cover image: Responsibilities to Prevent: Responsibilities of Supply-Side Actors to Prevent the Adverse Human Rights Impacts of Arms Exports to Conflict Zones Thesis Submitted at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Fulfilment of the Requirements of the PHD Degree in International Law by Hiruni Alwishewa Thesis N° 1503 Geneva 2024

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Responsibilities to Prevent: Responsibilities of Supply-Side Actors to Prevent the Adverse Human Rights Impacts of Arms Exports to Conflict Zones Thesis Submitted at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Fulfilment of the Requirements of the PHD Degree in International Law by Hiruni Alwishewa Thesis N° 1503 Geneva 2024

2024

International Security and the Golden Age of Arms and Controls..................... 55 i. [...] Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons .............................................................................................................................. 99 III. [...] Scope of the Inquiry into Responsibilities The following section details the limitations in the scope to the inquiry of this thesis, including the focus on preventive responsibilities, supply-side actors, and arms exports to conflict zones. i. [...] Preventive Responsibilities The first limitation in scope in the assessment of responsibilities for arms exports to conflict zones, is the specific focus on ‘preventive responsibilities’: duties and obligations to take actions to prevent adverse consequences. Preventive 18 Antony M Honoré, Responsibility and Fault (Bloomsbury Publishing 1999) 56. [...] 20 This point is presently receiving increased attention in regard to the use of Artificial Intelligence in weapons and warfare. [...] 26 For examinations of the application of international criminal responsibility to actors involved in arms transfers, see: Nina HB Jørgensen (ed), The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers (Cambridge University Press 2020). [...] Selection of Actors and Legal Instruments A comparative analysis of data and reports on arms exports was used to select the key supply-side actors and the legal and other instruments for examination. [...] For a detailed examined of the non-intervention rule and its incorporation in conventional arms controls and arms transfer practices, see: Yihdego (n 5) ch 6. [...] The arms sales were part of hostage negotiations between the United States and Iran. [...] Intermediaries Arms brokers and arms dealers are individuals or private companies who either directly sell arms to recipients or who facilitate the transfer of arms to recipients in exchange for a fee.
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