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Defining Armed Conflict

Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 2008
Within hours of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, President George W. Bush declared “a global war on terrorism”. Experts around the world assumed this declaration was a rallying cry, a rhetorical device to galvanize the nation to serious action.
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Disaster risk reduction amidst armed conflict: informal institutions, rebel groups, and wartime political orders.

Disasters. The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management, 2018
Extant research has explored the effect of natural hazards on the risk of armed conflict, but very few studies have examined how conflict dynamics affect disaster risk reduction (DRR), including climate change adaptation.
Colin Walch
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Chapter 5: The Concept of “Armed Conflict” in International Armed Conflict

2012
There are a number of treaties of quasi-universal application that govern the conduct of belligerents in international armed conflict. Armed conflict is the trigger concept that gets the rules of international humanitarian law to operate and to override some of the peacetime rules of international law. This chapter tries to identify possible parameters
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14. The law of armed conflict

2017
This chapter examines those parts of international law that regulate how military operations must be conducted—jus in bello. It begins in Section 14.2 with an overview of the most important legal sources. Section 14.3 discusses when humanitarian law applies and Section 14.4 examines the issue of battlefield status and the distinction between combatants
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Types of armed conflicts

2018
Prior to the adoption of the Geneva Conventions, international law distinguished between two types of armed conflict.
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Democracy and armed conflict

Journal of Peace Research, 2014
The article reviews the literature on the relationship between democracy and armed conflict, internal as well as interstate. The review points to several similarities between how democratic institutions affect both conflict types. It summarizes the main empirical findings and discusses the most prominent explanations as well as the most important ...
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Law of Armed Conflicts

1993
The Court has noted above (paragraph 77 in fine) that the United States did not issue any warning or notification of the presence of the mines which had been laid in or near the ports of Nicaragua. Yet even in time of war, the Convention relative to the laying of automatic submarine contact mines of 18 October 1907 (the Hague Convention No.
Rainer Hofmann   +4 more
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Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict

Nature, 2019
K. Mach   +13 more
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Treaties and armed conflict

2014
The present chapter considers various areas of intersection between treaties and armed conflict. Section 2 addresses the role of armed conflict in the termination, withdrawal or suspension of treaties. Subsequent sections consider aspects in the relationship between armed conflict and treaties that are premised on the continuing existence of treaties ...
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