Rules concerning the means and methods of warfare during non - international armed conflicts

Abstract

It is known that international humanitarian law is based on a number of important principles that branch turn to detailed provisions aimed as a whole to determine the necessary guarantees to reduce the effects of armed conflicts and military operations in particular, to persons who are not participating in the fighting or who are unable to participate. And extends those guarantees also to the property that arenot military objectives. And impose the provisions of internationalhumanitarian law, warring parties to respect the safeguards contained in the Mwathigah. And restrict or prohibit the use of certain means andmethods in fighting.And international humanitarian law but does not prevent war, itseeks to reduce their impact on the interests of the requirements ofhumanity that can not be ignored by military necessity. In addition to the principles of "humanity" and "military necessity"'re going to the bases of "distinction" between military targets and civilians and civilian objects or property and "proportionality" in carrying out acts of war. Through the review of these four principles, we can observe the relation between content and its significance in international humanitarian law and the rulings of Islam. And talking in the context of this comparison summary is not theoretical in nature, but depends on the elements of no value as applied to the provisions of the abstract and what did not function in reality.Including international humanitarian law, some international rulesconcerning the means of fighting and his methods, since there are someprovisions that limit the use of means and methods of a particular during armed conflicts, whether to ban the use of specific methods in the fighting or prohibit or restrict the use of certain types of weapons, and comes to devote this rules in the law of armed conflict in application of the principle of the law of war which restricts the power of the parties to the conflict in the choice of means damage to the enemy.Taking the international humanitarian law is limited and narrow ofarmed conflict is international, but most of the rules concerning thereduction of the means of fighting and methods are originally customaryrules, and is usually characterized by the latter as the general rules and flexible applied to all armed conflicts, that the provisions of this law ofnature preventative designed to protect rights.