This is a very informative interview on war law. I apologise to the speaker Chris Coverdale and the viewer for the poor sound quality. It could be improved in the future and as a filmmaker I learnt a valuable lesson.
This version licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Here are 3 documents authored by Chris Coverdale:
Below are references to what Chris is talking about, mostly in the order in which it is being saying it. (I hope to have an interactive player online soon that will display these hyperlinks on screen as there being said.)
- The Rome Statute -
- Nuremberg Trials
- “In the opinion of the Tribunal, those who wage aggressive war are doing that which is equally illegal, and of much greater moment than a breach of one of the rules of the Hague Convention.”
- “War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
- Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 on wikipedia - on yale website
- The UN (founded in 1945) and their charter and the key articles 2.3 and 2.4
- The UN General Assembly enact Nuremberg Principals
- Eden invades Suez -> Suez Crisis 1956
- Geneva Conventions
- The Chemical Weapons Act 1996
- International Landmines Convention -> Mine Ban Treaty (Sometimes referred to as the Ottawa Convention, it is officially titled: the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction.)
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Kaiser Wilhelm
- International Criminal Court
- The current International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor
- Security Council refers situation in Darfur to ICC Prosecutor
- Conscience - THE PEACE TAX CAMPAIGN
- The Peace Tax Seven
- SGI (Buddhist group)
- The Prospect of Peace By Daisaku Ikeda
- The genocide convention
- Senator William Proxmire
- Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987 (Proxmire Act)
- Henry Stimson
- “War between nations was renounced by the signatories of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty. This means that it has become throughout practically the entire world …. an illegal thing. Hereafter, when nations engage in armed conflict, either one or both of them must be termed violators of this general treaty law …. We denounce them as law breakers.” [Citation]
- ‘Blair’s five wars’ - Iraq 1998, Kosovo 1999, Sierra Leone 2000, Afghanistan 2001, and Iraq 2003
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