Tuesday, May 8, 2012

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 93, no. 882, June 2011) is out. The theme is "Understanding Armed Groups and the Applicable Law." Contents include:
  • Understanding Armed Groups and the Applicable Law
    • Interview with Ali Ahmad Jalali - Distinguished Professor at the National Defense University, Washington, DC.
  • Today's Armed Groups: Structure, Actions and Strategic Options
    • Arnaud Blin, Armed groups and intra-state conflicts: the dawn of a new era?
    • Abdulkader H. Sinno, Armed groups' organizational structure and their strategic options
    • Achim Wennmann, Economic dimensions of armed groups: profiling the financing, costs, and agendas and their implications for mediated engagements
    • Olivier Bangerter, Reasons why armed groups choose to respect international humanitarian law or not
  • Armed Groups and International Law
    • Zakaria Daboné, International law: armed groups in a state-centric system
    • Marco Sassòli & Yuval Shany, DEBATE: Should the obligations of states and armed groups under international humanitarian law really be equal?
    • Jann K. Kleffner, The applicability of international humanitarian law to organized armed groups
    • Sandesh Sivakumaran, Lessons for the law of armed conflict from commitments of armed groups: identification of legitimate targets and prisoners of war
    • A collection of codes of conduct issued by armed groups
  • Selected Articles on International Humanitarian Law
    • Eric Stover, Mychelle Balthazard & K. Alexa Koenig, Confronting Duch: civil party participation in Case 001 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia