Committee: SPECPOL (Special Politics and Decolonization Committee)

Topic: Emphasizing Proportionality and Distinction in Armed Conflict

Country: Jordan
Delegate: XXX
Jus ad bellum is sometimes considered a part of the laws of war. We are dealing
with jus in bello or justice during war; this is what is known in modern times as
international Humanitarian law (IHL). International humanitarian law is a set of rules
which seek, for humanitarian reasons, to limit the effects of armed conflict.
International humanitarian law is part of international law, which is the body of rules
governing relations between States.
Jordan believes that in some countries wars are still going on in populated areas like
in Gaza many of the people have died because of the air strikes by Israel. As
Palestinian from Syria were banned entry to established refugee camps for Syrians,
the overcrowded Palestinian camps in Jordan opened their doors to them and to
Syrian refugees as well.
The main issue is that, due to wars many innocent civilians have been killed. Jordan
believes that this issue should be solved as much as quickly as possible. The
dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August 1945, is cruel
examples of how innocent lives are no hindrance in the prosecution of war
campaigns.
The Jordanian Armed Forces has been a strong supporter and participant of UN
peacekeeping mission. Jordan has a criminal law that any serviceman who, during
wartime, cruelly injures innocent residents in an area of military operation, they will
be imprisoned for some years. Jordan government makes sure that the attacks on
the civilians are prohibited.
Jordan believes that the issue can be quickly get solved if we stop wars in populated
fields and stop making weapons which can be very destructive for the people living
in a particular place by using them. We should care about the civilians to decrease
the rate of loss of civilian life in wars. Israel must have drawn its own, wrong,
conclusion from past wars, and decided that international standards do not count
and in any case cannot stand in its way when waging wars against its neighbours,
including, most recently, the war on Gaza.