The 1998 2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia War and Its Aftermath in International Legal Perspective

This book centres on the war that raged between Eritrea and Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000, a war that caused great loss of life and tremendous devastation. It analyses the war in great detail from an international legal perspective: the nature and the state of the boundary conflict preceding the actual armed conflict, the military actions themselves, the role of the UN peace-keeping mission, the responsibility for the multitude of explosive remnants of the war left behind. Ample attention is paid to the decisions of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission.

This study is not limited to the war and the period immediately following it, it also examines its more extended aftermath prolonging the analysis as far as the more recent improvement in the relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia, away from a situation of 'no war, no peace' that prevailed after the armed conflict ended. The analysis of the war and its aftermath is not only in terms of international legal issues, it has been placed in a wider than strictly legal perspective.

The book is a valuable work for academics and practitioners in international law, human rights and humanitarian law in particular, for political scientists, diplomats, civil servants, historians, and all those others seriously interested in the Horn of Africa.

Andrea de Guttry is Full Professor of Public International Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Harry H.G. Post is Adjunct Professor in the Faculté Libre de Droit of the Université Catholique de Lille in Lille, France.

Gabriella Venturini is Professor Emerita in the Dipartimento di Studi internazionali, giuridici e storico-politici of the Università degli Studi di Milano in Milan, Italy.

The most comprehensive study of the 1998-2000 War between Eritrea and Ethiopia

The critical focus lies on the work of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission

Provides a profound study of the background to and context of the war

This study provides a broad disciplinary perspective including historical, geographical, anthropological, and the points of view of political science and sociology

Analyses the 1998-2000 War between Eritrea and Ethiopia in the light of the jus ad bellum, the jus in bello and also in terms of the jus post bellum

Examines in a wider than a legal perspective the development of relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia since before the War until recent times

Auteur

Andrea de Guttry is Full Professor of Public International Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Harry H.G. Post is Adjunct Professor in the Faculté Libre de Droit of the Université Catholique de Lille in Lille, France.

Gabriella Venturini is Professor Emerita in the Dipartimento di Studi internazionali, giuridici e storico-politici of the Università degli Studi di Milano in Milan, Italy.

Contenu
Part I. The Historical Background of the Conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia.- Chapter 1 The Lines of Tension in the Horn and the Ethiopia-Eritrea Case.- Chapter 2 The Historical Background of the 1998-2000 War: Some Salient Points.- Chapter 3 Burdened by the Past and Stranded in the Present. The Weight of History in the Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia.- Part II. The International Legal Framework for the Settlement of the Dispute.- Chapter. 4 The 2000 Algiers Agreements.- Chapter 5 The Involvement of the UN in the Management of the 1998-2000 Crisis and the Role of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).- Chapter 6 Some Remarks on the Nature and Practice of UNMEE.- Part III. The Boundary Dispute.- Chapter 7 The Ethio-Eritrean Boundary Conflict: The Human Border, the Physical Border, and the Scars of History.- Chapter 8. Law and Politics in the Ethiopian-Eritrean Border Dispute, 2002-2019.- Chapter 9 Indigenous Statehood and International Law in Ethiopia and Eritrea.- Chapter 10 The Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission: A Legal Analysis of the Boundary Delimitation Decision of 13 April 2002 and Relevant Subsequent Decisions.- Chapter 11. The Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission: The Aftermath.- Part IV. The Eritrea-Ethiopia Dispute and the Use of Force.- Chapter 12 International Law as to the Use of Force.- Chapter 13 The Crime of Aggression and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Armed Conflict.- Chapter 14 The Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission's Controversial Ruling on Self-Defence.- Part V. The Eritrea-Ethiopia War and the Law of Armed Conflict.- Chapter 15 International Humanitarian Law and the Conduct of Hostilities in the Case-Law of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission.- Chapter 16 The Treatment of Protected Persons under the Applicable International Law in the Findings of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission.- Chapter 17 Some Critical Comments on the Approach of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission towards the Treatment of Protected Persons in International Humanitarian Law Persons in International Humanitarian Law.- Chapter 18 The Belligerent Occupation of Territory.- Chapter 19 The Law of Belligerent Occupation: Disputed Territory; the Distinction between Invasion and Occupation.- Chapter 20 International Economic Relations and Armed Conflict.- Chapter 21 Some Remarks on the Protection of Property Rights in Time of Armed Conflict.- Part VI. Issues in the Jus Post Bellum.- Chapter 22 State Responsibility for Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the Work of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission: A Reappraisal Ten Years On.- Chapter 23 Claims on Behalf of Individuals before the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission.- Chapter 24 Compensation for War Damage Resulting from Breaches of Jus ad Bellum.- Chapter 25 Some Remarks on Compensation for War Damages under Jus ad Bellum.- Chapter 26 The 17 August 2009 Final Awards of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission.- Chapter 27 The Role of Intergovernmental Agencies in the Prevention of Human Rights Risk in the Aftermath of the 1998-2000 Conflict.- Chapter 28 Explosive Remnants of War.- Part VII. From the 2000 Algiers Agreement to the 2018 Agreement on Peace, Friendship and Comprehensive Cooperation.- Chapter 29 Development in the Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia from 2000 to Nowadays. A First Assessment from an Ethiopian Perspective.- Chapter 30 Development in the Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia from 2000 to Nowadays. A First Assessment from an Eritrean Perspective.- Chapter 31 Women in Eritrea and Ethiopia between Armed Conflict and Peace.- Chapter 32 The 2018 Peace Treaty between Ethiopia and Eritrea and Its Impact on the Horn of Africa Region.- Appendix.