International Humanitarian Law and Conflict Variations: Heeding to the Voice of Humanity

This article examines the different variants of conflict, the traditional conceptions and nomenclature used in describing them and the exclusion by traditional humanitarian law of these conflicts from its regulatory ambit. The doctrinal methodology was adopted examining the views of renowned scholars of the law of armed conflict, and primarily examining modern International Law treaties. In its findings, it was observed that International humanitarian law and indeed international law is “State centric” premium is giving to the protection of State sovereignty and territorial integrity than any other thing else which is a far cry of what institutions and law ought to be. There cannot be States without people. Indeed, states are a collection of human beings and like the declaration of the international military tribunal in Nuremberg, States are abstract entities. It is therefore to advance the course of humanity above abstractions like States, the recommendation of this article is hinged on.