JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, FL (formerly at Ann Arbor, MI) examines the relevance of the four Geneva Conventions signed in August 1949, 60 years ago this month, in the context of untraditional conflicts that he describes as being "between war and peace"...
The nature and proliferation of national and international armed conflicts from the 20th Century through the present day have challenged traditional notions of what is or is not a "war," and which legal principles apply to such conflicts. Sixty years ago, on August 12, 1949, sixty-four countries that had lived through the tragedy of war came together to sign the Geneva Conventions, the cornerstone compacts of international humanitarian law (IHL) that regulate the conduct of armed conflict and seek to limit its effects.
These four Conventions included:
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