Outrages committed during violent conflict and as part of the
'war on terror' are not only an affront to human dignity -- they
also violate the Geneva Conventions.
This book examines recent high-profile cases of repeated and
open abuse of the Conventions. The contributors explore why these
and related violations of international humanitarian law cannot be
viewed as anomalies, but must be regarded as part of a pattern
which is set to undermine the Geneva Conventions as a whole.
The contributors argue that an international system in which
there is diminishing legal restraint on the use of force means that
the world will become less secure and more volatile, even for those
in the most powerful countries. Individuals everywhere face the
prospect of a horrifying vulnerability.
This is the first scholarly yet accessible work to consider the
meanings of outrages such as the normalisation of torture, as well
as the worrying new normative, technical and tactical developments
that challenge the purpose and standing of the Geneva
Conventions.
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