Resumé Prohibited means and ways of conducting armed conflicts - conventional weapons The theme of this thesis is "Prohibited means and ways of conducting armed conflicts - conventional weapons". Given that it is a very broad topic, this thesis focuses on restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons. Conventional weapons are all weapon systems which cannot be included among the weapons of massive destruction. The first part is focuses on the historical development of the law of war - it is one of the oldest international public law at all. The following section discusses its basic principles which are, in fact, the very base of all prohibitions applied. It is the principle of humanity, the principle of military necessity, the principle of prohibition of non- discrimination, the principle of proportionality and the principle of prohibition of causing excessive injuries and unnecessary suffering. The next section deals with the various conventions prohibiting or restricting use of certain conventional weapons, those which were adopted at the turn of the 20th century. Attention is paid to the St. Petersburg Declaration (1868), being the first international document prohibiting the use of one particular type of conventional weapons, and then to some documents adopted at the 1st and the 2nd Hague...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:312585 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Boušková, Klára |
| Contributors | Ondřej, Jan, Honusková, Věra |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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