-international armed conflict, civilians in the hands of the enemy, Protection of enemy civilians (Ho...

This is including protection of women, children, journalist, war correspondents and non-international armed conflicts.

This note includes demands for compensation, meanings of implementation and enforcement, prosecuting war crimes, what are, actually war crimes?, rome statue ICC article 8, who can be convicted for war crimes?, and where can accused war criminals be prosecuted?.