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The Future Of The Grave Breaches Regime: Segregate, Assimilate Or Abandon, James G. Stewart
The Future Of The Grave Breaches Regime: Segregate, Assimilate Or Abandon, James G. Stewart
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Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions are one type of war crime. In this Article, I argue that the grave breaches regime has three possible futures. In the first, the regime remains segregated from other categories of war crimes in deference to the historical development of these crimes. This future, however, is one that will see a relatively dramatic decline in the use of grave breaches in practice, primarily because other offences cover the same acts more efficiently. In the second possible future, the grave breaches are entirely abandoned, but this eventuality seems both improbable and undesirable. Even though judicial …