%0 Book %A Thùˆrer, Daniel %I Hague Academy of International Law %D 2011 %C The Hague %G English %B Pocketbooks of the Hague Academy of International Law %@ 9789004179103 %@ 9004179100 %T International humanitarian law : theory, practice, context %X Examines the law of armed conflict or law of war, dealing with war and the means by which international law attempts to contain and "humanize" organized violence. Going beyond the battlefield, explores treaties and other sources of international law as well as the influence of culture in shaping the normes on war, institutions that develop those norms and work for their universal acceptance, and the legal procedures in which the law of war are embedded