The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians

Gilad Ben-Nun is Senior Researcher at Leipzig University’s Centre for Area Studies, where he teaches Global Studies and the History of International Law. Previously, he was Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the International Law Department of Verona University, a Ford Foundation Research Fellow at UNIDIR and a UN Middle East Program Officer. He has published the book Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and the History of Migration Law (I.B.Tauris, 2017) which was nominated for the 2017 US National Jewish book award.

Introduction: ‘A Treaty after Trauma’
Chapter 1: Background: Significant Historical Omissions in GC-IV’s Current Literature

PART 1: PROTECTION FOR ALL: THE MAKING OF COMMON ARTICLE 3
Chapter 2: Initial Ideas for Civilian Protection: The Dilemma of State Consent
Chapter 3: Stockholm’s Universalist Revolution: Protections to all Civilians
Chapter 4: The Final Act: The Soviets Come on Board – Geneva 1949

PART 2: THE INHERENT ILLEGITIMACY OF OCCUPATION: ARTICLES 49 & 68
Chapter 5: Conquest Contested: Georg Cohn, Carl Schmitt and Non-Recognition
Chapter 6: Cohn’s Drafting of the Prohibition on Settlements – Article 49 paragraph 6
Chapter 7: Georg Cohn’s Crusade Against the Death Penalty -Art. 68

PART 3: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST NON-APPLICABILITY
Chapter 8: Arbitration, Judicial Settlement and the ICJ’s roles vis-à-vis GC-IV
Chapter 9: Non-Application from Colonialism to Terrorism: 1950s-2000s
Conclusion

Appendix GC-IV’s French 1st Draft Adopted in Geneva – April 1947
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography and Sources