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"Articles Common to the Geneva Conventions" [2005] ELECD 308; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 85

Section Title: Articles Common to the Geneva Conventions

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

85. Articles Common to the Geneva
Conventions

Commentary: For the roles and responsibilities of corporations in zones of
conflict, see further, International Alert/Council on Economic Priorities/PWBLF
(2000), `The Business of Peace: The Private Sector as a Partner in Conflict
Prevention and Resolution', London; OHCHR (2001), `Global Compact Dialogue on
the Role of the Private Sector in Zones of Conflict', Palais Wilson; Global Compact
Office (2002), `Business Guide for Conflict Impact Assessment and Risk
Management'; Global Compact Office (2005), Enabling Economies of Peace: Public Policy
for Conflict-Sensitive Business, New York; World Bank (2005), `International
Companies and Post-Conflict Reconstruction; Cross-Sectoral Comparisons', Paper
No. 22, Washington, DC. See also, the activities of the International Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC; www.icrc.org) and the Business Humanitarian Forum (BHF;
www.bhforum.ch). For academic commentary, see Carbonnier G. (2001),
`Corporate responsibility and humanitarian principles: what relations between the
business and humanitarian worlds?', International Review of the Red Cross, 83 (844),
947­68; Fort T.L. and Schipani C.A. (2002), `The role of the corporation in foster-
ing sustainable peace', Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 35, 389­436; Orts E.W.
(2002), `War and the business corporation', Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law,
35, 549­84.
Extracted below, the First Geneva Convention (75 UNTS 31), Second (75 UNTS
85), Third (75 UNTS 135) and Fourth (75 UNTS 287) were concluded in 1949 and
entered into force during 1950. Collectively they constitute (together with the two
Additional Protocols ­ see below) ...