I mple mentations and S anctions of I nternational Humanitarian L aw with E mp has is on Common Article 1 of Geneva Conventions 1949

International community, as the result of pains and tragedies arising from two World Wars in recent era, reasonably found that “Law is silent in war” and hardly sought to think about enforcement beside codification. Thus common article 1 of the 1949 Geneva conventions and its notions reiteration in the first protocol of 1977 can be treated as a progressive process that in addition to respecting the conventions provisions taking in to account its enforcement. After that all implementations and enforcements of international humanitarian law can be based upon that article. The role of this provision in the promotion of that implementations and enforcements is in so far as one can say a renaissance has happened to the protection of international humanitarian law. This article's goal is to evaluate this valuable role, although take in to account the ambiguities of the article in question.