The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 3 : : From the Highlands of Papua New Guinea to the Island of Malta / / edited by Samuel White.

• Superior document: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: White, Samuel C. Duckett,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; International Humanitarian Law Series ; 67.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)

How international is international humanitarian law? The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 3: From Highland New Guinea to the Island of Malta , together with its companion volumes, The Laws of Yesterday's Wars: From Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War (Brill-Nijhoff, 2021) and The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 2: From Ancient India to East Africa (Brill-Nijhoff, 2022), attempts to answer that question. It offers a culture-by-culture account of various unique restrictions placed on warfare over time. Containing essays by a range of laws of war academics and practitioners, it approaches the laws of yesterday's wars from a wide cross-section of history and culture, seeking to find any common ground and to demonstrate a history of international law outside the usual confines of its ‘development' by Europeans and its later ‘contributions.' This volume includes studies on Mongol, Iban and Ottoman rules of war.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tool on African Traditions and the Preservation of Humanity during War -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Highland Papua New Guinea Laws of War -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Means &amp -- Methods -- 3 Prohibitions -- 3.1 Prohibition on Targeting Women -- 3.2 Prohibition on Targeting Children -- 3.3 Prohibition on Breaching the Neutrality of Clans -- 3.4 Prohibition on Reprisals -- 3.5 Prohibition on Attacking Property -- 3.6 Prohibition on Disrespecting Corpses -- 4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements and Disclaimer -- Chapter 2 Mongol Laws of War -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Means and Method -- 2.1 Society -- 2.2 Wealth Generation Tactics -- 2.3 Mongol Law -- 3 Prohibited Conduct -- 3.1 The Great Principle -- 3.2 Protection of Places of Worship -- 3.3 Law of Plunder -- 4 Defences -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Cossack Laws of War -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ukrainian Cossacks -- 2.1 Means and Methods of Zaporozhian Cossacks -- 2.2 Traditions of Zaporozhian Cossacks -- 2.3 Prohibitions and Punishments in the Zaporozhian Host -- 3 Registered Cossacks of Ukraine -- 3.1 Means and Methods of Registered Cossacks -- 3.2 Traditions of Registered Cossacks -- 3.3 Prohibitions and Punishments of Registered Cossacks -- 4 Don Cossacks -- 4.1 Means and Methods of Don Cossacks -- 4.2 Traditions of Don Cossacks -- 4.3 Prohibitions and Punishments of Don Cossacks -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Ottoman Laws of War -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Ottoman Political System -- 2 Means and Methods of War -- 2.1 Nature of Wars -- 2.1.1 Jihad -- 2.1.2 Gaza -- 2.1.3 Siege Warfare -- 3 Prohibitions &amp -- Restrictions -- 3.1 Prohibition of Looting -- 3.2 Prohibition of Slavery -- 3.3 Prohibition of Shedding the Blood of Another Muslim -- 4 Defences.

4.1 Defence for Looting -- 4.2 Defence for Campaigns against Fellow Muslims -- 4.2.1 Defence of Religious Orthodoxy -- 4.2.2 Internal Hostility against Dar al-Islam -- 5 Punishments -- 5.1.1.1 'Political Murder' -- 5.1.1.2 Exception for Not Holding a Trial -- 5.1.1.3 Punishment of Protected Non-muslims -- 5.1.2 Non-muslim Tribute Payer (Haracgüzar) -- 5.1.3 Tributary Princes -- 5.1.4 Non-muslim Rulers -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Ancient Malabar Laws of War -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Ancient Malabar-Social Structure and Rules -- 1.2 Origin, History and Evolution -- 1.2.1 Kalaripayattu: Origin -- 1.3 Legend of Agasthya and Parasurama -- 1.4 Other Historical Accounts -- 1.5 Bodhidharma and Kalaripayattu -- 1.5.1 Types of Kalaries -- 2 Means and Methods of Warfare -- 2.1 Historical Origin of Ankams and Mamankams -- 2.2 Ankam -- 2.3 Mamankam -- 2.4 Decline of Ankam and Mamankam -- 3 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Iban Laws of War -- 1 Western Borneo and Its Peoples in the Nineteenth Century -- 2 How Did Iban Society 'Regulate' Itself? -- 3 Iban Warfare: Maritime Raiding and Headhunting -- 4 What Conduct Did Adat Prohibit? -- 5 What Were the Consequences for Breaching Adat Related to Warfare? -- 6 Iban Warfare and Colonial Confrontation -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 South Sudanese Laws of War -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Customary Methods and Means of Warfare -- 3 Types of Prohibited Conduct -- 3.1 Prohibition of Attack Against Certain People -- 3.2 Prohibition of Looting and Destruction of Properties -- 3.3 Treatment of Prisoners of War -- 4 Defences for Breaches of Customary Regulations and Rules of Warfare -- 5 Consequences for Breaches of the Traditional Rules of Warfare -- 6 Conclusion and Recommendations -- Chapter 8 Maltese Laws of War -- 1 Temporal Scope -- 2 Limitations -- 3 Locating Malta -- 4 System of Governance - Relationship between Church and State.

5 The Order -- 6 Setting Base in Malta -- 7 Methods of Warfare -- 8 Architecture -- 9 Operationalising Weapons of War, during War -- 9.1 Great Siege -- 10 Governance of Malta -- 11 Defences to Breaches -- 12 Consequences that followed -- 13 Breaches of Laws (?) of War -- 14 Case Study - Corsaring in Malta -- 15 Systems of Governance -- 16 Adjudication and Division of Loot -- 17 Defences - Implied Immunity and Sovereign Orders -- 18 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- 1 Customs of War Supported -- Rule 1 - Distinction of Combatant/Non-combatant -- Rule 6: Direct Participation in Hostilities -- 2 Customs of War Not Supported -- Rule 49 -- Rule 52 -- Sexual Violence (Rule 93) -- 3 The Fundamental Custom -- General Index -- Back Cover.