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Air and missile warfare under international humanitarian law

Yoram Dinstein

• Revue de droit militaire et de droit de la guerre = The military law and law of war review = Tijdschrift voor militair recht en oorlogsrecht = Zeitschrift für Wehrrecht und Kriegsvölkerrecht = Rivista di diritto militare e di diritto della guerra = Revista de derecho militar y de derecho de la guerra, 51/1, 2013, p. 81-91

English

Rendering homage to Erwin Dahinden's incessant support for efforts aiming to clarify operational law, Yoram Dinstein outlines the Air and Missile Warfare Programme of Legal Education (AMPLE) and Erwin Dahinden's decisive role in launching that project at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in 2010. He first describes the Air and Missile Warfare Manual (AMW Manual) produced by an international Group of Experts (under the auspices of the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University) and finalized by consensus in 2009, which the AMPLE team used as a basic tool. After presenting some general observations on air and missile warfare, the lecture turns to specific issues in air and missile warfare such as the use of drones, the protection of civilians, how neutrality is an important topic in air and missile warfare, and how the Group of Expert dealt with those topics during the drafting of the AMW Manual and its Commentary.

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• Revue de droit militaire et de droit de la guerre = The military law and law of war review = Tijdschrift voor militair recht en oorlogsrecht = Zeitschrift für Wehrrecht und Kriegsvölkerrecht = Rivista di diritto militare e di diritto della guerra
• Revue de droit militaire et de droit de la guerre = The military law and law of war review = Tijdschrift voor militair recht en oorlogsrecht = Zeitschrift für Wehrrecht und Kriegsvölkerrecht = Rivista di diritto militare e di diritto della guerra