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International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza. [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics
ABSTRACT International Humanitarian Law (IHL), specifically Article 18 of the IV Geneva Convention, affords special protection to civilian hospitals. This special protection is waived, however, under certain circumstances specified in Article 19. Such conditions to waive the special protection of hospitals are now being used by Israel to justify the ...
Lederman Z.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Military Intervention on Request in Jus Ad Bellum and Jus In Bello and the question of recognition of governments

open access: yesGöttingen Journal of International Law, 2022
Over the past decades, foreign interventions in internal conflicts upon the request of host governments have turned into a common practice. These instances have proved to be particularly challenging both from a jus ad bellum and a jus in bello point of ...
Chiara Redaelli
doaj   +1 more source

Fighting with words: humanitarian security and the changing role of law in contemporary armed conflict

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 870-890, October 2023., 2023
Violence against humanitarians is a commonplace phenomenon in contemporary armed conflict. This paper examines how the manipulation of international legal principles for political or military purposes, a practice known as ‘lawfare’, impacts humanitarian security in conflict‐affected areas.
Iida‐Maria Tammi
wiley   +1 more source

Historical development of the jus ad bellum [PDF]

open access: yesRegulating the Use of Force in International Law, 2021
Russell Buchan, Nicholas Tsagourias
openaire   +2 more sources

Should Autonomous Weapons Need a Reason to Kill?

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 886-900, November 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Purves et al. argue against deploying automated weapons because they fail to act for the right reason. Given that soldiers do not necessarily act in an ideal way, I argue that it is morally preferable to deploy autonomous weapons that are incapable of acting for the wrong reason over combatants that are likely (although not guaranteed) to act ...
Garry Young
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Ethics of War: Jus ad Bellum, Jus in Bello, and the Natural Environment

open access: yesConatus, 2023
The conduct of hostilities is very bad for the environment, yet relatively little attention has been focused on environmental military ethics by just war theorists and revisionist philosophers of war.
Tamar Meisels
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assisting Rebels Abroad: The Ethics of Violence at the Limits of the Defensive Paradigm

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 38-55, February 2022., 2022
Abstract In this article, I analyse the theory and practice of interventions in foreign civil wars to assist rebels fighting against violently oppressive government. I argue that the indirect nature of this kind of intervention gives rise to political complications that are either absent from or less obvious in humanitarian interventions aimed chiefly ...
Christopher J. Finlay
wiley   +1 more source

Saving Lives and Limiting the Means and Methods of Warfare: Five Indonesian Tafsīr Views

open access: yesAl-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies, 2022
Protection of non-combatants and restrictions on methods of warfare are two essential aspects of jus in bello. Dawoody’s and Hashmi’s theory states that the classical Islamic scientific tradition discusses jus in bello much more than contemporary Islamic
Ulya Fikriyati, Ah. Fawaid
doaj   +1 more source

Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the jus ad bellum

open access: yesJournal on the Use of Force and International Law, 2022
The 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of – or ‘special military operation’ in – Ukraine has sent shock waves across the globe. In this editorial the Editors-in-Chief of JUFIL examine in detail the legal justifications advanced by President Putin for ...
James A. Green, C. Henderson, T. Ruys
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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