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Promoting international humanitarian law in higher education and universities in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Stéphane Hankins
Stéphane Hankins*
Affiliation:
Dissemination Delegate ICRC Moscow
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Any attempt to spread knowledge of international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict) and its corresponding obligations among the military and political authorities of a country must be matched by an effort to introduce the subject into academic programmes, where the subject will be taught and studied in greater depth.

Today, international humanitarian law is a minor component of the academic curriculum at universities in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), constituting only a small part of the public international law course offered at leading law faculties. Until very recently, although the relevant treaties and instruments of international humanitarian law existed in the Russian language, they were not readily available in libraries and were very seldom the subject of academic study and research.

Type
Dissemination: spreading knowledge of humanitarian rules
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Special Issue 319: Dissemination: spreading knowledge of humanitarian rules , August 1997 , pp. 447 - 450
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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