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Military Professionalism and Humanitarian Law - The Struggle to Reduce the Hazards of War (Hardcover)
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Military Professionalism and Humanitarian Law - The Struggle to Reduce the Hazards of War (Hardcover)
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This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive
rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and
actual state practice. It discusses reducing the human suffering
caused by this reality. The current law does not seem to be optimal
in balancing the different interests of states' militaries and the
humanitarian agenda. In response to this challenge, this book
offers a new paradigm based on reality that may elevate the
humanitarian threshold by replacing the currently problematic
imperatives imposed upon militaries with professionally-based,
therefore attainable, requirements. The aims of the suggested
paradigm are to create an environment in which full abidance by the
law becomes a realistic norm, thus facilitating a second, more
important aim of reducing human suffering. Militaries function in a
professional manner; they develop and respect their doctrine,
operational principles, fighting techniques and values. Their
performances are not random or incidental. The suggested paradigm
calls for leveraging the constraining elements that are latent in
military professionalism. Talking professional language and
adopting the professional way of thinking that underlies
militaries' conduct makes it possible to identify and focus upon
the core interests of a military in any given lawful war - those
that ought to be taken into consideration - alongside those that
can be sacrificed for the sake of the humanitarian concerns, while
still allowing the military mission to be achieved. Indeed,
leveraging professional standards and norms would establish a
reasonable modus vivendi for a military, while allowing substantial
new space for the humanitarian mission of the law.
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