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Combat Motivation in Non-State Armed Groups
Terrorism and Political Violence, 2007Existing analyses of non-state armed-group combat motivations are inadequate because they essentialize combat motivation, fail to recognize the polymorphous character of non-state warfare, and confound agency and structure by equating individual combatant motivation with the context of the conflict.
Rune Henriksen, Anthony Vinci
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Non-State Armed Groups and Reparations
2023Abstract Non-State armed groups have often been ignored as being responsible actors in making reparations or derided as not having sufficient capacity to make such redress to their victims. This chapter explores how armed groups do engage in reparations during war and peacetime for a range of motivations and how this can inform ...
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Supporting Non-State Armed Groups: A Resort to Illegality?
Journal of Strategic Studies, 2009Abstract 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
Belgin San-Akca
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ICRC Engagement with Non-State Armed Groups
International Review of the Red Cross, 2020ICRC Position Paper March 2021.
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The Status of Non-State Armed Groups in Armed Conflicts
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018The International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is historically directed towards regulation of armed conflicts by the States. As custodians and primary actors of international law the States decide the rules and laws which will be followed by them in practise. The rules agreed upon by the states are however enforceable upon those entities which come under the
Asif Khan, Pervaiz Khan
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Introduction: The Challenge of Non-State Armed Groups
Contemporary Security Policy, 2009The 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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Engaging non-state armed groups in humanitarian action
International Peacekeeping, 2006Formal actors are faced with vast shortcomings in articulating a legal foundation for engaging non-state armed groups. This essay addresses the difficulties, differences and commonalities for state and non-state actors in engaging with non-state armed groups.
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Detention by Non-State Armed Groups under International Law
2022During armed conflict, non-State armed groups deprive individuals of their liberty. While this is not a new phenomenon, its pervasiveness is reflected by recent examples in Colombia, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Yet, examining these activities goes beyond its mere acknowledgment. It involves questions concerning
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