’An Eternal Promise? – Three Sketches on the Universality of International Humanitarian Law

Hoffmann, Tamás (2015) ’An Eternal Promise? – Three Sketches on the Universality of International Humanitarian Law. In: Traum von Frieden – Utopie oder Realität? Nomos Verlag, pp. 237-260. ISBN 978-3-8487-2265-5

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The paper examines to what extent international humanitarian law deserves its lofty label. It focuses on three problematic aspects: historic exclusion based on racism, the separation between international and non-international armed conflicts and the extension of international humanitarian law to situations that should fall within the scope of human rights law.

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