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Daily Archives: June 14, 2024
A Short History of International Humanitarian Law
What makes for an expert in human rights? Someone who other human rights experts accept as an expert. To get in the game, you first have to speak the code and nod to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and … Continue reading
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Discourse, Reality, and the Culture of Combat
Historian John A. Lynn wrote in 2005: Historians need to differentiate between the reality of war and die way in which a culture conceives of war: between the concrete and the conceptual. At die conceptual pole, the term ‘discourse’ signifies … Continue reading
The Genesis of the Civilian
Professor Amanda Alexander wrote in 2007: This paper argues that the concept of the civilian is a specific way of viewing non-combatants that can be traced to the First World War. Before the war, non-combatants were seen by the law … Continue reading
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