ECH 1100 Final: ECH1100 FINAL EXAM REVIEW NOTES

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

What can and cannot be done in war. Jus ad bellum: the right to go to war (the un) Jus in bello: right to conduct in war (geneva conventions and the hague conventions. Protect people who can no longer fight (injured soldiers)protect those who do not fight. Identify the obligation whose violation can constitute war crimes. Not all violations of the convention are crimes. War crimes are not a concept in the geneva convention. Grave breaches use to only be international armed conflict. Does not establish when we can wage war, but how we can wage war. First: treatment of sick and wounded of the armed forced (linked to torture) Second: treatment if the sick and wounded at sea. Third: treatment of the pows (lined to torture) Forth: relative to the protection of civilians in times of war] Can only be committed during wartime (torture, willful killing, slave of a pow, hostage taking.