IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/joupea/v24y1987i3p297-306.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict: The Role of International Nongovernmental Organizations

Author

Listed:
  • David Weissbrodt

    (School of Law, University of Minnesota)

Abstract

The article identifies five principal reasons for international nongovernmental organizations to use humanitarian law in seeking to protect human rights during periods of armed conflict and also notes three difficulties in using humanitarian law. International nongovernmental organizations, aside from the International Committee of the Red Cross, possess an important role in assessing whether govern ments and armed opposition groups are respecting their human rights and humanitarian law obligations Americas Watch, Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, and other organ izations have for some time been using humanitarian law and human rights law in armed conflict situations. They need to become more consistent and careful in using humanitarian law; they can also learn from the experience of the Red Cross in how to be more effective in safeguarding human rights during periods of armed conflict.

Suggested Citation

  • David Weissbrodt, 1987. "Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict: The Role of International Nongovernmental Organizations," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 24(3), pages 297-306, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:joupea:v:24:y:1987:i:3:p:297-306
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/24/3/297.abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:joupea:v:24:y:1987:i:3:p:297-306. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.prio.no/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.