The question of armed conflicts in sub-saharan Africa and the International law of war
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1999Author
Onyoyo, Peter Onyango
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The phenomenon of war has created within the international law a
special attention especially within the period that followed-the outbreak
of the Second World War. Nations have signed Peace Treaties to
outlaw the application of war in the international disputes. Despite
several attempts to abolish war, the world has not managed to stop
nations from fighting. As the need for eradicating the application of war
to disputes increases, the need to have the Rule of law to control its
outbreak, is equally in progress.
The International Law of War begins from the need to restore
peace. The Peace Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the Congress of Vienna
that settled the Napoleonic wars in 1815, the Paris Conference of 1919
that settled the Great First World War; the Treaty of Versailles', and
finally the Conference of San Francisco in 1945 that settled the Great
Second World War, are good exemplaries of international effort to
maintain international peace and security world wide.
W~r and peace appear as the key words in the preamble of the
Charter of the United Nations as nations show their determination to
save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which twice has
brought untold sorrow to mankind". The same Members of the UN
have reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and
worth of the human person ... Likewise the study of the question of war
in the Sub-Saharan Africa begins from the same motivation".
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An extract publication of the doctoral dissertation with a specialization In Comparative Civil Law and International Public Law by PETER ONYANGOPublisher
INSTITUTE OF LAW PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY Faculty of Civil Law
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