Chapter

Comment : perspectives on courts established by armed opposition groups

Dieter Fleck

Inducing compliance with international humanitarian law : lessons from the African Great Lakes Region

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015

p. 181-187

English

In this chapter Dieter Fleck discusses the main proposition of Jan Willms' chapter that "if the leadership of an armed group is genuinely willing to enforce humanitarian law, courts of that armed group have a relatively high potential to be a successful tool for inducing compliance". He proposes to further evaluate whether and under what conditions this potential could be convincingly used beyond the rather few armed conflicts in which such trials happened to take place and he discusses other means for armed opposition groups to improve respect for international humanitarian law.

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• Courts of armed groups : a tool for inducing higher compliance with international humanitarian law ? / Jan Willms

• Inducing compliance with international humanitarian law : lessons from the African Great Lakes Region / ed. by Heike Krieger ; assistant ed. Jan Willms