The Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (JILPAC) is an international law journal published quarterly by the Secretary General of the German Red Cross

German Red Cross

The German Red Cross , or the DRK, is the national Red Cross Society in Germany.With over 4.5 million members, it is the third largest Red Cross society in the world. The German Red Cross offers a wide range of services within and outside Germany...

, Berlin, and the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict. It was initially founded in 1988 and started off as a mere German publication named "Humanitäres Völkerrecht - Informationsschriften" (HuV-I). The Journal is addressed towards lawyers, people interested in the legal and political scene and members of humanitarian organisations.

The Journal's content

The journal is unique among German publications as it features articles both in German and in English. This ensures that articles from renowned scholars who do not speak German are included and it also widens the scope of potential readers. Thus, it was recognised in projects of the United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross

International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. States parties to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005, have given the ICRC a mandate to protect the victims of international and...

 (ICRC), as well as in publications in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The content of the journal mainly consists of scientific articles on the implementation of international humanitarian law

International humanitarian law

International humanitarian law , often referred to as the laws of war, the laws and customs of war or the law of armed conflict, is the legal corpus that comprises "the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Conventions, as well as subsequent treaties, case law, and customary international law." It...

, human rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

 and peace-keeping

Peacekeeping

Peacekeeping is an activity that aims to create the conditions for lasting peace. It is distinguished from both peacebuilding and peacemaking....

 law. It features relevant and up to date articles on topics or events such as the Gulf war, the conflict in former Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...

, rights of children, the protection of cultural good the development of international criminal justice

Criminal justice

Criminal Justice is the system of practices and institutions of governments directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts...

, the was in Iraq, September 11, the Caucasus, the war in Afghanistan

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Afghan United Front launched Operation Enduring Freedom...

, the war in Lebanon, the Global Was on Terrorism

Terrorism

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...

, the debate concerning the prohibition of cluster bomb

Cluster bomb

A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller sub-munitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill enemy personnel and destroy vehicles...

s.

Editors and Contributors

The board of editors is composed of members of the Institute: Hans-Joachim Heintze, Joachim Wolf, Sven Peterke and Jeannette Bell. One of the aims of the journal is to combine academic examination and practical usefulness for the dissemination of international humanitarian law. For this reason, every issue focuses on the dissemination work of the German Red Cross as well as on recent international law case law

Case law

In law, case law is the set of reported judicial decisions of selected appellate courts and other courts of first instance which make new interpretations of the law and, therefore, can be cited as precedents in a process known as stare decisis...

. Further contributions are a lexicon on terms of international humanitarian law and reviews of conferences and new books.