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Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict

Bringing together the law of armed conflict governing the use of weapons into a single volume, the fully updated Second Edition of Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict interprets these rules and discusses the factors influencing future developments in weapons law. After relating the historical evolution of weapons law, the book discusses the important customary principles that are the foundation of the subject, and provides a condensed account of the law that exists on the use of weapons. The treaties and customary rules applying to particular categories of weapon are thereafter listed and explained article by article and rule by rule in a series of chapters. Having stated the law as it is, the book then explores the way in which this dynamic field of international law develops in the light of various influences. The legal review of weapons is discussed, both from the perspective of how such reviews should be undertaken and how such a system should be established. Having stated the law as it is, the book then investigates the way in which this dynamic field of international law develops in the light of various influences. In the final chapter, the prospects for future rule change are considered. This Second Edition includes a discussion of new treaty law on expanding bullets, the arms trade, and norms in relation to biological and chemical weapons. It also analyses the International Manuals on air and missile warfare law and on cyber warfare law, the challenges posed by 'lethal autonomous weapon systems', and developments in the field of information and telecommunications otherwise known as cyber activities.

Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict

Bringing together the law of armed conflict governing the use of weapons into a single volume, the fully updated Second Edition of Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict interprets these rules and discusses the factors influencing future developments in weapons law. After relating the historical evolution of weapons law, the book discusses the important customary principles that are the foundation of the subject, and provides a condensed account of the law that exists on the use of weapons. The treaties and customary rules applying to particular categories of weapon are thereafter listed and explained article by article and rule by rule in a series of chapters. Having stated the law as it is, the book then explores the way in which this dynamic field of international law develops in the light of various influences. The legal review of weapons is discussed, both from the perspective of how such reviews should be undertaken and how such a system should be established. Having stated the law as it is, the book then investigates the way in which this dynamic field of international law develops in the light of various influences. In the final chapter, the prospects for future rule change are considered. This Second Edition includes a discussion of new treaty law on expanding bullets, the arms trade, and norms in relation to biological and chemical weapons. It also analyses the International Manuals on air and missile warfare law and on cyber warfare law, the challenges posed by 'lethal autonomous weapon systems', and developments in the field of information and telecommunications otherwise known as cyber activities.

#WeAreArrested (Oberon Modern Plays)

When a journalist is sent a flash-drive containing critical evidence of illegal government activity, he is duty-bound to publish the story. But with the nation destabilised and divided, a sinister power is eroding the rule of law. What price will he pay for speaking out? #WeAreArrested is a gripping play about fighting for truth in a network of lies. Adapted from the book by Can Dündar, who was arrested for publishing footage of Turkish State Intelligence sending weapons into Syria, this deeply personal and universal story finds urgent new life as authoritarian politics spread across the globe.

Weaving the Camp: Refugees' Practices of Spatialization in a Refugee Camp in Uganda

This book offers a socio-spatial analysis of a refugee camp in southwestern Uganda. Based on qualitative research with a multi-method approach the author shows how refugees are central actors in the operation and becoming of a camp. Not only do they crucially contribute to its social, micro-economic, and material realization but they also incrementally rearrange the camp space by acts of constant adaptation in order to make it work for its inhabitants. By means of social interaction, infrastructuring, translation, movement and material improvisation they navigate daily life in the semi-constricted and highly precarious space of the refugee protection regime and carve out its social and material landscape. Thus, this study challenges static understandings of camps and restricted conditions and puts forward theoretical implications for the rethinking and reassessment of agency in such contexts by calling for closer attention to ordinary practices.

Web and Communication Technologies and Internet-Related Social Issues - HSI 2005: 3rd International Conference on Human-Society@Internet, Tokyo, Japan, July 27-29, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #3597)

The Internet has now become an integral part of everyday life for hundreds of millions of people around the world. The uses of the Internet have augmented commerce, communication, education, governance, entertainment, health care, etc. E-mail has become an indispensable part of life; the Web has become an indispensable source of information on just about everything; people now use governmentWebsitestoreceiveinstructionsandinformation,and?lepaperwork with the government; many major online businesses have been created, such as Amazon, eBay, Google, Travelocity, eTrade, etc. However, the uses of the Internet have also had serious negative e?ects, - cluding spam, the spreading of viruses and worms, spyware, phishing, hacking, online fraud, invasions of privacy, etc. Viruses and worms often bring down tens of millions of computers around the world; many people get duped into furni- ing their personal identi?cations, and bank and insurance account information, etc. ; hackers break into government and corporation computers to steal cri- cal data; unsubstantiated rumors about individuals or organizations spread like wild?re on the Internet, etc. Further, the uses of the Internet are creating new paradigms in areas such as copyright, governance, etc. The widespread use of peer-to-peer ?le sharing systems, started by Napster,is forcing a reassessment of the value of holding copyright on digital media. Internet postings by vocal citizens to the Web sites of the news media, governmento?ces, and elected g- ernment o?cials are impacting government policies and swaying the opinions of other citizens. The aim of the International Conference on Human.

