War Crime

War Crime

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on war crime explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

Resources

Further Reading

• The entry “crime, war” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press

Hierarchical Display of War crime

Law > Rights and freedoms > Human rights > International human rights law
International Relations > International security > International conflict > War

War crime

Concept of War crime

See the dictionary definition of War crime.

Characteristics of War crime

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Resources

Translation of War crime

• Spanish: Crimen de guerra
• French: Crime de guerre
• German: Kriegsverbrechen
• Italian: Crimine di guerra
• Portuguese: Crime de guerra
• Polish: Przestępstwo wojenne

Thesaurus of War crime

Law > Rights and freedoms > Human rights > International human rights law > War crime
International Relations > International security > International conflict > War > War crime

See also

• War
• Border war
• Ethnic cleansing
• Asymmetric warfare
• Nuclear war
• Second World War
• First World War
• War of independence

• War criminal