Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/War crimes

Welcome to the war crimes group, an initiative of the Military history WikiProject.

Purpose & scope

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This task force exists to coordinate efforts at creating and improving articles in the proposed scope:

  1. Any war crimes, massacres, or other crimes that occur as part of an armed conflict.[1]
  2. National and international law that defines and regulates the above.[2]
  3. Articles about any person or organization whose association with the above is a defining characteristic according to reliable sources.[3]
  4. History and historiography of the above.
  5. Memorials and depictions of the above in all media, such as music, film, poetry, and prose.

Eligibility:

  1. Articles that are about an armed conflict or battle during which war crimes occurred are not in scope.[4]
  2. Articles which deal with the period before the 1899 Hague Convention are not in scope.

References

  1. ^ For example, genocide, war rape, forced labor, torture, looting, and crimes against humanity.
  2. ^ Including criminal orders in the generic sense such as the memos authorizing enhanced interrogation.
  3. ^ For example perpetrators, victims, survivors, rescuers/opposition, prosecutors, historians, legal scholars, and journalists.
  4. ^ Therefore, Bosnian War is not in scope but Bosnian genocide is; World War II is not in scope but German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war is.

Participants

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Open tasks

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Worklist

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Article Grade Editor(s) currently working Notes
Incitement to genocide C buidhe 21:57, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia Start buidhe 21:57, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Other tasks

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Resources

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Example articles
Resources
  • Bloxham, Donald; Moses, A. Dirk, eds. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923211-6.
  • Clapham, Andrew; Gaeta, Paola; Haeck, Tom, eds. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955969-5.
  • Geras, Norman (2013). Crimes Against Humanity: Birth of a concept. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-84779-771-1.
  • Power, Jonathan (2017). Ending War Crimes, Chasing the War Criminals. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-34634-5.
  • Robinson, Darryl, ed. (2020). The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-882520-3.
  • Schabas, William A. (2009) [2000]. Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes (second ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88397-9.
  • Waterlow, Jonathan; Schuhmacher, Jacques (2018). War Crimes Trials and Investigations: A Multi-Disciplinary Introduction. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-64072-3.