Crimes of war : what the public should know /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gutman, Roy (Editor), Rieff, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton Company, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Roy Gutman and David Rieff
  • Foreword / Richard Goldstone
  • International humanitarian law: an overview / Lawrence Weschler
  • Act of war / David Turns
  • Afghanistan / Patricia Gossman
  • Apartheid / Steven R. Ratner
  • Arab-Israeli wars / Benny Morris
  • Israel's views of the application of IHL to the west Bank and the Gaza strip / Kenneth Anderson
  • Armistice / Howard S. Levie
  • Belligerent status / Ewen Allison and Robert K. Goldman
  • Biological experiments / Sheldon H. Harris [see also medical experiments on POWs]
  • Biological weapons / Terence Taylor
  • Blockade as act of war / Christopher Greenwood
  • Bosnia / Florence Hartmann
  • Bullets [see weapons]
  • Cambodia / Sydney Schanberg
  • Carpet or area bombing / Horst Fischer
  • Cease-fire [see armistice]
  • Chechnya / Barry Renfrew
  • Chemical weapons / Peter Pringle [see also Poisonous weapons]
  • Child soldiers / Anna Cataldi and Jimmie Briggs
  • Children as killers / Corinne Dufka
  • Civil patrols / Ewen Allison and Robert K. Goldman
  • Civil war / A.P.V. Rogers [see also Belligerent status]
  • Civilian immunity / Heike Spieker
  • Civilians, illegal targeting of / Joel Greenberg
  • Cluster bombs [see Weapons]
  • Collateral damage / Horst Fischer
  • Collective punishment / Daoud Kuttab
  • Colombia / Douglas Farah
  • Combatant status / A.P.V. Rogers [see also Soldiers, rights of]
  • Command responsibility / Nomi Bar-Yaacov
  • Compelling military service / Patrick J. Sloyan
  • Concentration camps / Ed Vulliamy
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of / Gérard Prunier
  • Courts and tribunals / Charles Garraway
  • Crimes against humanity / M. Cherif Bassiouni
  • Crimes against peace / Steven R. Ratner
  • Cultural property and historical monuments / Peter Maass
  • Customary law / Theodor Meron
  • Customary law: the ICRC study / Burrus M. Carnahan
  • Dangerous forces; damns, dikes, and nuclear stations / Eric Rathfelder
  • Darfur / John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen
  • Dead and wounded / H. Wayne Elliott
  • Death squads / Jean-Marie Simon
  • Deportation / Roy Gutman
  • Detention and interrogation / Dana Priest
  • Disappearances / Corinne Dufka [see also death squads]
  • Distinction, principles of [see civilian immunity]
  • Due process / Gideon Levy
  • Due process rights
  • Environmental warfare / Mark Perry and Ed Miles
  • Kuwaiti oil wells / Robert Block
  • Ethnic cleansing / Roger Cohen
  • Evacuation of civilians from the battlefield / H. Wayne Elliott
  • Executions, extrajudicial / Don Oberdorfer
  • The camera as witness / Alex Levac
  • Extermination of civilian population [see crimes against humanity and genocide]
  • Food convoys [see humanitarian aid, blocking of]
  • Forced labor / John Ryle
  • Free fire zones / Lewis M. Simons
  • Gases [see chemical weapons and poisonous weapons]
  • Genocide / Diane F. Orentlicher
  • Gray areas in international humanitarian law / Ewen Allison and Robert K. Goldman
  • Guantanamo / Jess Bravin
  • Guerillas / Jon Lee Anderson
  • Gulf war / Frank Smyth
  • Health care systems / Eric Stover
  • Hors de combat / Kurt Schork
  • Hospitals / Charles Lane
  • Hostages / Sean Maguire
  • Humanitarian aid, blocking of / David f
  • Humanitarian intervention / David Rieff and Anthony Dworkin
  • Identification / H. Wayne Elliott [see also dead and wounded]
  • Immunity from attack / Emma Daly
  • Incitements to genocide / Colette Braeckman
  • Indiscriminate attack / Roy Gutman and Daound Kuttab
  • Types of indiscriminate attack
  • Internal displacement / Maud S. Beelman
  • International committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) / Michael Ignatieff
  • International humanitarian fact-finding commission / Frits Kalshoven
  • International vs. internal armed conflicts / Steven R. Ratner
  • Common article 3
  • Iran-Iraq War / Jonathan C. Randal
  • Iraq / Thom Shanker
  • Irregulars / Ewen Allison and Robert K. Goldman
  • Journalists, protection of / William A. Orme Jr.
