Category: Human Rights in Wargames

  • Civilians in wargames

    Civilians in wargames

    First to start with a disclaimer. I am quite new to wargaming, and have not played a lot of games. So probably I will overlook a lot of rules and concepts. But I will try to write some summary I could find right now. In general wargames don’t bother to much with civilians. I have…

  • What are human rights in war?

    What are human rights in war?

    To look deeper into human rights in war, I have looked to the internationally general accepted rules. Please be aware that this is a quite modern creation, which was first negotiated after world war 2, and updated several times. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of…

  • Human rights in wargaming

    Human rights in wargaming

    In my research for the Ethiopian-Eritrean-Somali conflict, I encountered a lot of stories which are violating human rights. It started with reading the book Ethiopian-Eritrean wars Volume 2. As my interest is mostly on the aerial war, I didn’t bother that much on the ground war. I had already read the first volume and the…