Papers from the Conference on International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts, organised by the Spanish Red Cross and the Rafael del Pino Foundation and held in Madrid and at the Foundation's headquarters on 17 and 18 November 2004. The conference was mainly aimed at the academic world, the legal profession and the judiciary, non-governmental organisations, professionals and scholars of law, information sciences, social and political sciences, as well as numerous people related to or interested in the analysis of International Criminal Justice.
The topics covered and their authors are:
- International humanitarian law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts (Jacques Moreillon)
- The International Human Rights System and Globalisation (Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo)
- International Criminal Protection of War Victims: War Crimes in the Rome Statute (Sylvia Steiner)
- The protection of the civilian population from the use of certain small arms: mines, explosive residues and portable and light weapons (José Luis Doménech Omedas).
- Biological agents, the biological threat and international humanitarian law (Vicente Otero Solana)
- The use of nuclear weapons under international humanitarian law (Antoni Pigrau Solé)
- The process of adoption and development of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (José Luis Rodríguez-Villasante y Prieto)
- The Principle of Universal Jurisdiction and the Statute of the International Criminal Court (Jorge Pueyo Losa)
- The Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (Rogelio Gómez Guillamón)
- The international criminal court and the right to defence (Fernando Oliván)