Unofficial Training of International Humanitarian Law in Iranian Civil Society

Due to human dignity and the necessities of human rights respect, we should find the best ways for promoting human rights and international humanitarian law. The Iranian civil society as one of international community member has always been eager to learn human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL). Political and economic features of Middle East add to importance of promoting and training humanitarian law in Iran. The main question is how can we institutionalize training international humanitarian law in the country like Islamic Republic of Iran? Researchers believe that official education is more helpful. Despite the author believes that the unofficial educations are more effective in institutionalizing humanitarian law in an Islamic Iran. To test this theory, the researcher uses observation, test and assessment of research results with regard to training humanitarian law in Iran. Also, texts related to official and unofficial modern education of humanitarian law, as well as modern methods for training humanitarian law will be studied and compared with traditional methods used to teach humanitarian law.