Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict presents a clear-eyed look at the dilemmas facing regular combatants as they confront enemies in the modern battlespace, and especially the complications arising from the new styles of conflict where enemy and civilian populations merge.

Originally published: Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.

Protecting civilians during violent conflict : an issue in context /David W. Lovell -- Are attacks on civilians always wrong? / Stephen Nathanson -- Civilian immunity as an almost absolute moral rule / Igor Primoratz -- Collateral damage : intending evil and doing evil / Dean Cocking -- The protection of civilians from violence and the effects of attacks in international humanitarian law / Hitoshi Nasu -- Discriminate warfare : the military necessity-humanity dialectic of international humanitarian law / Michael N. Schmitt -- Who is protected under international humanitarian law? Finding a definition of 'Direct Participation in Hostilities' / Helen Durham and Eve Massingham -- Protecting civilians in armed conflict through rules of engagement / Rob McLaughlin -- Educating for ethical behaviour? Preparing military leaders for ethical challenges / David W. Lovell -- First do no harm : refugee law as a response to armed conflict / Penelope Mathew -- Private military and security companies and the 'Civilianization' of war / Andrew Alexandra -- Remote killing and drive-by wars / David Whetham -- Discrimination and non-lethal weapons : issues for the future military / Stephen Coleman -- Surviving in a war zone : the problem of civilian casualties in Afghanistan / William Maley -- The protection of civilians during Israeli-Hamas conflict : the Goldstone Report / Richard D. Rosen -- An assessment of the Gaza Report's contribution to the development of international humanitarian law / Susan Breau.