| ab | Appellate Body (wto) |
| ABiH | Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| ad | Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases |
| aj | Appeals Chamber Judgment |
| ap i | Protocol (i) Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol i), 8 June 1977 |
| ap ii | Protocol (ii) Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol ii), 8 June 1977 |
| arsiwa | Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, adopted by the International Law Commission at its 53rd session in 2001 |
| cccw | Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons |
| cddh | Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts (1974–1977) |
| CoE | Council of Europe |
| cpc | Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict with Regulations for the Execution of the Convention 1954 (The Hague Convention) |
| cpk | Communist Party of Kampuchea |
| cpw | Circumstance Precluding Wrongfulness |
| DoD | Department of Defence |
| eccc | Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia |
| echr | European Convention on Human Rights |
| ecosoc | United Nations Economic and Social Council |
| ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| eecc | Ethiopia-Eritrea Claims Commission |
| fm 27-10 | US Field Manual of the Law of Land Warfare of 1956 (amended 1976) |
| gatt | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| gc i | Convention (i) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, adopted in Geneva on 12 August 1949 (Geneva Convention i) |
| gc ii | Convention (ii) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, adopted in Geneva on 12 August 1949 (Geneva Convention ii) |
| gc iii | Convention (iii) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, adopted in Geneva on 12 August 1949 (Geneva Convention iii) |
Convention (iv) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, adopted in Geneva on 12 August 1949 (Geneva Convention iv) |
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| hpcr | Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University |
| hr | Regulations Concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land, annexed to Convention (iv) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, adopted in The Hague on 18 October 1907 (The Hague Regulations) |
| hvo | Croatian Defence Council (Hrvatsko vijeće obrane) |
| icc | International Criminal Court |
| iccpr | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| icescr | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| ichl | International Cultural Heritage Law |
| icj | International Court of Justice |
| icl | International Criminal Law |
| icrc | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| icsid | International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes |
| icty | International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
| ictr | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| idf | Israel Defence Forces |
| iel | International Environmental Law |
| ihl | International Humanitarian Law |
| iihl | International Institute of Humanitarian Law |
| ilc | International Law Commission |
| imt | International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg |
| loac | Law of Armed Conflicts |
| low | Law of War |
| lrtwc | Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals (selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947–1949) |
| mena | Middle East and North Africa |
| minusma | United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali |
| nato | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| niac | Non-International Armed Conflict |
| pcij | Permanent Court of International Justice |
| pmsc | Private military and security company |
| pow | Prisoner of War |
| riaa | Reports of International Arbitral Awards |
| rts | tv and radio station in Belgrade (Radio televizija Srbije) |
| scsl | Special Court for Sierra Leone |
| sict | Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal |
Special Tribunal for Lebanon |
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| tj | Trial Chamber Judgment |
| twcccl | Trials of War Criminals before Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10 (US Government Printing Office, 1946–1949) |
| uncc | United Nations Compensation Commission |
| unep | United Nations Environment Programme |
| unesco | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| unga | United Nations General Assembly |
| unhcr | United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| unsc | United Nations Security Council |
| unwcc | United Nations War Crimes Commission |
| vclt | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties |
| whc | Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention) |
| wto | World Trade Organization |
| 2HP | Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1999) |