Frits Kalshoven and Liesbeth Zegveld
CONSTRAINTS
ON THE
WAGING
OF
WAR
An Introduction to International Humanitarian Law
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I must retrace my steps, and must deprive those who wage war of nearly all the privileges which I seemed to grant, yet did not grant to them. For when I first set out to explain this part of the law of nations I bore witness that many things are said to be
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lawful
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or
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permissible
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for the reason that they are done withimpunity, in part also because coactive tribunals lend to them their authority; things which nevertheless, either deviate from the rule of right (whether this has any basis in law strictly so called, or in the admonitions of other virtues), or at any rate may be omitted on higher grounds and with greater praise among good men.
Grotius:
De jure belli ac pacis
Book III, Chapter X, Section I.1.
(English translation: Francis G. Kelsey, Oxford, 1925).
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........................................................ 11I 1 Object and purpose ............................................... 12I 2 Custom and treaty ................................................. 15I 3 Implementation and enforcement ................................. 16I 4 Structure .......................................................... 17CHAPTER II
...... 19II 1 The Hague ........................................................ 19II 2 Geneva ........................................................... 26II 3 New York ......................................................... 29II 4 Confluence: 1977 and beyond .................................... 32CHAPTER III
...................... 37III 1 Character of the law ............................................... 37III 2 Scope of application .............................................. 38III 3 The Hague ........................................................ 403.1
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Constraints on the waging of war: an introduction to international humanitarian law
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