Title: Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law
Description: The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law provides the precise meaning and content for over 200 terms such as terrorism, refugee, genocide, armed conflict, protection, peacekeeping, torture, and private military companies, words that the media has introduced into everyday conversation, yet whose legal and political meanings are often obscure. The Guide definitively explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.--
Subjects: Human rights, Treaties, War (international law), Humanitarian law, Dictionaries, Indexes, Ratification