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It is undeniable that the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) faces challenges from different quarters. To address these, humanitarian organizations have, in the main, pursued a direct engagement strategy with the parties to a conflict. Although this has remained the dominant strategy to date, in the last two decades the humanitarian sector has, on an ad hoc basis and without the benefit of a solid evidence base, engaged other societal actors identified as having the potential to influence parties to armed conflict, and among them religious leaders. This chapter addresses the role of these leaders in influencing compliance (or lack thereof) with IHL by States and non-State armed groups. In particular, two issues are explored: 1) what makes religious leaders influential among their constituencies?, and 2) how can they be useful actors to increase respect for IHL in armed conflict?

El texto analiza diversos institutos del derecho internacional que impactan sobre la forma en la que se regula el accionar de los grupos armados, a la luz del marco teórico de la fragmentación del ordenamiento jurídico. Fil: Kotlik, Marcos David. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Heffes, Ezequiel. No especifíca

El derecho a la verdad, en tanto concepto jurídico, ha surgido en diferentes ámbitos nacionales, regionales e internacionales de protección de los derechos humanos. Se refiere a la obligación estatal de proporcionar información a las víctimas, a sus familias y a la sociedad en su conjunto sobre las circunstancias en las cuales ocurrieron graves violaciones a los derechos humanos. La verdad es analizada, entonces, como consecuencia de un proceso que involucra la búsqueda de la justicia y el dictado de sentencias que tengan un fin netamente reparador. No obstante, para los sistemas internacionales de salvaguarda tal derecho no ha sido claramente reconocido, al menos de forma convencional. Su mención en estos es escasa y ambigua. Por estos motivos, el presente trabajo tendrá por objeto observar cómo el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos ha delimitado el derecho a la verdad, tomando como estudio de caso la masacre de El Mozote, El Salvador, en 1981, la cual todavía hoy se encuentra impune, dejando a la sociedad salvadoreña sin justicia ni reparación pero, fundamentalmente, sin memoria., The right to truth, as a legal concept, has emerged in different national, regional and international settings of human rights protection. It refers to the state’s obligation to provide information to the victims, their families, and the society as a whole, about the circumstances in which gross human rights violations were committed. The truth is analyzed, therefore, as the consequence of a process involving the search of justice and the issue of rulings that have a merely reparational goal. However, for the safeguard international systems, this right has not been clearly recognized, at least in a conventional manner. Its mention in these systems is limited and ambiguous. Therefore, this paper aims to study how the Human Rights Inter-American System has defi ned the right to truth, taking as study case the El Mozote Massacre, which took place in El Salvador in 1981. This event still today remains unpunished, leaving the Salvadorian society without justice or reparation, but fundamentally without memory.