Legal qualification of armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia
By: by Ivana Djordjevic.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: University of Toronto. -- Faculty of Law -- Dissertations.; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Law and legislation.; Political violence -- Yugoslavia.; Humanitarian law -- Yugoslavia.
Description: Legal qualification of armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia is a true challenge. Each of them can hardly be classified as one particular type of armed conflict from an international humanitarian legal prospective. These conflicts were a unique and irreplaceable ground for the development of international humanitarian law.This article is an overall evaluation of the Yugoslav wars. It is a comprehensive analysis of each of the five conflicts separately but viewed in the light of totality of the Yugoslav wars. The issues dealt with were to determine if the conflicts were international or internal according to the  Geneva Conventions1 and whether they should be analyzed as one single conflict or as five separate ones.The way history is written is the way it will be remembered. This overall qualification of the totality of armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia is my contribution to the developing discipline of international humanitarian law.1 International Geneva Conventions for the Protection of the Victims of War, 12 August 1949, 6 UST 3516, 75 UNTS 287
Notes: Thesis (LL.M.)-University of Toronto, 2005.

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