About the Course: This course covers international humanitarian law as applied to soldiers, humanitarian workers, refugees, displaced persons, and others involved with armed conflict. Topics include background and definitions, protection of victims, rights of prisoners of war, rules of conduct in hostilities, means of implementation, human rights and IHL, the applicability of IHL to peacekeeping and peace enforcement, different applications to international and intra-national conflicts, terrorism, sovereignty, and the role of the International Red Cross in International Humanitarian Law. Written at a higher level than other Peace Operations Training Institute courses, this course deals with complex legal and military issues. Eight lessons.
About the Author: A Swiss national, Mr. Antoine Bouvier studied law and international relations at the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (now called the Graduate Institute, or IHEID). He joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Legal Division as a legal adviser in 1984. From 1993 to 1994 he served as head of the ICRC Mission in Malawi. After two years as deputy head of the ICRC Division for Policy and Cooperation within the Movement, he was appointed as a delegate to Academic Circles. In this capacity, he has conducted a large number of training sessions in all parts of the world. In 2009, Mr. Bouvier joined the ICRC Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law. He is the author of several articles on international humanitarian law and its dissemination and the co-author of How Does Law Protect in War?, a collection of cases, documents, and teaching materials on contemporary practice in international humanitarian law, from which several parts of this course have been adapted. Mr. Bouvier retired from the ICRC in 2016 and now works as a consultant.
Nombre de pages: 160 [Anglais]
Editeur: Institut de formation aux opérations de paix (POTI) [05-08-2020]