Wars Humanising Wars

... International Committee of Red Cross. Without getting into historical evolution of IHL before World War II, it is worth noticing that international humanitarian law, or laws of war, consisted of two main branches [6] : ‘Law of Geneva’, represented by the Geneva Conventions of 1864, 1905, 1929. The main focus of those Conventions was to protect people hors de combat , no longer ... ... law tries to be as realistic as possible. However, by introducing some basic rules of warfare, which were present even during WWII, it delegitimised some wars – the most cruel, disproportionate, unlimited in means and methods – while, in fact, legitimising ...