Identifying the Enemy: Civilian Participation in Armed Conflict (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199678495)

Vendor: Emily Crawford
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Format: Hardcover
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Identifying the Enemy: Civilian Participation in Armed Conflict

$150.00

Identifying the Enemy: Civilian Participation in Armed Conflict

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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Over the past twenty-five years, significant changes in the conduct of wars have increasingly placed civilians in traditional military roles - employing civilians to execute drone strikes, the 'targeted killing' of suspected terrorists, the use of private security contractors in combat zones, and the spread of cyber attacks. Under the laws of armed conflict, civilians cannot be targeted unless they take direct part in hostilities. Once civilians take action, they become targets. This book analyses the complex question of how to identify just who those civilians are.

Identifying the Enemy examines the history of civilian participation in armed conflict and how the law has responded to such action. It asks the crucial question: what is 'direct participation in hostilities'? The book slices through the attempts to untie this Gordian knot, and shows that the changing nature of warfare has called into question the very foundation of the civilian/military dichotomy that is at the heart of the law of armed conflict.

Author: Emily Crawford
ISBN-10: 0199678499
ISBN-13: 9780199678495
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/23/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d
By Emily Crawford
By Emily Crawford
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Emily Crawford, Lecturer and Co-Director, Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney

Emily Crawford is a Lecturer at the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney, and the Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. She is a member of the ILA Committee on Non-State Actors, a Co-Rapporteur for the ILA Study Group on Cyber-Terrorism, and a member of the Australian Red Cross IHL Committee for New South Wales.

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