Geneva Convention is an European legal matrix, formulated under Western, Protestant moral value system. The West like to, and would want the rest of the world to, imagine their legal agreement as something universal in value and force to be applicable even for societies of non-European sociocultural value systems and worldviews. If a nation of a differing sociocultural matrix desires to participate in Western political and economic infrastructure, like Turkey, I can understand the West imposing their views and demanding submission under their legal system. But claiming universality of a regional legal and moral perspective upon all 6 billions souls on this planet is delusional and impractical.
The reason for many African states existing on a trajectory of failure and cyclical "revolutions" is because these nations are not nations at all. The borders of these so-called African nations are concocted from colonial administrative convience, not developed from cultural and political realities. That the economy of Africa is purely based on resource extraction reflects the arbitrary boundaries of their mercantile, colonial past. If the West sincerely desire to help the Africans and the Arabs, then they would negotiate redrawing of these nation-state borders along tribal, ethnic, cutural, and political realities. Failing that option, the next best course would be to support existing political regimes in crushing dissent and rebellion to impose social stability in these areas. Currently, the West neither supports existing regimes, in fact they actively undermine these regimes, nor desire stable reorganisation of these colonial remnants because Africa and the Middle East is perceived by the West as merely bottomless warehouses for raw materials to feed into their factories.
The export of pernicious Western humanism to socioculturally incompatible regions of the planet has resulted in instability and chaos. Even within the EU, the member states do not agree with Western, Prostestant, humanist value system, upon which many of EU legal framework is founded. The ISIS ought to have been a predicted and expected reaction to 50-plus years of Western humanism exported and imposed upon alien sociocultural matrices, but the hubris of self-righteousness caused the West to be blind. The influx of mass migrants into Europe may be their comeuppance for their hubris, but continued mass importation of refugees will result in Europe fragmenting into tribal and ethnic enclaves, with vast areas of Africa and Middle East becoming population denuded deserts. It is a future favorable neither to the Europeans nor the refugees.
RE: Europe's Quid pro Quo