How can Kosovo become part of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, including the Genocide Convention?
How can Kosovo become part of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, including the Genocide Convention?

Summary/Abstract: Being a party to international agreements of particular importance is a key foreign policy priority of any state. Kosovo, which declared its independence in 2008, due to the painful past from its last war in 1998-1999, must take seriously its membership in important treaties of the international humanitarian law, especially the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols including the Genocide Convention. The main purpose of this paper is to explain the way Kosovo can become a contracting party to these Conventions and Protocols. For the realization of the research are used qualitative methods, based on bibliography and the credible Internet sources related to international treaties, the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the Genocide Convention, and to Kosovo. Research findings show that Kosovo could become a party to these Conventions and Protocols through succession, although it is not a member state of the UN. The conclusions aim to increase knowledge about the mentioned Conventions and the reasons why Kosovo should be a party to them.

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