Leandro, Antonio --- "Arms transfer and complicity in war crimes" [2013] ELECD 1063; in Pocar, Fausto; Pedrazzi, Marco; Frulli, Micaela (eds), "War Crimes and the Conduct of Hostilities" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 225

Book Title: War Crimes and the Conduct of Hostilities

Editor(s): Pocar, Fausto; Pedrazzi, Marco; Frulli, Micaela

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781955918

Section: Chapter 13

Section Title: Arms transfer and complicity in war crimes

Author(s): Leandro, Antonio

Number of pages: 16

Abstract/Description:

States and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have established means to combat the trafficking of arms prohibited under international law as well as the trafficking of conventional weapons whose ultimate use is highly likely to result in a violation of international law or international humanitarian law (IHL). These undertakings concern, among other things, the State’s and the individual’s responsibility for the transfer of weapons as well as for the transfer of the basic materials required for arms making. As far as the prohibited arms are concerned the relevant treaties also prohibit their transfer. For instance Art 1 (1) (b) of the Convention on Cluster Munitions bans inter alia the production, development and direct or indirect transfer of cluster munitions while Art I of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons undertakes the ban of those conducts as well as mandates the destruction of chemical weapons.