International Humanitarian Law and Inter

This course, crafted for non-lawyers, elucidates International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in War, intertwining law, history, politics, and technology. It decodes treaty texts and wartime incidents, stressing the impact of international rules on wartime behavior. It builds crucial analytical and argumentation skills for handling humanitarian crises and understanding war crime prosecution. It offers essential knowledge of international humanitarian law, focusing on protections for war victims, particularly vulnerable groups, humanitarian assistance and relief operations, challenges to humanitarian law by modern warfare and the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Building on interactive elements such as 'jigsaw activities' and role-playing simulations, the course cultivates an engaging, collaborative environment. Participants will formulate legally sound policy proposals tackling fundamental challenges to humanitarian law rules, the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, use of POW video on streaming platforms, blockading trade with commodities and foodstuffs the persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya. Through the application of case studies from historical and contemporary conflicts, such as those in Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Palestine, we will probe into the critical rules of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). including the abduction of children, attacks on train stations, attacks on medical units and white helmet staff in Syria, blockading Yemeni ports, the persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya, and starving civilians in Ethiopia. Key research areas, such as artificial intelligence, climate-induced conflicts, nuclear installation protection, urban warfare and war crimes punishments with hybrid courts, will be explored. These case studies will also enable the course participants us to explore the role of the International Criminal Court and other criminal courts in the prosecution of war crimes.