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Book SynopsisThis book revisits, organizes and contextualizes the debate on human rights in armed conflict from a historic as well as a contemporary perspective. It considers and explores the legal challenges, practical consequences and policy implications of resorting to human rights in situations of armed conflict.
Trade Review'This is a formidable undertaking … The care [Oberleitner] takes in considering the competing arguments, coupled with his lucid style, make for instructive as well as enjoyable reading.' Human Rights Law Review
'In Human Rights in Armed Conflict, Gerd Oberleitner offers a meticulous analysis and asks profound questions about the 'purpose, nature and scope of the whole jus in bello' … a very welcome addition to the literature on human rights in armed conflicts.' Ezequiel Heffes, International Review of the Red Cross
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Human Rights in Armed Conflict: History of an Idea: 1. From mediaeval sources to modernity; 2. The science of warfare and the progress of civilization; 3. 1945: whither war?; 4. Human rights in armed conflict; Part II. Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Theory: 5. Exclusivity: the misconceived idea of lex specialis; 6. Complementarity: maximizing protection; 7. Integration: the transformative influence of human rights; Part III. Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Challenges and Commonalities: 8. The right to life: the limits of human rights in armed conflict?; 9. The extraterritorial application of human rights: functional universality; 10. War as emergency: derogation; 11. Human rights and humanitarian obligations; 12. Operationalising human rights in armed conflict; Part IV. The Dynamics of War and Law: 13. The changing character of war; 14. Governing internal armed violence; 15. Human rights in situations of occupation; 16. Context: the humanization of international law; Part V. Enforcement: Practice and Potential: 17. United Nations Human Rights Council: monitoring armed conflicts; 18. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; 19. United Nations human rights treaty bodies; 20. The Inter-American human rights system; 21. The European Court of Human Rights; 22. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights; 23. Monitoring and litigating humanitarian rights: prospects; Conclusion.
