Islamic Contributions to International Humanitarian Law
Recalibrating TWAIL Approaches for Existing Contributions and Legacies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3751665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Corri Zoli (0000-0001-7366-9686, College of Law, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Pages | 271-276 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AJIL Unbound (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2398-7723 • E-ISSN: 2398-7723 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s2398772300001586 |
| OpenAlex | W2624597857 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
This short essay focuses on the involvement of Muslim-majority state leadership in the pre-World War II development of international humanitarian law (IHL), including their appeals to Islamic norms. This historical snapshot reveals how national leaders joined debates during conferences leading up to the revised 1949 Geneva Conventions, the heart of modern IHL. Such accounts complicate our assumptions about the cultural and national composition of public international law as "Western," and shed light on global hierarchies involving modern Arab and Muslim states and their investment in such norms. The essay argues by example that, ultimately, in Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) more emphasis is needed on history, traditions of governance, and states' distinctive responses to macrostructural pressures-rather than on static notions of identity, resistant narratives, and presumed shared ideologies. TWAIL seeks alternatives to international law's presumed oppressive role in Western-non-Western power dynamics, and new ideas and opportunities for a "third-world" legal scholarship beyond current global underdevelopment dynamics
Global governance · Ideology · International law · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Public international law · Scholarship · Sharia · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · International Law and Human Rights · Islamic Studies and History · Law
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Using and abusing the concept of the Third World
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Islamic Law States and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes
The Three Worlds, or the Division of Social Scientific Labor, circa 1950-1975
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2016 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |