What Is War?

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Part I

Th e ILA Decision to Study the Meaning of “War” inInternational Law

Introduction:Defi ning Armed Confl ict in the Decade after 9/11

Proposal to Study the Meaning of War in International Law(May 2005)

Part II

Background Papers for the Study: International Law(2006)

International Law’s Changing Terms:“War” becomes “Armed Confl ict” *

Th e Meaning of Armed Confl ict and the Jus ad Bellum

Th e Concept of “Armed Confl ict” inInternational Armed Confl ict

Th e Meaning of Armed Confl ict:Non-International Armed Confl ict

Irregular Forces and Self-defense Under the UN Charter

United Nations Peacekeeping and the Meaningof Armed Confl ict

Part III

Background Papers for the Study:Beyond International Law (2007)

A. Political Science

Silence of the Laws?Conceptions of International Relationsand International Law inHobbes, Kant, and Locke

War, Crime, and Terrorism: Distinctions and Implications

B. Military and Military History

Meaning of War

What Is War?

History and War:The Grim Record of the Past

C. Journalism

The Meaning of War

The Semantics of 21st Century Warfare

D. Ethics

The Precariousness of Rules

The Meaning of War:An Ethical Analysis of Sanctions andHumanitarian Intervention

Uganda’s “War in the North”:How Clashing Religious Views Created an Armed Confl ict,How Reconciling Th em May End It

E. Peace Research

The Meaning of War

What’s in a War? Insights from a Confl ict Data Program

Part IV

Th e ILA Reports on the Meaning of Armed Confl ictin International Law (2008-10)

Initial Report of the ILA Use of Force Committee on theDefi nition of Armed Confl ict (2008)

Defi ning Armed Confl ict, Th e Work of the ILA Committeeon the Use of Force(2005-2008)

Excerpts from a Memo by the Chair to the Committee onSubmitting the Final Report (June 2010)

Th e ILA Use of Force Committee’s Final Report on theDefi nition of Armed Confl ict in International Law(August 2010)*

Report on the Adoption of the Committee’s Final Report onthe Defi nition of Armed Confl ict (September 2010)

Postscript

Appendix

Complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief(Violation of constitutional rights and international law –targeted killing)

Reply Memorandum in Support of Plaintiff ’s Motion for a PreliminaryInjunction and in Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Index