Wars Humanising Wars

... century, but it helped the humanity realise the need to prevent such large-scale atrocities which show the darkest corners of human nature. In fact, one can easily find correlation between some significant armed conflicts and the evolution of IHL and international law in general: before WWII, 1907 Convention on War at Sea was signed after the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War, 1929 Geneva Conventions – after World War I, and in post-war period the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions were following the decolonisation wars and Vietnam. In the end, one might wonder: does the humanity need wars to be humane? 1 . See,...