IRRC No. 102

The need to restore the Laws and Customs relating to armed Conflicts

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Abstract
Socrates recommended that one should begin a dissertation by denning one's terms.For some time now, the name, “humanitarian law”, has been used to describe the large body of public international law derived from humanitarian sentiments and centred upon the protection of the individual.The term has both a broad and a narrow sense. In the broad sense, international humanitarian law consists of those rules of international conventional and customary law which ensure respect for the individual and promote his development to the fullest possible extent compatible with law and order and, in time of war, with military necessities.

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