Web Communication Technologies and Internet-Related Social Issues - HSI 2003: Second International Conference on Human Society@Internet, Seoul, Korea, June 18-20, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2713)

The refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human.Society@Interet, HSI 2003,held in Seoul, Korea, in June 2003. The 57 revised full papers and 31 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web performance, authentication, social issues, security and document access, routing, XML, Internet applications, e-business, scheduling and resource allocation, wireless networks, Web components, multimedia communications, e-payment and auctions, cyber education, mobility and handoff, Internet protocols, mobile agents, and communications.

Wechsel- und Scheckrecht: Erläuterungen für die Praxis

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match

WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke, and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment, seizing her lands, beating her, terrorising servants, introducing prostitutes to the family home, kidnapping his own sister. But finally after many years, a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day and was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her and undertook a week-long rampage of terror and cruelty until the law finally caught up with him.

Wege durch die Unternehmenskrise: Sanieren statt Liquidieren - Ein Praxisleitfaden für Unternehmer und Berater

Mit der vierten komplett überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage wenden wir uns an alle Berater und Entscheidungsträger, die nicht täglich und ausnahmslos mit den Fragen der Unternehmenskrise beschäftigt sind. Bereits in den vorherigen drei Auflagen wie auch jetzt verzichten wir ganz bewusst auf juristische und/oder betriebswirtschaftliche Details, um eine möglichst hohe Praxisrelevanz gerade für Nichtfachleute zu erreichen. Ergänzt wird der Text durch viele Praxishilfen (Checklisten und Muster), die jedem Leser über das Online-Angebot des Verlages auch zum Download zur Verfügung stehen.

Wege durch die Unternehmenskrise: Sanieren statt Liquidieren - Ein Praxisleitfaden für Unternehmer und Berater

Mit der fünften, aktualisierten und erweiterten Auflage wenden sich Dr. Christoph Niering und Diplm.-Kfm. Christoph Hillebrand an alle Berater und Entscheidungsträger, die nicht täglich und ausnahmslos mit den Fragen der Unternehmenskrise beschäftigt sind. Bereits in den vorherigen vier Auflagen wie auch jetzt verzichten die Autoren ganz bewusst auf juristische und/oder betriebswirtschaftliche Details, um eine möglichst hohe Praxisrelevanz gerade für Nichtfachleute zu erreichen. Ergänzt wird der Text durch viele Praxishilfen (Checklisten und Muster), die jedem Leser über das Online-Angebot des Verlages auch zum Download zur Verfügung stehen.

Wege zur Koordinierung völkerrechtlicher Verträge: Völkervertragsrechtliche und institutionelle Ansätze (Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht #175)

Die Autorin untersucht am Beispiel umweltvölkerrechtlicher Verträge, inwiefern inhaltliche Überschneidungen und Konflikte zwischen Ansätzen, Zielen und konkreten Regelungen der betroffenen Verträge bestehen und welche Konsequenzen dies für ein kohärentes Regelungsgefüge im Völkerrecht hat. Eine detaillierte und umfassende Erörterung völkervertragsrechtlicher Ansätze mit neuen Lösungswegen zur Bewältigung eines Problems, das in seiner Bedeutung nicht auf das Umweltvölkerrecht beschränkt ist.

Wege zur Lösung globaler Umweltprobleme: Jahresgutachten 1995 (Welt im Wandel #1995)

Führende Wissenschaftler beschreiben in ihrem Jahresgutachten Wege zur Lösung globaler Umweltprobleme. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei gesellschaftliche Voraussetzungen und internationale Vereinbarungen zur Erreichung dieses Zieles. Der Bericht ermöglicht allen an der Lösung von Umweltproblemen Interessierten einen fundierten Einblick in die Problematik. Concise text: Führende Wissenschaftler beschreiben in ihrem Jahresgutachten Wege zur Lösung globaler Umweltprobleme. Schwerpunkte sind gesellschaftliche Voraussetzungen und internationale Vereinbarungen zur Erreichung dieses Zieles.

