IRRC No. 891/892

A NATO perspective on applicability and application of IHL to multinational forces

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Abstract
Questions of the applicability and application of international humanitarian law (IHL) to multinational forces are of central interest to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO, also referred to as 'the Alliance' or 'the Organisation'). Far from being incidental, multinational military coordination is the Organisation's raison d'être and the driving concept behind its methods, history and operations. Since the end of the Cold War, it has conducted a series of major multinational military operations – in and around the Balkans, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewhere – in which questions of the application of IHL have inevitably arisen.

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