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Book SynopsisThe rights and responsibilities of the individual are at the centre of today''s armed conflicts in a way that they have never been before. This process of ''individualization'', which challenges the primacy of the sovereign state, is driven by normative developments related to human rights that have elevated human-centric conceptions of security and created a new class of international crimes, as well as by technological and strategic developments that can both empower individuals as military actors and enable either the targeting or protection of particular individuals.The Individualization of War examines the status of individuals in contemporary armed conflict in three main capacities: as subject to violence but deserving of protection; as liable to harm because of their responsibility for attacks on others; and as agents who can be held accountable for the perpetration of crimes. This book presents a novel conceptualization of the phenomenon of individualization, including how it i
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding IndividualisationJennifer Welsh, Dapo Akande, and David Rodin: Part I Extending Individualisation in the Ethics and Law of Armed Conflict 1: Adil Haque: After War and Peace 2: Anne Peters: The Direct Rights of Individuals in the International Law of Armed Conflict 3: Bradley Jay Strawser: The Supererogatory Moral Risks of Military Service Part II Rethinking Individualisation: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives 4: Victor Tadros: Collective Values in Just and Unjust Wars 5: Benjamin Valentino: Situationism and the Individualisation of Responsibility in War Part III The Consequences of Individualisation 6: Paola Gaeta and Abhimanyu George Jain: The Individualisation of IHL Rules through Criminalisation for War Crimes: Some (un)intended Consequences 7: Sarah Nouwen: Tensions between the Pursuit of Criminal Accountability and Other International Policy Agendas in Situations of Armed Conflict 8: Paul D. Williams: Two Decades of Civilian Protection Mandates for United Nations Peacekeepers Part IV Beyond Formal Armed Conflict 9: Pablo Kalmanovitz and Miriam Bradley: Individualisation of Collectivisation in Contexts of Organized Criminal Violence: The Case of Mexico's 'War on Organised Crime'
