LEGISLAȚIA UMANITARĂ INTERNAȚIONALĂ
THE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LEGISLATION

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of international law has been described as replacing war with a system of coexistence and peaceful cooperation among states (and other subjects of international law) based on institutions, procedures, and rules of conduct. The elimination of war by international law was a guiding ideal of the League of Nations. The League's efforts to eliminate war "flow in a true river of hope." Since then, however, international law has become much more complex and diversified. But the use of force is still, explicitly or implicitly, one of its major concerns. While trying to enforce a total ban on armed conflict, modern international law does not ignore the fact that war still exists. Its approach is both idealistic and realistic. In cases where the ban on armed conflict is ignored, international law does not transform as such, and becomes ineffective. It has another means of ensuring that the respective armed conflict does not lead to uncontrolled destruction: international humanitarian law, whose purpose is to infuse the conduct of war with the maximum possible civil ethics of life.

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