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This book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, with relevant cases, examples, and discussion questions. It offers students and teachers a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law, and the developing trends in theory and practice of the law.

Now in its third edition, this textbook provides an accessible and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, with relevant cases, examples, and discussion questions. It offers students and teachers a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law, and the developing trends in theory and practice of the law.

Intro -- Editorial Board -- Editorial -- Contents -- Part I Cultures of IHL -- 1 Des-Encanto: Latin America and International Humanitarian Law -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Situating Latin America in the History of the Laws of War -- 1.3 Criollo Law of War -- 1.4 Litigating the Laws of War -- 1.5 The Disenchantment of Latin America -- 1.6 Conclusions -- References -- 2 Rites of Affirmation: The Past, Present, and Future of International Humanitarian Law -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Progress and Promise -- 2.3 An Immanent Cult -- 2.4 The Limits of History -- 2.5 The Uses of History -- 2.5.1 Exogenous Uses -- 2.5.2 Endogenous Uses -- 2.6 Coming to Terms with Anxiety: From History to Social Memory -- 2.6.1 Formalist Anxieties -- 2.6.2 Anxieties of Conscience/Consciousness -- 2.6.3 Vows Renewed, Promises Deferred -- 2.6.4 Histories of Deferment and Exculpation -- 2.6.5 Achievement, Anxiety and Misconception -- 2.7 Conclusion: Re-historicising the Laws of War -- References -- 3 Prisoners of War, Taking of Hostages and the Colombian Armed Conflict: Challenges Arising Out of Conflictive Understandings of IHL by Different Actors in Particular Contexts -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Detentions by Non-state Armed Groups in NIAC in the Light of IHL: Three Dimensions of the Same Phenomenon -- 3.2.1 The Impossibility to Automatically Transfer IHL Regulations for POW to NIACs -- 3.2.2 The IHL Regulation Over the Moment of Retention by Non-state Armed Groups -- 3.2.3 IHL Regulation on Conditions of Captivity by Non-state Armed Groups -- 3.2.4 IHL Regulation on Liberation of Persons Deprived of Their Physical Liberty by Non-state Armed Groups -- 3.2.5 Conclusion to Sect. 3.2 -- 3.3 FARC-EP's Detention of Members of Colombian Military Forces: The Impact of the Participation of the Former Members of the FARC-EP Secretariat in the Delimitation of IHL.