Teacher	Bart Klem
Room	303
Time	13:15 - 15:00
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Preparation	Please read: Melzer, Nils (2020) International Humanitarian Law: A Comprehensive Introduction. Chapter 1 (pp. 15-47). Geneva: ICRC. Forsythe, David (2005) The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 7 (pp. 242 - 278). Korac, Maja (2016) “Is there a right time for gender-just peace? Feminist anti-war organising revisited”, Gender and Education, 28(3): 431-444.

We will start this module by familiarizing ourselves with International Humanitarian Law and the mandate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This directs our gaze to places that are riven by war. The vast majority of these wars are fought, at least to some degree, by insurgencies. As unrecognised and/or proscribed entities, these non-state armed actors have an ambiguous position under international law and this conjures up many conceptual, ethical and practical questions.

Additional reading/resources (not mandatory)

Fortin, Katharine (2016) ‘The Application of Human Rights Law to Everyday Civilian Life Under Rebel Control,’ Netherlands International Law Review, 63(2): 161–181.

Rodenhäuser, Tilman (2018) Organizing Rebellion: Non-State Armed Groups under International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, and International Criminal Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sullivan, Gavin (2020) The law of the list : UN counterterrorism sanctions and the politics of global security law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.