Chapter XVII of the Manual and the corresponding Chapter 17 of the Book deal with the law as it applies to non-international armed conflicts. Starting with the definition and constituent elements of such conflicts, the Chapter goes on to address how the Manual deals with the law that applies to them, including its discussion of the principle of distinction, of the rules as to the conduct of attacks during non-international armed conflicts, of humanitarian organisations and activities, of displacement of the civilian population and of the prohibition of the use of starvation as a method of warfare. Subsequent sections of the Chapter consider the Manual’s treatment of the protection of children, of cultural property, of the use of captured or surrendered enemy personnel, of weapons, and of the protection of the wounded, sick, shipwrecked and dead, medical and religious personnel and medical transports. The Chapter concludes with a assessment of the Manual’s discussion of the law relating to the display of the distinctive emblem, to detention, to non-intervention and to neutral duties.