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Civilian Harm From Drone Strikes: Assessing Limitations & Responding To Harm, Human Rights Clinic
Civilian Harm From Drone Strikes: Assessing Limitations & Responding To Harm, Human Rights Clinic
Human Rights Institute
U.S. intelligence officials tout the drone platform as enabling the most precise and humane targeting program in the history of warfare. While drone technology is a significant advance, claims about minimal civilian harm from drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen elide many of the operational realities of using drones outside of full-scale military operations.
Historical Development And Legal Basis, Mary O'Connell
Historical Development And Legal Basis, Mary O'Connell
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Although the subject of this Handbook is the law applicable to the conduct of hostilities that applies once a party has entered into armed conflict (the jus in bello), that law cannot be properly understood without some examination of the separate body of rules which determines when resort to armed force is permissible (the jus ad bellum). The jus ad bellum has ancient origins but current law is founded on Article 2(4) and Chapter VII of the UN Charter.