The 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons and the applicability of rules governing means of combat in a non-international armed conflict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12850457 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denise Plattner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 279 |
| Pages | 551-564 |
| Publication date | 1990-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of the Red Cross (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1607-5889 • E-ISSN: 1816-3831 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020860400200090 |
| OpenAlex | W2945005403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Having reached the tenth anniversary of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects, adopted on 10 October 1980 (hereinafter referred to as the 1980 Convention), we can measure the progress brought about by the treaty within the limits which the law sets for the suffering caused by war. Paradoxically, however, we are witnessing an increasing number of situations which, in form at least, fall outside the scope of application of the 1980 Convention, namely non-international armed conflicts. Yet international humanitarian law on methods and means of combat includes general rules applicable to all armed conflict, and hence to non-international armed conflicts too. The provisions of the 1980 Convention are an application of those general rules to the means of combat which the treaty is intended to regulate. The question thus arises whether some of the rules of conduct laid down in the 1980 Convention are applicable to all armed conflicts, whether international or non-international. In the present study, we shall attempt to reply at least to some extent to that question
Armed conflict · Convention · Geneva Conventions · International humanitarian law · International law · Law and economics · Political science · Public international law · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Treaty · Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Torture, Ethics, and Law
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
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| Citation span | 1992 - 1992 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |