Full Description
How international is international humanitarian law? The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 4: From Mesopotamia to West Africa, together with its companion volumes, attempts to answer that question. It offers a culture-by-culture account of various unique restrictions placed on warfare over time. Containing essays by a range of laws of war academics and practitioners, it approaches the laws of yesterday's wars from a wide cross-section of history and culture, seeking to find any common ground and to demonstrate a history of international law outside the usual confines of its 'development' by Europeans and its later 'contributions.' This volume includes studies on Egyptian, Jewish and Somali rules of war.
Contents
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Samuel Camden Duckett White
1 Ancient Egyptian Directives of Warfare
Anthony Spalinger
2 The Hittites
Rory Cox
3 Jewish Ethics of War: the Middle Ages
Norman Solomon
4 The Traditional Somali Laws of War
Ayan Abdirashid Ali
5 Changing the Narrative: a Reflection on the Impact of the Tool on African Traditions and the Preservation of Humanity during Warfare
Tamalin Bolus and Sarah Jean Mabeza
6 West African Laws of War - Adopting the Marxist Stages of Historical Development
Godfree Matthew
7 Conclusion
Index
