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To Serve the Enemy: Informers, Collaborators, and the Laws of Armed Conflict
Despite the harsh treatment that can befall collaborators in armed conflict, and despite collaboration often not being voluntary, international law leaves unanswered the ethical questions posed by those who join with the enemy. Shane Darcy explores the issue, calling for a much needed assessment of the protections granted to collaborators in war.
| Author(s) | By Shane Darcy (Senior Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Senior Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Ireland). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 256 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 3 Oct 2019 |
| Availability | Available |
Despite the harsh treatment that can befall collaborators in armed conflict, and despite collaboration often not being voluntary, international law leaves unanswered the ethical questions posed by those who join with the enemy. Shane Darcy explores the issue, calling for a much needed assessment of the protections granted to collaborators in war.
Introduction 1: History and Practice of Collaboration in Armed Conflict 2: International Humanitarian Law on the Recruitment and Use of Informers and Collaborators 3: Individual Status under International Humanitarian Law 4: Wartime Trial and Treatmen
Dr. Shane Darcy is a senior lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, in the National University of Ireland Galway, a globally recognized institution for teaching and research on human rights and humanitarian law. He has published widely in the fiel
