Thursday, October 8, 2015

Krieger: Inducing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law: Lessons from the African Great Lakes Region

Heike Krieger (Freie Universität Berlin - Law) has published Inducing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law: Lessons from the African Great Lakes Region (Cambridge Univ. Press 2015). Contents include:
  • Heike Krieger, Introduction
  • Reed Wood, Rational motives for civilian targeting in civil war
  • Zachariah Mampilly, Insurgent governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Ulrich Schneckener & Claudia Hofmann, The power of persuasion: the role of international non-governmental organizations in engaging armed groups
  • Olivier Bangerter, Comment – persuading armed groups to better respect international humanitarian law
  • Sandesh Sivakumaran, Implementing humanitarian norms through non-state armed groups
  • Jan Willms, Courts of armed groups a tool for inducing higher compliance with international humanitarian law?
  • Dieter Fleck, Comment – perspectives on courts established by armed opposition groups
  • Robert Cryer, The role of international criminal prosecutions in increasing compliance with international humanitarian law in contemporary African conflicts
  • Jean-Michel Kumbu, National courts: the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Balingene Kahombo, Comment – the Congolese legal system and the fight against impunity for the most serious international crimes
  • Dominik Steiger, Enforcing international humanitarian law through human rights bodies
  • Faustin Zacharie Ntoubandi, Comment – enforcement of international humanitarian law through the human rights organs of the African Union
  • Regina Klostermann, The UN Security Councils special compliance systems – the regime of children and armed conflict
  • Siobhán Wills, Ensuring peacekeepers' respect for international humanitarian law
  • Matthew Happold, Comment – obligations of States contributing to UN peacekeeping missions under Common Article 1 to the Geneva Conventions
  • Denis M. Tull, Comment – UN peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: the travails of civilian protection
  • Robin Geiß, Common Article 1 to the Geneva Conventions: scope and content of the obligation to ensure respect – narrow but deep or wide and shallow?
  • Philipp Aust, Complicity in violations of international humanitarian law Helmut
  • Kirsten Schmalenbach, International responsibility for humanitarian law violations by armed groups
  • Heike Krieger, Where states fail, non-state actors rise? Inducing compliance with international humanitarian law in areas of limited statehood