  • Journalists in peril / Frank Smyth
  • Judicial proceedings [see due process]
  • Jurisdiction universal / Françoise Hampson
  • Jus ad bellum/Jus in bello / Karma Nabulsi
  • Just and unjust war / Karma Nabulsi
  • Labor camps [see concentration camps and forced labor]
  • Legitimate military targets / Gaby Rado
  • Levée en masse / Karma Nabulsi
  • Limited war / Peter Rowe
  • Mass Graves / Elizabeth Neuffer
  • Medical experiments on POWs / Sheldon H. Harris
  • Medical transports / Michael Ignatieff
  • Medical personnel / Eric Stover
  • Medico-legal investigations of war crimes / David Rohde
  • Mercenaries / Elizabeth Rubin
  • Military objectives / Hamilton DeSaussure
  • Mines / John Ryle
  • Murder of civilians [see willful killing]
  • Nuclear weapons / Burrus M. Carnahan
  • Occupation / George Packer
  • Paramilitaries / Christiane Amanpour
  • Parlementaires / Ewen Allison
  • Partisans [see civil patrols]
  • Perfidy and treachery / David Rohde
  • Persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds / William Shawcross
  • Pillage / Thomas Goltz
  • Poisonous weapons / Gwynne Roberts
  • Prisoners of war / H. Wayne Elliott
  • Prisoners of war, non repatriation of / Mark Huband
  • Private military firms / P.W. Singer
  • Property, civilian, destruction of / Amira Hass
  • Proportionality, principles of / Horst Fischer
  • Protected persons / Heike Spieker
  • Quarter, giving no / John Burns
  • Rape [see sexual violence]
  • Red Cross/Red Crescent emblem / Christian Jennings
  • Refoulement / David Rieff
  • Refugees, righrts of David Rieff
  • Reprisal / Frits Kalshoven
  • Reprisal Killings / Kenneth Anderson
  • Resistance fighters [see guerillas]
  • Rwanda / Mark Huband
  • Safety zones / Adam Roberts
  • Sanctions / tom Gjelten
  • Sexual violence / Thom Shanker
  • Sexual violence: enslavement / George Rodrigue
  • Sexual violence: systematic rape / Alexandra Stiglmayer
  • Shields / Robert Block
  • Sick and wounded / Eric Stover
  • Siege / Tom Gjelten
  • Slavery / E. Benjamin Skinner
  • Soldiers, rights of / Peter Rowe
  • Starvation / Marita Vihervuori
  • Terrorism / Anthony Dworking
  • Torture / Nicole Pope
  • Total war / Peter Rowe
  • Training in international humanitarian law / Michael H. Hoffman
  • Transfer of civilians / Thomas Goltz
  • Undefended towns / Adam Roberts
  • United Nations and the Geneva conventions / Roy Gutman
  • Unlawful combatants [see combatant status]
  • Unlawful confinement /Ed Vulliamy
  • Victims, rights of / Lindsey Hilsum
  • Wanton destruction / Jeremy Bowen
  • War crimes, categories of / Steven R. Ratner
  • Water supplies and works, destruction of / Emma Daly
  • Weapons / Burrus M. Carnahan
  • Willful killing / Peter Maass
  • Willfulness / A.P.V. Rogers....