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Gangs as Non-State Armed Groups: The Central American Case [PDF]
Contemporary Security Policy, 2009 Gangs are popularly considered to be the major security threat facing the Central American region. In focusing on the origins and dynamics of gangs in the region, this article seeks to broaden conceptualizations of non-state armed groups by expanding the theoretical optic from a narrow focus on war and post-war contexts to a wider spectrum of settings,
Rodgers, Dennis, Muggah, Robert
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Urban Resources and Their Linkage to Political Agendas for Armed Groups in Cities
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 Rapid urbanisation in countries undergoing or recovering from armed conflict has imposed severe strain on public services and governance. It has also been accompanied by increasing policy and academic concern about the vulnerability of cities to armed ...
Antônio Sampaio
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Non-state Armed Groups and International Humanitarian Law
Московский журнал международного права, 2013 The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the problems associated with a significant increase in the number of private military and security companies are actively involved in armed conflict presents issues of legality of their participation in ...
I. I. Коtlyarov, Yu. V. Puzyreva
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The International Responsibility of Non-State Armed Groups: In Search of the Applicable Rules
Göttingen Journal of International Law, 2017 In the last few decades, the role of non-state armed groups has become an essential topic of analysis and discussion to better understand international humanitarian law dynamics.
Ezequiel Heffes, Brian E. Frenkel
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Intra-Party Dynamics and the Political Transformation of Non-State Armed Groups [PDF]
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2012 Although non-state armed groups are primary stakeholders in contemporary political conflicts, there has been little research into their members’ perspectives on internal factors shaping radicalisation and de-radicalisation. State and international actors
Véronique Dudouet
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The Legality of Judicial Courts Convened by Non- State Armed Groups [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2019 Establishing courts in territories under domination of non-state armed groups is one of the first actions of that groups for making order and law in that places to trial opposition soldiers, civilians and their own members.
Seyed Hesamoddin Lesani
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Perspective of the Islamic Law of War on the Armed Non-state Actors’ Militancy
Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2021 The Islamic law of war and International Humanitarian law (IHL), both aim at preserving the human dignity of combatants and non-combatants by defining the parameters for the belligerent parties in the conduct of war.
Asma Nasar Chattha
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Organized Armed Groups in a non-International Conflict and International Humanitarian Law
International Review of Law, 2021 Non-International armed conflicts in which different armed groups are involved is the dominant feature of contemporary armed conflicts. Considering the complex and changing alliances of these groups and the extension of their hostilities across borders ...
إيمان حمدان
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Walled in, Out of Sight: The Contested Urban Environment of Baghdad
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022 Between 2003–2017, multiple state and non-state factions fought for control of Baghdad, Iraq. Government-sanctioned armed groups and illegal militias each constructed and appropriated defensive architecture for their own purposes.
Bret Windhauser
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Decolonization and the Cold War
Journal of Global Strategic Studies, 2023 Throughout the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union frequently faced the dilemma of whether to recognize or to confer legitimacy upon armed insurgencies vying to overturn established civil authority.
Robert McMahon
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