Oxford LibGuides: War, weapons & victims : legal responses: War

Ius ad bellum: prevention

Article 2(4) UN Charter

"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."

Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict
From ICJ's website.
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons
From ICJ's website.

Theory, ethics & definitions

What Is War? : an investigation in the wake of 9/11 by Mary Ellen O'Connell
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 9004172343
Publication Date: 2012
Print copy is at Internat 580 O18.5a
The Ethics of Preventive War by Deen K. Chatterjee (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 0521765684
Publication Date: 2013
Print copy is at Internat 750 C495.6a

Laws of war and armed conflict

Shelf marks on Level 3

War & armed conflict	Internat 750
Termination of war	Internat 760

War crimes, trials etc	Internat 580

How is the Term "Armed Conflict" Defined in International Humanitarian Law?
Free resource. Opinion paper of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), March 2008
available as pdf.
Acts of non-state armed groups and law governing armed conflict
Free resource. By Jonathan Somer. (2006) ASIL Insight Volume 10, Issue 21
COW : Correlates of War Project
Free resource. Academic IR project for "the systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge about war." May be useful for background information.
IHFFC: International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
Official website. empowered to investigate allegations of both grave breaches and ‘other serious violation[s]’ of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I.
Debate Map: Armed conflict and use of force in Syria [ARCHIVE]

Ius in bello: conduct

The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict by Andrew Clapham; Paola Gaeta
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9780199559695
Publication Date: 2014
Print copy is at Internat 750 C588.3a if preferred.
The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict by Yoram Dinstein
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9781107118409
Publication Date: 3rd edn 2016
Print copies at Internat 750 D587b3 if preferred
Law Applicable to Armed Conflict by Ziv Bohrer; Janina Dill; Helen Duffy
Call Number: Internat 750 B677.5a
ISBN: 9781108722988
Publication Date: 2020
Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict by William Boothby
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780198728504
Publication Date: 2nd edn, 2016
Print copy at Internat 750 B725a2 if preferred.
Wars of Law unintended consequences in the regulation of armed conflict by Tanisha M. Fazal
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9781501719813
Publication Date: 2018

Law of Armed Confict
Part of the UN's Audiovisual Library Of International Law
Laws of War
Part of Avalon Project. Includes links to documents & treaties relating to Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, Geneva Conventions 1864 - 1975 as well ase Declaration of Paris 1856, General Orders No. 100 - Instructions For the Government of US Armies in the Field 1863,Declaration of St. Petersburg 1868; - Convention for the Exemption of Hospital Ships, in Time of War, From the Payment of All Duties and Taxes Imposed for the Benefit of the State 1904; Kellogg-Briand Pact and Associated Documents 1928.
Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol 1 (1977)
From ICRC website. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977. Citation: 1125 UNTS 3.
Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict
From ICJ's website.
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons
From ICJ's website.
PRIO:Data on Armed Conflict 1989-2008
Free resource. CSCW and Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, have collaborated in the production of a dataset of armed conflicts, both internal and external, in the period 1946 to the present. The Armed Conflict Dataset is primarily intended for academic use in statistical and macro-level research. It complements the annual compendium of ongoing armed conflicts published in the Journal of Peace Research, as well as the UCDP online database. CSCW houses the academic conflict dataset and continues to work closely with UCDP to provide more and better data.
The International Law of Drones
ASIL Insight By Mary Ellen O’Connell
The Law That Applies to Autonomous Weapon Systems
ASIL Insight by Jeffrey S. Thurnher

War, weapons & victims : legal responses: War

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Ius ad bellum: prevention

Theory, ethics & definitions

Laws of war and armed conflict

Ius in bello: conduct