Essential rules of behaviour for police in armed conflict, disturbance and tension : legal framework, international cases and instruments / by Ralph Crawshaw, Leif Holmstrom.

Includes bibliographical references.

Essential Rules of Behaviour for Police in Armed Conflict, Disturbance and Tension; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I The Legal Framework; 1. Introduction to the Laws of War; A. INTRODUCTION; B. LAWS OF WAR: SOURCES AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; C. FIELD OF APPLICATION; D. COMBATANTS AND NON-COMBATANTS; E. THE LAWS OF WAR AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; F. THE LAWFUL LIMITS ON HUMAN RIGHTS; G. MEANS TO SECURE COMPLIANCE; H. THE DUTY TO INVESTIGATE; 2. Conduct of Hostilities and Public Order Operations; A. INTRODUCTION; B. INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT.

C. NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTD. DISTURBANCE AND TENSION; 3. Protection of Detainees; A. INTRODUCTION; B. INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT; C. NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT; D. DISTURBANCE AND TENSION; 4. Protection of the Vulnerable; A. INTRODUCTION; B. WOUNDED AND SICK; C. CIVILIANS; D. REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS; E. WOMEN; F. CHILDREN; G. MEMBERS OF RACIAL OR ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS; 5. Responses to Terrorism; A. INTRODUCTION; B. TERRORISM AND THE LAWS OF WAR; C. CHARACTERISTICS AND DEFINITIONS OF TERRORISM; D. INTERNATIONAL MEASURES TO COUNTER TERRORISM.

E. VICTIMS OF TERRORISMF. STATES' RESPONSES TO TERRORISM; PART II Summaries of International Cases; 1. Introduction to the Laws of War; A. INTRODUCTION; B. CASE SUMMARIES; (a) Kepa Urra Guridi v. Spain (Committee against Torture); 2. Conduct of Hostilities and Public Order Operations; A. INTRODUCTION; B. CASE SUMMARIES; (a) Prosecutor v. Ljube Boškoski and Johan Tarčulovski (International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia); (b) Sudan Human Rights Organisation et al. v. the Sudan and Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions v. the Sudan(African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights).

(C) Montero Aranguren et al. case (Venezuela), the "Detention Centre of Catia" case (Inter-American Court of Human Rights)(d) Isayeva v. Russia (European Court of Human Rights); (e) Giuliani and Gaggio v. Italy (European Court of Human Rights); 3. Protection of Detainees; A. INTRODUCTION; B. CASE SUMMARIES; (a) Yasoda Sharma v. Nepal (Human Rights Committee); (b) Opinion No. 44/2005 (Iraq and United States of America) (Working Group on Arbitrary Detention); (c) Opinion No. 26/2007 (Israel) (Working Group on Arbitrary Detention).

(D) Luluyev and Others v. Russia (European Court of Human Rights)4. Protection of the Vulnerable; A. INTRODUCTION; B. CASE SUMMARIES; (a) Marcellana and Gumanoy v. Philippines (Human Rights Committee); (b) De La Cruz Flores case (Peru) (Inter-American Court of Human Rights); 5. Responses to Terrorism; A. INTRODUCTION; B. CASE SUMMARIES; (a) Ahmed Hussein Mustafa Kamil Agiza v. Sweden (Committee against Torture); (b) Opinion No. 3/2004 (Israel) (Working Group on Arbitrary Detention); (c) Opinion No. 47/2005 (Yemen) (Working Group on Arbitrary Detention).

The primary focus of this book is the laws of war, also referred to as the international law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law. There are two aspects to the laws of war, jus ad bellum, the rules governing resort to armed conflict, and jus in bello, the rules governing the conduct of armed conflict. The purpose of the book is to inform police officials about the latter. It is also written for other State officials, including the military, who may carry out police operations, educators and trainers of police and those who monitor or investigate police or otherwise seek to hold them accountable. In addition to considering rules of behaviour in actual armed conflict, the book focuses on police conduct in those forms of conflict that fall below the armed conflict threshold, that is to say situations of internal disturbance and tension. Whilst the laws of war are not legally applicable in such situations, it is argued here that some of its principles and provisions should form an important element in the strategy and tactics of policing civil disturbances, especially when they are serious in terms of scale or intensity of violence.

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