Article

The international humanitarian law classification of armed conflicts in Iraq since 2003

by David Turns

• Israel yearbook on human rights, Vol. 40, 2010, p. 39-66

English

This article considers the characterisation of the armed conflict in Iraq under IHL in each of four stages through which the conflict has gone. While the characterisation of the conflict as an international armed conflict (IAC) in its early stages (invasion through occupation) was clear enough, after the end of occupation it could not have been an IAC on a plain reading of the scope of application provisions of the Geneva Conventions, but nor could it have been a non-international armed conflict by the same terms or by any application of logic.

• Israel yearbook on human rights / publ. under the auspices of the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
• Israel yearbook on human rights [Vol. 40, 2010] / publ. under the auspices of the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University