Unravelling unlawful confinement in contemporary armed conflicts : : belligerents' detention practices in Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine / / Jelena Plamenac.

• Superior document: International Humanitarian Law
• VerfasserIn: Plamenac, Jelena,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: International Humanitarian Law
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 pages)

"It is generally accepted that detention in armed conflicts is an inevitable security measure that all warring parties use extensively in their daily operations. In such violent contexts, the legal protection afforded to detainees may be lifesaving. International humanitarian law (IHL) treaties recognise this reality in international armed conflicts by incorporating safeguards from unlawful and arbitrary detention in formulated legal grounds and procedural guarantees that the detaining powers are obliged to follow. The same guarantees are, however, not afforded to people affected by non-international armed conflicts under IHL. Instead, in the absence of a clearly defined international normative framework, security detention remains among the least regulated aspects of military behaviour in this type of armed conflict"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Introducing the legal quandary about internment in non-international armed conflict -- Exploring the legal approaches to internment in armed conflict -- Initiating the empirical quest : methodology -- The hidden dimension of states' detention in non-international armed conflict -- The plurality of armed non- state actors' detention in non-international armed conflict -- Objectivising internment -- Epilogue : the roadmap to legislating unlawful confinement in non-international armed conflict.