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Non-traditional Illustrations of Compliance-Generation from Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

Pascal Bongard
Pascal Bongard*
Affiliation:
Head of the Policy and Legal Unit, Geneva Call.
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Widespread violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in today's armed conflicts continues to be a critical challenge for the international community. Many actors such as United Nations agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engage with parties to conflict to promote their compliance with IHL. In this intervention, I will focus on the positive role that non-traditional actors, such as non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and their constituencies, may play in this regard. My argument draws mainly from my experience with Geneva Call, a humanitarian NGO that has been engaging NSAGs toward IHL compliance over the past twenty years.

Type
There and Back Again: How to Ensure Compliance with IHL by Relying on Non-traditional Voices and Live to Tell the Tale
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 115 , 2021 , pp. 60 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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References

1 See also Pascal Bongard, Can Non-state Armed Groups Comply with IHL in Today's Armed Conflicts?, in Proceedings of the 19th edition of the Bruges Colloquium, Legal and Operational Challenges Raised by Contemporary Non-international Armed Conflict (ICRC/College of Europe, 2019).