Mbata - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Once we have identified the concept of an (international) armed conflict, we can then turn to the vexed question of the rules that govern the classification of combatants—that is the process which determines which combatants are privileged or unprivileged as a matter of international humanitarian law. The need for this purpose is rooted in the notion of prisoner-of-war status. We shall come to terms with the considerable energies that the law has spent on developing the rules for classificatio...