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Military Professionalism and Humanitarian Law : The Struggle to Reduce the Hazards of War, PDF eBook

Military Professionalism and Humanitarian Law : The Struggle to Reduce the Hazards of War PDF

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This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice.

It discusses reducing the human suffering caused by this reality.

The current law does not seem to be optimal in balancing the different interests of states' militaries and the humanitarian agenda.

In response to this challenge, this book offers a new paradigm based on reality that may elevate the humanitarian threshold by replacing the currently problematic imperatives imposed upon militaries with professionally-based, therefore attainable, requirements.

The aims of the suggested paradigm are to create an environment in which full abidance by the law becomes a realistic norm, thus facilitating a second, more important aim of reducing human suffering. Militaries function in a professional manner; they develop and respect their doctrine, operational principles, fighting techniques and values.

Their performances are not random or incidental. The suggested paradigm calls for leveraging the constraining elements that are latent in military professionalism.

Talking professional language and adopting the professional way of thinking that underlies militaries' conduct makes it possible to identify and focus upon the core interests of a military in any given lawful war - those that ought to be taken into consideration - alongside those that can be sacrificed for the sake of the humanitarian concerns, while still allowing the military mission to be achieved.

Indeed, leveraging professional standards and norms would establish a reasonable modus vivendi for a military, while allowing substantial new space for the humanitarian mission of the law.

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