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Training the armed forces to respect international humanitarian law: The perspective of the ICRC Delegate to the Armed and Security Forces of South Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

David Lloyd Roberts
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This paper will briefly examine the legal obligation placed on States to respect international humanitarian law and to train their armed forces in the subject. The practical problems this can create and how they might be overcome will also be addressed. The approach taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to training in general and the particular approach being used in South Asia will be discussed.

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Dissemination: spreading knowledge of humanitarian rules
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Special Issue 319: Dissemination: spreading knowledge of humanitarian rules , August 1997 , pp. 433 - 446
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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References

1 See Hampson, Françoise J., “Fighting by the rules”, IRRC, No. 269, 03–04 1989. p. 118 Google Scholar, or Aldrich, George H., “Compliance with the law: Problems and prospects”, in Fox, Hazel and Meyer, Michael A. (eds), Effecting compliance, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, 1993, pp. 3–13.Google Scholar

2 Draper, G. I. A. D., “The place of laws of war in military instruction”, lecture, RUSI Journal, Vol. III, London, 08 1966, p. 193 (note 10).Google Scholar

3 See also Sandoz, Yves, Implementing international humanitarian law, Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva, 1995, p. 5.Google Scholar

4 At the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst there is the well-known fable of the instructor who angrily exclaimed: “Jones, wake up Smith next to you”. Jones is reputed to have replied: “Sir, with the greatest respect, as you put him to sleep, perhaps it would be best if you woke him up”! History does not relate how officer cadet Jones's career progressed thereafter.