THE OBLIGATION OF THE STATE TO DISSEMINATE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

Abstract

With the gradual adoption of the documents concerning international humanitarian law,
our country is bound to their dissemination (i.e. spreading the knowledge of international
humanitarian law) both in peacetime and the periods of armed conflicts. This paper deals with the
topic of the dissemination of the knowledge of IHL as an important part of the public international
law. It focuses on the selected documents of the international humanitarian law and commitments to
disseminate their content, discusses possibilities of spreading these documents in general and
presents the current state of their dissemination – carrying out the commitments adopted by the
state; in this case focused on the dissemination in the armed forces of the Czech Republic (CR).
It also highlights the major role of the Czech Red Cross in supporting the implementation of the
commitment, and suggests several measures to improve the current situation in this field.