http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/international-humanitarian-law Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:48:30 -0400 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:48:30 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1244/banning-evil-cluster-munitions-and-the-successful-formation-of-a-global-prohibition-regime By Denise Garcia - The rise and entry into force of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) that prohibits cluster bombs constitutes a global prohibition regime. I argue that this new prohibition regime and the arising new international norm set by the CCM, i.e. the prohibition of the use, development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention or transfer of cluster munitions developed due to a strong moral opprobrium, initially elicited by commanding moral force of International Humanitarian Law as a robust and compelling previously existing normative structure and then by the success of the ban on... Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1244/banning-evil-cluster-munitions-and-the-successful-formation-of-a-global-prohibition-regime http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1697/defining-armed-conflict-in-international-humanitarian-law By Gertrude C. Chelimo - International humanitarian law does make it clear what an international armed conflict is. According to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, common article 2 states that “all cases of declared war or of any armed conflict that may arise between two or more high contracting parties, even if the state of war is not recognized, the convention shall also apply to all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a high contracting party even if the said occupation meets with no armed resistance'' (Geneva Convention, 1949, common art.2). This means that the occurrence of international armed... Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:23 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1697/defining-armed-conflict-in-international-humanitarian-law