In day one of PILPG’s Online International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Summer School program, Professor Rick Lorenz, and Dr. Greg Noone provided the fundamental principles, sources and purpose of the Law of Armed Conflict, also known as International Humanitarian Law, and set the stage for how it interacts with human rights. Click the video below to access a recording of this training, you can also click on the buttons below to find the slides used to guide the conversation.
Click the image above to watch a recording of Day 1 of PILPG’s International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Summer School
Schedule:
Introduction to the training
Introduction to International Humanitarian Law: fundamental principles; sources; purpose (by Professor Rick Lorenz & Dr. Gregory Noone)
Break
Intersection of human rights and International Humanitarian Law; jus in bello versus jus ad bellum; IAC vs NIAC; self defense; command responsibility (by Professor Rick Lorenz & Dr. Gregory Noone)
Experts:
Dr. Gregory P. Noone is the Executive Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG). Dr. Noone currently leads the Yemen track two diplomacy team and served as the Senior Legal Advisor for the Human Rights Documentation Solutions project. Dr. Noone has conducted PILPG justice system assessments in Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire as well as provided transitional justice assistance in post-Gaddafi Libya and to the Syrian opposition. Dr. Noone was also part of the international effort investigating the Myanmar government’s atrocities committed against their Rohingya population. He worked as an investigator in the refugee camps in Bangladesh and as one of the legal experts on the report’s findings. Previously, Dr. Noone worked as a Senior Program Officer for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), served as a Captain in the United States Navy, as the Commanding Officer of the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) reserve unit, and as the Commanding Officer of the Navy JAG International and Operational Law reserve unit as well as the Director of the Department of Defense’s Periodic Review Secretariat (PRS).
Dr. Greg Noone
Rick Lorenz is a PILPG Senior Peace Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Law School. He previously served as a judge advocate for the US Marine Corps, including a tour as an infantry company commander. He was the senior legal advisor for the US military intervention in Somalia in 1992, and returned there as senior legal advisor for the UN evacuation in 1995. In 1996 he served in Bosnia as a senior legal advisor for the NATO implementation force, and went on to teach Political Science at the National Defense University (NDU). He developed and taught the first course in Environmental Security at NDU in 1997. After his retirement from the Marine Corps as a colonel in 1998 he spent a year as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in St Petersburg, Russia, teaching courses in international law, environmental law and US foreign policy. In 2000 he served as a United Nations legal affairs officer in Kosovo, working in the UN Civil Administration.
Professor Rick Lorenz