Application of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law to the Armed Conflicts of the Sudan Complementary or mutually exclusive regimes?

The death toll resulting from all the armed conflicts in the Sudan, including south Sudan and Darfur, has far exceeded that of the victims of many recent conflicts combined together; more than those of Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and East Timor. Despite the tragic death toll, massive displacement, alleged genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, the Sudanese case has neither featured in the legal literature nor been mentioned in the practice of international Tribunals. This book aims to rectify this by focusing on the Sudans armed conflicts as a case study. Unlike the approach followed in the preponderant legal literature, which tends to focus on International Humanitarian Law as the only applicable regime in armed conflicts, this book brings on board Human Rights Law, which can be applied side by side with International Humanitarian Law. In this sense, it tries to build bridges between the two branches of international law. It focuses on the operation of both regi

Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker is Assistant Professor of International Law, Deputy Dean and Head of International and Comparative Law Department at the Faculty of Law, University of Khartoum. He is the team leader of the DJAM, Rule of Law Cluster. He has also contributed chapters in books as well as publishing in peer reviewed international journals in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, USA, the Netherlands, and South Africa. He has also contributed in research projects with academic and research institutions in European and American Universities. Dr. Babiker also worked as a Legal Advisor and a Human Rights Officer with several UN and AU peacekeeping operations in Sudan such as AMIS, UNMIS, UNMAID and a Consultant with a number of UN agencies and international NGOs, with particular focus on Darfur.