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- Title
FRAGILE BARRIERS: INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW IN THE POLAR REGIONS.
- Authors
WYGENE CHONG
- Abstract
Peace is a word often associated with the polar regions. This is on account of their remoteness, climatic extremes and relative lack of human interference. However, humanity has managed to reach these latitudes, and with it has come the potential for armed conflict. Provisions in Polar Law provide fragile barriers to armed conflict, which have already been breached in the past. International Humanitarian Law then takes precedence. This paper argues that the latter is inadequately developed to protect the pristine environments of the poles. A multilateral conference could alter the anthropocentric design of the law of armed conflict to a more ecocentric interpretation for the polar regions and similar environments.
- Subjects
POLAR regions; HUMANITARIAN law
- Publication
University of Western Australia Law Review, 2017, Vol 42, Issue 2, p110
- ISSN
0042-0328
- Publication type
Article