More than a glossary, "A to Z" provides definitions of key terms followed by references to relevant parts of "The law" and "The law in practice" sections where the terms appear, and to the relevant rules of IHL.
- Camouflage
- Camps
- Capital punishment
- Capture
- Capture Cards
- Care
- Cease fire
- Central Tracing Agency
- Certificates
- Chaplains
- Chemical weapons
- Child soldiers
- Children
- Churches
- Civil defence
- Civil war
- Civilian internees
- Civilian objects
- Civilian population
- Civilians
- Civilians taking part in hostilities
- Clothing
- Cluster munitions
- Coercion
- Collective punishments
- Combatants
- Command responsibility
- Commanders
- Communication
- Conditions of detention
- Conduct of hostilities
- Confinement
- Conflicts not of an international character
- Consent
- Convention on bacteriological weapons
- Conventional weapons
- Convicted persons
- Correspondence
- Court
- Crimes against humanity
- Cultural property
- Culture (cultural relativism)
- Customary International Humanitarian law
- Cyber warfare