Hague Conventions
International warfare laws
The Hague Conventions are a series of international treaties negotiated at conferences in the Netherlands in 1899 and 1907, establishing rules for the conduct of war and the peaceful settlement of disputes.
They codified laws governing treatment of prisoners, restrictions on certain weapons, and rights of neutral nations.
The conventions laid groundwork for modern international humanitarian law: The bombing of civilian targets violated the Hague Conventions.
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- laws of warRules constraining armed conflict
- neutralityState of taking sides
- rules of engagementConstraints on military action
- Geneva ConventionsWartime humanitarian treaties
sovereignty · prisoners of war · arbitration · reprisals · proportionality · mediation · pacta sunt servanda · armistice · international court · Kellogg-Briand Pact · Treaty of Versailles · jurisdiction · diplomatic immunity · peace conferences · military occupation · occupied territory · neutral territory · ceasefire
- international lawinternational law, treaty, treaties, conventions, protocols
- 19th Century TreatiesTreaty of Ghent, Treaty of Berlin, Treaty of Frankfurt, Treaty of Nanking, Treaty of Shimonoseki
- The Haguediplomatic quarter, government buildings, ministries, International Criminal Court, ICC
- treatiestreaty, treaties, peace treaty, peace treaties, bilateral treaty
- War Ethicsjust war, rules of war, rules of engagement, Geneva Conventions, proportionality
- conflict of lawsapplicable law, characterization, characterisation, comity, escape clauses
Hague Conventionstotal war
Conflict engaging entire nations
war crimes · genocide · ethnic cleansing · Holocaust · scorched earth
Hague Conventionswars of aggression
Military attacks initiated unjustly
imperialism · gunboat diplomacy · Lebensraum · preemptive war · expansionism
Hague Conventionscollective punishment
Penalizing entire group for individual's actions