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Guantánamo – Joan Fontcuberta

El lunes 4 de marzo a las 17:00 horas tendremos en el seminario de derecho internacional de la Facultad de Derecho de la UAM (Sem DI-UAM) a Nicolas Lamp (London School of Economics), para discutir su artículo «Conceptions of War and Paradigms of Compliance: The ‘New War’ Challenge to International Humanitarian Law». El artículo ganó en 2012 el premio Francis Lieber, que otorga la American Society of International Law a un trabajo de excelencia sobre el derecho de los conflictos armados. El artículo se puede descargar gratuitamente desde el sitio web del Journal of Conflict & Security Law, en «2012 ASIL Lieber Prize»). La presentación será en inglés, pero se podrá formular preguntas en español, porque Nicolas entiende nuestra lengua. Aquí está el abstract:

The article argues that the so-called ‘new wars’ pose a fundamental challenge to international humanitarian law (IHL). Although not historically new, this type of war differs in crucial respects from the conception of war that underlies the traditional paradigm of compliance of IHL. At the heart of this paradigm lie certain assumptions: that IHL embodies a compromise between the interests of the warring parties and humanitarian concerns, and that the warring parties face a number of incentives to comply with the law. The article argues that these assumptions lose their plausibility under the circumstances of the ‘new wars’. As a result, the traditional enforcement mechanisms of IHL invariably fail in these conflicts. The second part of the article discusses the international legal response to the ‘new wars’. In particular, it considers international criminal prosecutions, the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross and measures by the United Nations Security Council. In the common elements of these measures the article identifies the contours of a new paradigm of compliance in IHL that shifts the emphasis from voluntary compliance to external enforcement.