Violations of the rules applicable in non-international armed conflicts and their possible causes [electronic resource] : the case of Somalia / by Omar Abdulle Alasow.
Material type: TextSeries: International humanitarian law series ; v. 21.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010Description: xxxii, 362 p. : mapsISBN: 9789004189881 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Civil war -- Somalia | War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Somalia | Ethnic conflict -- Somalia | Humanitarian law -- Somalia | War (International law) | Somalia -- History -- 1991-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 967.7305/3 LOC classification: DT407.4 | .A43 2010Online resources: Click to View"This book started as my doctoral thesis at the Law Department of the University of Essex, U.K., 2005."--Acknowledgement.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The background and root causes of the conflicts in Somalia -- Characteristics of conflicts in Somalia -- Traditional Somali customary rules -- Rules of international law applicable to non-international armed conflicts -- Evidence of humanitarian law violations in Somalia -- Possible causes of violations of humanitarian rules -- Appendix one : The war in the Northwest regions (1988-1991) -- Appendix two : The war in the central and Southern regions (1989-2003).
"To the innocent victims of the armed conflict in Somalia."--P. [v].
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