Wegweiser für den Erfinder: Von der Aufgabe über die Idee zum Patent (VDI-Buch)

Sie sind Konstrukteur, Entwicklungsingenieur oder Erfinder? Sie beherrschen die Technik, haben aber keine Zeit, sich mühsam wichtige, aktuelle Informationen zu erarbeiten? Dann lesen Sie in dieser "ballastfreien" Anleitung nach: ganzheitlich und systematisch - von der Aufgabenstellung bis hin zur Patentverwertung. Mit wertvollen Tipps und Tricks aus der Praxis. Plus: Fachtexte; die Nutzung elektronischer Informationssysteme mit konkretem Anwendungsbeispiel. Neu in der 3. aktualisierten, erweiterten Auflage: Innovationsstrategien und –beratung, Patentverwertung. Im deutlich erweiterten Anhang: nützliche Adressen, Links, Literaturverzeichnis.

Wegweiser für den Erfinder: Von der Aufgabe über die Idee zum Patent

Das Thema Erfindung wird ganzheitlich von der Aufgabenstellung bis zur Patentverwertung behandelt. Die Autoren, selbst Industriefachleute, geben dazu wertvolle Tips und Tricks aus der Praxis.

Weighing and Reasoning: Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome

John Broome has made major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy. His research combines the formal method of economics with philosophical analysis. Broome's works stretch over formal axiology, decision theory, philosophy of economics, population axiology, the value of life, the ethics of climate change, the nature of rationality, and practical and theoretical reasoning. Weighing and Reasoning brings together fifteen original essays from leading philosophers who have been influenced by the work and thought of John Broome. It aims to offer a comprehensive evaluation of Broome's wide-ranging and far-reaching philosophical works over the past thirty years. The volume comprises two parts. The first part is focused on Broome's work on the theory of value, as exemplified in his books Weighing Goods, Weighing Lives, Economics out of Economics, and Climate Matters. The second part is focused on his work on practical and theoretical reasoning, which culminated in his Rationality through Reasoning. This volume also includes a piece by Broome on his intellectual history to date.

Weighing Lives in War (Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law)

The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war. The volume explores the moral and legal issues in the modern law of war in three major categories. In so doing, the contributions will look for new and innovative approaches to understanding the process of weighing lives implicit in all theories of jus in bello: who counts in war, understanding proportionality, and weighing lives in asymmetric conflicts. These questions arise on multiple levels and require interdisciplinary consideration of both philosophical and legal themes.

Weighing Lives in War (Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law)

The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war. The volume explores the moral and legal issues in the modern law of war in three major categories. In so doing, the contributions will look for new and innovative approaches to understanding the process of weighing lives implicit in all theories of jus in bello: who counts in war, understanding proportionality, and weighing lives in asymmetric conflicts. These questions arise on multiple levels and require interdisciplinary consideration of both philosophical and legal themes.

Weighing Reasons

In recent decades normative reasons-considerations that count in favor of one thing or another-have come to the theoretical fore in ethics and epistemology. A major attraction of normative reasons is that they have weight or strength. Reasons are particular considerations that count in favor of actions or attitudes to some degree. This feature is attractive to theorists who want to explain more complex normative phenomena in terms of a notion that is weighted. This volume aims to provide the beginnings for a theory of weight. The fourteen new essays fall into three groups. One set of essays addresses questions about the nature of weight. Topics include the relations between reasons and conditions and modifiers, between reasons and other weighted notions such as commitments, and different models of the interaction of reasons. A second set of essays addresses substantive questions: questions about weight relevant to value-first, desire-first, evidence-first and other normative research programs. A third set of essays applies issues in the theory of weight to broader ethical debates. The book thus not only makes novel contributions to debates in ethics and epistemology about the nature of normative reasons and their weight, it also makes a strong case for the theoretical fruitfulness of the ideology of normative reasons.

Weighing Reasons

In recent decades normative reasons-considerations that count in favor of one thing or another-have come to the theoretical fore in ethics and epistemology. A major attraction of normative reasons is that they have weight or strength. Reasons are particular considerations that count in favor of actions or attitudes to some degree. This feature is attractive to theorists who want to explain more complex normative phenomena in terms of a notion that is weighted. This volume aims to provide the beginnings for a theory of weight. The fourteen new essays fall into three groups. One set of essays addresses questions about the nature of weight. Topics include the relations between reasons and conditions and modifiers, between reasons and other weighted notions such as commitments, and different models of the interaction of reasons. A second set of essays addresses substantive questions: questions about weight relevant to value-first, desire-first, evidence-first and other normative research programs. A third set of essays applies issues in the theory of weight to broader ethical debates. The book thus not only makes novel contributions to debates in ethics and epistemology about the nature of normative reasons and their weight, it also makes a strong case for the theoretical fruitfulness of the ideology of normative reasons.

