Crimes of War
What the Public Should Know (Crimes of War project)

http://www.crimesofwar.org/thebook/book.html
Publisher:  W.W. Norton, New York, USA
Year Published:  2007
Resource Type:  Book

An A-Z guide to the laws governing armed conflict and their application in practice. The chapters include discussions of the crimes prohibited by international humanitarian law, key terms relating to modern warfare, analysis of legal categories, and case studies showing the place of war crimes in recent conflicts. The text of the Arabic edition of Crimes of War is also available online. For anyone interested in using Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know in high school or college education, Human Rights Education Associates have produced a study guide to accompany the book.The book is now available in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Serbo-Croat and Spanish.

Subject Headings

• Biological & Chemical Warfare
• Biological & Chemical Weapons
• Biological Weapons
• Bombing
• Child Soldiers
• Civil Defence
• Concentration Camps
• Death Squads
• Ethnic Cleansing
• Forced Labour
• Geneva Conventions
• Genocide
• Guantanamo Naval Base
• Humanitarian Aid
• International Humanitarian Law
• International Law
• Terrorism
• War
• War Crimes
• War/Laws of
• War Prisoners
• Weapons of Mass Destruction