JIB/JAB - Episode 32: Boyd Van Dijk on the Making of the Geneva Conventions
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Geneva Conventions were adopted in August 1949 after negotiations that took several months over the summer. It was a process that went back to the interwar period and the 1920s after the first World War, when all the key concepts of what later became humanitarian law were coined. The discussions about fundamental revision of the laws of war through the Geneva Conventions is a discussion that took water decades instead of months as most people assume.
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