Chapter

Si vis pacem, para bellum : application of the European Convention on Human Rights in situations of armed conflicts

Rick Lawson

The right to life under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights

Oisterwijk : Wolf Legal Publisher, 2017

p. 213-230

English

Cases involving the application of the European Court on Human Rights to situations of armed conflict represent a sad branch of the Court's case-law, but they are becoming increasingly numerous. Present-day conditions dictate that the Court must prepare for war, or at least define its position in respect of cases that emanate from war-like situations, so as to lay the foundations for peace and respect for human rights. What is needed is a coherent view on the meaning of the Convention in situations of armed conflict.

• The right to life under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights : twenty years of legal developments since McCann v. the United Kingdom / Lawrence Early, Anna Austin, Clare Ovey, Olga Chernishova