Crimes of war 2.0: what the public should know

Preface to the second edition / Roy Gutman, David Reiff and Anthony Dvorkin

Preface to the first edition / Roy Gutman and David Rieff

Foreword / Richard Goldstone

International humanitarian law: an overview / Lawrence Weschler

Act of war / David Turns

Afghanistan / Patricia Gossman

Aggression / Steven R. Ratner

Apartheid / Steven R. Ratner

Arab-Israeli wars / Benny Morris

The second intifada and after / Orna Ben-Naftali and Aeyal Gross

Israel's views of the application of IHL to the west Bank and the Gaza strip / Kenneth Anderson

Armistice / Howard S. Levie

Belligerent status / Ewen Allison and Robert K. Goldman

Biological experiments / Sheldon H. Harris [see also medical experiments on POWs]

Biological weapons / Terence Taylor

Blockade as act of war / Christopher Greenwood

Bosnia / Florence Hartmann

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal / Stéphanie Maupas

Bullets [see weapons]

Cambodia / Sydney Schanberg

Carpet or area bombing / Horst Fischer

Cease-fire [see armistice]

Chechnya / Barry Renfrew

Chemical weapons / Peter Pringle [see also Poisonous weapons]

Child soldiers / Anna Cataldi and Jimmie Briggs

Children as killers / Corinne Dufka

Civil patrols / Ewen Allison and Robert K. Goldman

Civil war / A.P.V. Rogers [see also Belligerent status]

Civilian immunity / Heike Spieker

Civilians, illegal targeting of / Joel Greenberg

Cluster bombs [see Weapons]

Collateral damage / Horst Fischer

Collective punishment / Daoud Kuttab

Colombia / Douglas Farah

Combatant status / A.P.V. Rogers [see also Soldiers, rights of]

Command responsibility / Nomi Bar-Yaacov

Compelling military service / Patrick J. Sloyan

Concentration camps / Ed Vulliamy

Congo, Democratic Republic of / Gérard Prunier

Courts and tribunals / Charles Garraway

Crimes against humanity / M. Cherif Bassiouni

Crimes against peace / Steven R. Ratner

Cultural property and historical monuments / Peter Maass

Customary law / Theodor Meron

Customary law: the ICRC study / Burrus M. Carnahan

Dangerous forces; damns, dikes, and nuclear stations / Eric Rathfelder

Darfur / John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen

Dead and wounded / H. Wayne Elliott

Death squads / Jean-Marie Simon

Deportation / Roy Gutman

Detention and interrogation / Dana Priest

Disappearances / Corinne Dufka [see also death squads]

Distinction, principles of [see civilian immunity]

Due process / Gideon Levy

Due process rights

Environmental warfare / Mark Perry and Ed Miles

Kuwaiti oil wells / Robert Block

Ethnic cleansing / Roger Cohen

Evacuation of civilians from the battlefield / H. Wayne Elliott

Executions, extrajudicial / Don Oberdorfer

The camera as witness / Alex Levac

Extermination of civilian population [see crimes against humanity and genocide]

Food convoys [see humanitarian aid, blocking of]

Forced labor / John Ryle

Free fire zones / Lewis M. Simons

Gases [see chemical weapons and poisonous weapons]

Genocide / Diane F. Orentlicher

Gray areas in international humanitarian law / Ewen Allison and Robert K. Goldman

Guantanamo / Jess Bravin

Guerillas / Jon Lee Anderson

Gulf war / Frank Smyth

Health care systems / Eric Stover

Hors de combat / Kurt Schork

Hospitals / Charles Lane

Hostages / Sean Maguire

Humanitarian aid, blocking of / David f

Humanitarian intervention / David Rieff and Anthony Dworkin

Identification / H. Wayne Elliott [see also dead and wounded]

Immunity from attack / Emma Daly

Incitements to genocide / Colette Braeckman

Indiscriminate attack / Roy Gutman and Daound Kuttab

Types of indiscriminate attack

Internal displacement / Maud S. Beelman

International committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) / Michael Ignatieff

International humanitarian fact-finding commission / Frits Kalshoven

International vs. internal armed conflicts / Steven R. Ratner

Common article 3

Iran-Iraq War / Jonathan C. Randal

Iraq / Thom Shanker

Irregulars / Ewen Allison and Robert K. Goldman

Journalists, protection of / William A. Orme Jr.

Journalists in peril / Frank Smyth

Judicial proceedings [see due process]

Jurisdiction universal / Françoise Hampson

Jus ad bellum/Jus in bello / Karma Nabulsi

Just and unjust war / Karma Nabulsi

Labor camps [see concentration camps and forced labor]

Legitimate military targets / Gaby Rado

Levée en masse / Karma Nabulsi

Limited war / Peter Rowe

Mass Graves / Elizabeth Neuffer

Medical experiments on POWs / Sheldon H. Harris

Medical transports / Michael Ignatieff

Medical personnel / Eric Stover

Medico-legal investigations of war crimes / David Rohde

Mercenaries / Elizabeth Rubin

Military objectives / Hamilton DeSaussure

Mines / John Ryle

Murder of civilians [see willful killing]

Nuclear weapons / Burrus M. Carnahan

Occupation / George Packer

Paramilitaries / Christiane Amanpour

Parlementaires / Ewen Allison

Partisans [see civil patrols]

Perfidy and treachery / David Rohde

Persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds / William Shawcross

Pillage / Thomas Goltz

Poisonous weapons / Gwynne Roberts

Prisoners of war / H. Wayne Elliott

Prisoners of war, non repatriation of / Mark Huband

Private military firms / P.W. Singer

Property, civilian, destruction of / Amira Hass

Proportionality, principles of / Horst Fischer

Protected persons / Heike Spieker

Quarter, giving no / John Burns

Rape [see sexual violence]

Red Cross/Red Crescent emblem / Christian Jennings

Refoulement / David Rieff

Refugees, righrts of David Rieff

Reprisal / Frits Kalshoven

Reprisal Killings / Kenneth Anderson

Resistance fighters [see guerillas]

Rwanda / Mark Huband

Safety zones / Adam Roberts

Sanctions / tom Gjelten

Sexual violence / Thom Shanker

Sexual violence: enslavement / George Rodrigue

Sexual violence: systematic rape / Alexandra Stiglmayer

Shields / Robert Block

Sick and wounded / Eric Stover

Siege / Tom Gjelten

Slavery / E. Benjamin Skinner

Soldiers, rights of / Peter Rowe

Starvation / Marita Vihervuori

Terrorism / Anthony Dworking

Torture / Nicole Pope

Total war / Peter Rowe

Training in international humanitarian law / Michael H. Hoffman

Transfer of civilians / Thomas Goltz

Undefended towns / Adam Roberts

United Nations and the Geneva conventions / Roy Gutman

Unlawful combatants [see combatant status]

Unlawful confinement /Ed Vulliamy

Victims, rights of / Lindsey Hilsum

Wanton destruction / Jeremy Bowen

War crimes, categories of / Steven R. Ratner

Water supplies and works, destruction of / Emma Daly

Weapons / Burrus M. Carnahan

Willful killing / Peter Maass

Willfulness / A.P.V. Rogers

Afterword / Kenneth Anderson

Note on the law and legal terms / Alan Dorsey

Major international humanitarian law

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments for the second edition.