Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations and common list of references -- 1. Common Article 1: an introduction -- 2. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols -- 3. Ensuring respect for IHL in the international community: Navigating expectations for humanitarian law diplomacy by third States not party to an armed conflict -- 4. Parliamentary scrutiny committees' contribution to the obligation to respect and ensure respect for IHL -- 5. Ensuring respect for IHL by, and in relation to the conduct of, private actors -- 6. Ensuring respect for IHL by Kenya and Uganda in South Sudan: A case study -- 7. Ensuring respect and targeting -- 8. Weapons and the obligation to ensure respect for IHL -- 9. Artificial Intelligence and the obligation to respect and to ensure respect for IHL -- 10. The obligation to ensure respect for IHL in the peacekeeping context: Progress, lessons and opportunities -- 11. The obligation to ensure respect in relation to detention in armed conflict -- 12. Common Article 1 and counter-terrorism legislation: Challenges and opportunities in an increasingly divided world -- 13. Ensuring respect for IHL as it relates to humanitarian activities -- 14. The nature of the obligation to ensure respect under IHL for people displaced as a result of armed conflict -- 15. Challenges in the application of the obligation to ensure respect for IHL - foreign fighting as an example -- 16. The external dimension of Common Article 1 and the creation of international criminal tribunals -- 17. Common Article 1: emerging themes -- Index.

This book explores the nature and scope of the provision requiring States to 'ensure respect' for international humanitarian law (IHL) contained within Common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. It will be a valuable resource for practitioners, academics and researchers.

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