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Introduction: The Challenge of Non-State Armed Groups

Contemporary Security Policy, 2009
The study of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) has traditionally been limited to those actors with a political agenda that pose a specific threat to the state and undermine its ability to claim a monopoly over the legitimate use of force within its territory.
Keith Krause, Jennifer Milliken
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ICRC Engagement with Non-State Armed Groups

International Review of the Red Cross, 2020
ICRC Position Paper March 2021.
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The Responsibility to Protect and Non-State Armed Groups

2018
The Majority of chapters in this volume address the question of how legal mechanisms, situated within the ‘zone between’ international human rights and humanitarian law, can better protect civilians against both old and new threats to their security.
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Myanmar’s Non-State Armed Groups and the Prospects for Peace?

Asian Survey, 2020
Myanmar has suffered the world’s longest civil war, with continuous combat since shortly before the country’s independence from the UK in 1948. A new National Ceasefire Agreement has raised hopes that peace may finally be in sight. However, optimism should be tempered by a recognition the peace process has not built much trust, reduced the number of ...
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Constraining the Conduct of Non-State Armed Groups

2013
The majority of armed conflicts no longer take place between states, but within the territory of a single state. In 2011, intrastate conflicts accounted for more than three quarters of the conflicts worldwide (HIIK 2011: 3). In such conflicts, non-state armed groups (NSAGs) hamper processes of peace- and state-building in many ways, thereby directly ...
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Supporting Non-State Armed Groups: A Resort to Illegality?

Journal of Strategic Studies, 2009
Abstract States have suffered equally, if not more, from violence generated by Non-state Armed Groups (NAGs), such as ethnic and religious insurgencies and terrorists, than violence directly generated by their counterparts. This does not undermine the fact that states occasionally provide support to these groups in the form of safe havens, weapons, and
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Delegation, Sponsorship, and Autonomy: An Integrated Framework for Understanding Armed Group–State Relationships

Journal of Global Security Studies, 2021
Kai M Thaler
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State Presence, Armed Actors, and Criminal Violence in Central America

Sociological Quarterly, 2022
JOSÉ MIGUEL Cruz
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Non-state armed groups and state-building in the Arab region: The case of post-Gaddafi Libya

South African Journal of International Affairs, 2021
László Csicsmann, Buyisile Ntaka
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Non-state Armed Groups and Peace Agreements

2021
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