Noting the devastation military conflict causes,
Pleased with the protections already granted to civilians in conflict zones, yet,
Concerned that the indirect effects of war pose a serious risk to innocent populations,
Observing that the difference between continued crumbling of a war-torn area and eventual stability often rests on the restoration of infrastructure critical to civilian survival,
Believing that territories that do not stabilize often fall to violence, disease, turmoil, and insurgency to the detriment of the World Assembly’s aim for peace and economic benefit,
The World Assembly enacts the following:
- "Critical services" are all infrastructure, systems, or devices whose failure or disruption will endanger civilians, which include, but are not limited to, potable water access, sanitation facilities, crops and livestock, food supplies, public health and emergency response activities, transportation routes, and power generation and transmission;
- Member states may not deliberately target or negligently destroy critical services of a belligerent nation during armed conflict when those services:
- are indispensable for civilian health and safety, or
- are exclusively used by civilians,
- except where those services are restored in a timely manner by the attacking nation so as to render their denial a mere inconvenience and not a credible risk to health and safety.
- Member states must refrain from targeting or impacting critical services when there is not an insurmountable and immediate military necessity to do so;
- No belligerent member states may target infrastructure, with the sole exception of the mobile power facilities of military vessels, that contains dangerous forces or substances, such as dams or nuclear power plants, if such an attack will cause an uncontrolled release of the mechanism of danger;
- Member states that accidentally or negligently destroy the aforementioned infrastructure must take immediate steps to reduce further civilian casualties and contain dangerous forces or substances, as per international law.
- Member states who's belligerents accidentally or negligently destroy the aforementioned infrastructure may not harry, disrupt, or attack those belligerent forces taking immediate steps to reduce civilian casualties and contain those dangerous forces or substances, per this resolution, except that member states may suspend their obligation under this section if the belligerent's destruction of infrastructure containing dangerous forces or substances perfidiously take military advantage of this protection.
- Requires member states to consider actions or conspiracy to act in contravention of the above requirements illegal war crimes, and prosecute offenders accordingly, and, where a guilty verdict is rendered, punish the offender sufficiently to deter future wrongful acts by other potential offenders.
