General Problems in the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict and Serbian Experience Cover Image

Општи проблеми у заштити цивила у оружаним сукобима и искуства Cрбије
General Problems in the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict and Serbian Experience

Author(s): Vladan Jončić
Subject(s): Politics, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Институт за политичке студије
Keywords: Serbian; civilians; fighters; armed conflicts; international humanitarian law; the Geneva Conventions; Protocols I and II;

Summary/Abstract: The experience of the Republic of Serbia regarding the application of the international law of armed conflict are high. The suffering of the Serbian media war in which the right to use the international legal status of the permitted changes abused civilians and combatants to military intervention in the form of aggression, and a good example for other small countries in their steps towards international integration. International humanitarian law is the protection of international conventions determine civilai and made a distinction between civilians and combatants. Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1977. This allowed the participants to the armed conflict can alternately change the status. Such a provision is in practice open to the possibility of abuse of the norms. This problem arises in the contemporary processes of international integration. Open to the suspicion that an internationally integration does not automatically mean improvement for small states. This begs the question whether they are so advanced that at first glance look like?

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 423-446
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Serbian
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