General description
The course focuses on the general theory of international humanitarian law by addressing the following topics:
- Defining the concept of international humanitarian law, its origin, its development, its basic principles, its sources.
- Customary international humanitarian law.
- Determining the legal nature of the rules of international humanitarian law, and distinguishing it from other similar laws such as international human rights law and penal law.
- The scope of application of international humanitarian law and the scope of personal and spatial protection through the identification of protected persons, objects and protected property.
- Identifying the violations of international humanitarian law and adapting them legally and methods of criminalizing violations in national law.
- mechanisms for the application of international humanitarian law internationally and nationally.