The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good Life

The Weight of Things explores the hard questions of our daily lives, examining both classic and contemporary accounts of what it means to lead 'the good life'. Looks at the views of philosophers such as Aristotle, the Stoics, Mill, Nietzsche, and Sartre as well as contributions from other traditions, such as Buddhism Incorporates key arguments from contemporary philosophers including Peter Singer, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Nozick, John Finnis, and Susan Wolf Uses examples from biography, literature, history, movies and media, and the news Gives a fresh perspective on the hard questions of our daily lives An engaging read; an excellent book for both students and general readers

Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Encountering Traditions)

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life—and digs deep into the American political imagination—through a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, the nineteenth-century abolitionist who took up arms against the state in the name of a higher law. Smith argues that the key to limiting violence is not its separation from religion, but its connection to richer and more critical modes of religious reflection. Weird John Brown develops a negative political theology that challenges both the ways we remember American history and the ways we think about the nature, meaning, and exercise of violence.

Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism. Brian Onishi argues that wonder has explanatory power for the constitution of the world and the organization of meaning. To do this, he appeals to both fiction (speculative and Weird fiction in particular) and quantum physics. More specifically, he argues that the focus of Weird fiction on impossible experiences and a feeling of something just beyond the limits of one’s grasp dramatizes the speculative reach beyond the limits of our understanding. But more than a tool for knowledge acquisition, wonder is an organizing property of objects. Like the collapse of superposition in quantum physics, reality is constituted when objects reveal themselves to other objects and thereby organize themselves into complex objects. Since no relation is exhaustive, the capacity to wonder remains at a material level, and the possibility of reorganization is ever present. Ultimately, Onishi argues for a speculative eco-phenomenology with wonder as an engine for a Weird environmental ethics.

Weiter Denken: Plädoyer für eine bürgernahe Versöhnung von Ökologie, Ökonomie und Sozialstaat

Das 21. Jahrhundert erfordert ein konsequentes Weiter-Denken, das weit über die Treibhausgasbedrohung hinausgeht: Wie beenden wir die fortlaufende Naturzerstörung? Was können wir gegen die fortgeschrittene Vergiftung unserer Lebensgrundlagen unternehmen? Wie entschärfen wir das Problem der Ressourcenverknappung? Des Ausuferns der Wertschöpfungsketten? Eines Wirtschaftswachstums ohne Rücksicht auf Mensch und Natur? Und nicht zuletzt: Welches Erbe wollen wir den nächsten Generationen hinterlassen? Diese Fragen sind nunmehr in der Gegenwart angekommen. Das vorliegende Buch gibt darauf Antworten im Sinne eines Fahrplans für eine machbare gesellschaftliche Transformation in Deutschland. Es gibt einen kritisch-konstruktiven Überblick über gangbare Wege in die Nachhaltigkeit und empfiehlt die „Klimaschutz-Rente“ als ein Instrument, um die notwendige Versöhnung von Ökologie, Ökonomie und Sozialstaat bürger- und praxisnah zu finanzieren.

Weiterbildungsnormen der Ärztekammern auf dem rechtlichen Prüfstand (MedR Schriftenreihe Medizinrecht)

Weiterentwicklung der Lageberichterstattung und ihrer Prüfung: Eine normative und empirische Untersuchung aus nationaler und internationaler Sicht (Schriften zu Wirtschaftsprüfung, Steuerlehre und Controlling)

Cristina Müller-Burmeister entwickelt ein Konzeptionsmodell für wesentliche Lageberichtskomponenten zur Durchführung einer normativen und empirischen Inhaltsanalyse. Dazu verbindet sie kommunikationstheoretische Forschungsansätze mit den Rechnungslegungs- und Prüfungsnormen, wie dem DRS 20 und dem IDW PS 350 n.F. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass Unternehmen sich mit dem Grundsatz ordnungsmäßiger Lageberichterstattung (GoL) Wesentlichkeit durch einen standardisierten Prozess auseinandersetzen sollten, der neben den eigenen steuerungsrelevanten Informationen auch die entscheidungsnützlichen Informationsbedürfnisse der Stakeholder berücksichtigen sollte. Darüber hinaus zeigt die Autorin Entwicklungsschritte für eine Harmonisierung der internationalen Lageberichterstattung und ihrer Prüfung auf, die u.a. das Integrated Reporting umfassen.