![]() Humanitarian organizations must therefore understand the specificity of humanitarian identification, notification, and protection framework as well as processes framed under IHL versus the non-binding and military centred “deconfliction” system. The aim is to stir mitigation and negotiation process in case a party to the conflict consider that a location may have lost its IHL protected status due to specific circumstances and have been used to commit act(s) harmful to the enemy.ĭeconfliction mechanism differs from identification and notification procedures as envisaged in the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, mainly because “deconfliction” – although is aimed at reinforcing “protection against attacks and incidental effect of attacks under international humanitarian law” – is not an IHL but a purely military term. Organization such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) try to maintain a direct contact with parties to the conflict and to only transfer GPS coordinates of location directly under their responsibility. However, this OCHA mechanism is self-declaratory and does not entail the control by OCHA on the effective nature of the various “deconflicted” locations. In many instances such as in Syria and Yemen, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) plays a central role in compiling and transferring to parties to the conflict huge database listing the coordinates of all kinds of humanitarian, medical and civilian’s locations given by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and authorities. Practically speaking, humanitarian “deconfliction” often takes the form of a list of global positioning system (GPS) coordinates shared by humanitarian organizations with militarized actors. The UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs later referred to the establishment of a humanitarian notification systems (HNS). It urges states and parties to the conflict to integrate practical measures for the protection of the wounded and sick and medical services into the planning and conduct of their military operations. This procedure has been promoted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the wake of its resolution 2286 on the protection of the medical mission in 2016. Knowledge of and reference to the IHL framework governing humanitarian identification and notification is required to ensure that humanitarian notification is not turned into de facto military clearance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Deconfliction also differs from the additional rules of IHL governing the special protection of the medical mission that includes the identification and notification of protected medical facilities, transport and personnel as well as the use of protective emblem. These duties are framed under the principles of distinction, precaution and proportionality that prohibits direct or indirect killing of civilians and other assimilated person such as impartial humanitarian personnel. It differs from the military duties imposed by IHL for the general protection afforded to civilians during the conduct of hostilities. ☞ Deconfliction refers to ad hoc military security procedure aimed at preventing mistaken attacks and killing of soldiers belonging to the same or to an allied party to an armed conflict. ![]()
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