FOUNDATION: Unit IV. International Humanitarian Law 5 of 5

Now What Do You Think?
 





Now that you’ve completed this unit, how would you answer these questions?

  • Does making war more humane also make it more likely?
  • How do laws of war protect you?




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Humanitarian Law
and Iraq
Rules of Engagement Preventing Conflicts Eyes of a Survivor


Peace Treaty of Versailles
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Atlantic Charter
MidEast Web: The Iraq Crisis, An Overview
GlobalSecurity: Kurdistan — Kurdish Conflict
Geneva Law on POW Rights
Hague Law
     Web Resource #1
     Web Resource #2

Sample POW stories
     Web Resource #1
     Web Resource #2
Sample civilian victims in war stories
     Iraq Web Resource #1
     Iraq Web Resource #2
     Vietnam
     WWII "Comfort Women"
Manheim, Mary H., 1999. The Bone Lady: Life As a Forensic Anthropologist. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Customary International Humanitarian Law: Questions and Answers
Human Rights Watch: Genocide in Iraq, The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds
Human Rights Watch: International Humanitarian Law Issues in a Potential War in Iraq


  Unit V. International Human Rights
in the Domestic US Context