Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 20, 2017

The main theme of this volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Lawis the development and interpretation of international humanitarian law (IHL). It iselaborated upon in several chapters that examine the role of non-state armed groupsin the de

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Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law Volume 20

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Terry D. Gill Tim McCormack Robin Geiß Heike Krieger Christophe Paulussen •



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Editors Terry D. Gill Criminal Law Section, Section Military Law University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands and Netherlands Defence Academy Breda The Netherlands Tim McCormack Melbourne Law School Carlton, VIC Australia

Robin Geiß School of Law University of Glasgow Glasgow UK Heike Krieger Department of Law/Public Law Free University of Berlin Berlin Germany Christophe Paulussen Research Department T.M.C. Asser Instituut The Hague The Netherlands

The views expressed in this Yearbook are not necessarily those of the members of the Editorial Board, the Board of Advisors to the Editorial Board, the Board of Recommendation and/or those institutions they represent, including the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and T.M.C. Asser Press. ISSN 1389-1359 ISSN 1574-096X (electronic) Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law ISBN 978-94-6265-263-7 ISBN 978-94-6265-264-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-264-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018955914 Published by T.M.C. ASSER PRESS, The Hague, The Netherlands www.asserpress.nl Produced and distributed for T.M.C. ASSER PRESS by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg © T.M.C. ASSER PRESS and the authors 2019 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover picture: Aleppo. This street is one of several in the city that remains riddled with unexploded mines that threaten the lives of pedestrians. Photo: Ali Yousef. Reproduced with permission: ICRC. This T.M.C. ASSER PRESS imprint is published by the registered company Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany

Editorial Board General Editors Prof. Terry D. Gill (Editor-in-Chief), University of Amsterdam/Netherlands Defence Academy Prof. Tim McCormack (Editor, Correspondents’ Reports), University of Melbourne Prof. Robin Geiß (Editor), University of Glasgow Prof. Heike Krieger (Editor), Free University of Berlin

Managing Editor Dr. Christophe Paulussen, T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague

Editorial Assistant Beier Lin, MA, T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague

Board of Advisors to the Editorial Board Dr. Louise Arimatsu, The Royal In