The idea that international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) are complementary, rather than mutually exclusive regimes generated a paradigmatic shift in the international legal discourse. The reconciliation was driven by a humanistic ethos and its purpose was to
offer greater protection of the rights to life, liberty and dignity of all individuals under all circumstances. The complementarity of both regimes currently enjoys the status of the new orthodoxy and simultaneously invites critical reflection. This collection of essays accepts the invitation,
offering diverse assessments of the merits of taking human rights to the battlefields of the twenty-first century.
The book comprises three parts: Part I focuses on the paradigmatic (security based "armed conflict" vs. human rights centered "law enforcement" paradigms) and the normative
complexities of the interaction between both regimes in the "fight against terror" and in other, allegedly new, types of wars. Part II discusses the interplay between IHRL and IHL in the context of three specific regimes: belligerent occupation; the European Court of Human Rights and the protection
of cultural heritage. Part III explores the potential fusion of IHL and IHRL into a new paradigm in two areas: post-bellum accountability and compensation to victims of war crimes.
The range of issues, multitude of competing norms and narratives, and shifting paradigms explored in this
collection, converse with each other. This conversation mirrors the process through which international law - paying deference to political realities while simultaneously seeking to transcend them - charts new pathways to advance its humanizing project.
I. Entree
1. Orna Ben-Naftali: Introduction: Pas de Deux
II. Adagio
2. Yuval Shany: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law as Competing Legal Paradigm for Fighting Terror
3. Marco Sassóli: The Role of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in New Types of Armed
Conflicts
4. Marko Milanovic: Norm Conflicts, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law
III. Variations
5. Orna Ben-Naftali: PathoLAWgical Occupation: Normalizing the Exceptional Case of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Other Legal Pathologies
6. Andrea
Gioia: The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Monitoring Compliance with Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict
7. Ana Filipa Vrdoljak: Cultural Heritage in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
IV. Coda
8. Paola Gaeta: Are Victims of War Crimes Entitled to
Compensation?
9. Christine Bell: Post-conflict Accountability and the Reshaping of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
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Orna Ben-Naftali is Professor of International Law and Dean of the Law School at the College of Management Academic Studies in Israel. A graduate of The Law Faculty of Tel-Aviv University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and Harvard University, she taught at Brandeis
University and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and worked in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the United Nations. Ben-Naftali's publications focus on International Humanitarian Law, most particularly, the Law of Belligerent Occupation; International Criminal Law and on the
Cultural Study of Law. She is a member of the board of editors of the European Journal of International Law; founding member of the executive board of Concord - the Research Centre for the Interplay between International Norms and Israeli Law, and a member of the executive board of B'tselem - the
Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
