GASSER Hans-Peter, International Humanitarian Law, an Introduction, Geneva, Henry-Dunant Institute, 1993, 92 pp. GARDAM Judith, Humanitarian Law, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999, 570 pp. It is nevertheless important to underline that a situation can evolve from one type of armed conflict to another, depending on the facts prevailing at a certain moment.BEST Geoffrey, War and Law since 1945, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, 454 pp.īOUCHET-SAULNIER Françoise, The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law, Lanham (Maryland), Oxford, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, 2nd ed., 555 pp.īUIRETTE Patricia & LAGRANGE Philippe, Le droit international humanitaire, Paris, La Découverte, 2008, 122 pp.ĬARIO Jérôme, Le droit des conflits armés, Panazol, Lavauzelle Éditions, Centre de Recherche des Écoles de Saint-Cyr, 2002, 192 pp.ĭAVID Éric, Principes de droit des conflits armés, Brussels, Bruylant, 4th ed., 2008, 1117 pp.ĭEYRA Michel, Le droit dans la guerre, Paris, Gualino, 2009, 283 pp.ĭINSTEIN Yoram, The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict, Cambridge, CUP, 2010, 320 pp.ĭJIENA WEMBOU Michel-Cyr & FALL Daouda, Le droit international humanitaire, théorie générale et réalités africaines, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2000, 431 pp.įLECK Dieter (ed.), Handbook of Humanitarian Law, Oxford, OUP, 2nd ed., 2008, 770 pp. Legally speaking, no other type of armed conflict exists. IHL treaty law also establishes a distinction between non-international armed conflicts in the meaning of common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and non-international armed conflicts falling within the definition provided in Art. Non-international armed conflicts, between governmental forces and non-governmental armed groups, or between such groups only.

International armed conflicts, opposing two or more States, and International humanitarian law distinguishes two types of armed conflicts, namely: It is on this basis that the ICRC takes this opportunity to present the prevailing legal opinion on the definition of ' international armed conflict ' and ' non-international armed conflict ' under International Humanitarian Law, the branch of international law which governs armed conflict. The States parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions have entrusted the ICRC, through the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, ' to work for the understanding and dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts and to prepare any development thereof ' Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, art.

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