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Introduction: Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law

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posted on 2023-05-24, 06:15 authored by Timothy McCormackTimothy McCormack

When my dear friend and colleague Suzannah Linton first approached me with her suggestion to mark the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, I was immediately enthusiastic. A collection of essays reflecting Asia- Pacific perspectives on international humanitarian law (IHL) with contributors from around the region is both novel and timely. Suzannah, Sandesh and I are all sensitive to the dominance of Western European and North American voices in the academic literature on IHL (at least the academic literature published in English) despite the reality that this particular geographic region has endured many catalytic calamities – that unique combination of tragedy that provides impetus to multilateral norm creation. I will return to that topic with specific examples, but Suzannah’s concept offered an opportunity to begin to redress the relative paucity of contributions from this region.

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Publication title

Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law

Editors

S Linton, T McCormack, S Sivakumaran

Pagination

1-14

ISBN

9781108667203

Department/School

Office of the Faculty of Law

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Publication status

  • Published

Place of publication

Cambridge, UK

Extent

41

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Copyright 2020 Cambridge University Press

Socio-economic Objectives

230499 Justice and the law not elsewhere classified

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