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Nudging Armed Groups: How Civilians Transmit Norms of Protection

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2013
What are the varying roles that norms play to either enable or constrain violence in armed conflict settings? The article examines this question by drawing on experiences from communities and armed groups in Colombia and Syria.
Oliver Kaplan
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Improving the Safety of Civilians: A protection training pack [PDF]

, 2008
This training pack is intended to help humanitarian workers to improve the safety of civilians being subjected to violence, coercion, or deliberate deprivation. The pack includes modules on: What is protection?
Hastie, Rachel, Swithern, Sophia
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Protection of Civilians and Treatment of Prisoners during War are at Stake: A Comparative Study

Journal of Current Social and Political Issues
The atrocities of Israel's aggression perpetrated from 07 October 2023 on the civilian population and the treatment of prisoners of war shocked the world. Western governments have encouraged Israel to continue its tyranny.
Mohammed Houmine
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The (self) protection of civilians in South Sudan: Popular and community justice practices

African Affairs, 2020
Over the past decade, a body of scholarship on civilian self-protection (CSP) has emerged, advancing understandings of civilian agency in war. In this article, we argue that CSP has been conceptualized in a narrow manner, reflecting the nascent status ...
E. Rhoads, Rebecca Sutton
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Military Court Trials of Civilians in Pakistan: Constitutional Rights, International Obligations and Sustainable Justice

Policy Perspectives, 2023
The call to try civilians in military courts in 2022 reignited the debate surrounding the legitimacy of quasi-judicial tribunals, and their exercise of jurisdiction over civilians. Regarding trials of civilians in military tribunals, there have been many
Muhammad Hassan
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Protection of Civilians in War: The Role of International Humanitarian Law

Journal of Law
International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is a compilation of laws aimed at limiting the consequences of armed conflict for humanitarian purposes. It safeguards those that are not or are no longer involved in fighting and limits the arms and tactics of ...
Gawhar Ahmad Khan
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Protection of Civilians in International Humanitarian Law

International Journal of Social Sciences and Public Administration
This paper will discusse the historical development of the protection of civilians in international humanitarian law and summarizes the importance of the protection of civilians in international humanitarian law.
Fangnan Chen
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United Nations, Protection, and the securitization of violence against civilians : A critical security analysis of the politics of protection [PDF]

, 2020
This master’s thesis examines how violence against civilians has become a matter of international peace and security for the United Nations (UN), how the UN protects civilians and what social and political implications does this protection enterprise ...
Sookari, Tommi
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Protecting Civilians: A cornerstone of Middle East peace [PDF]

, 2004
Civilians are paying a high price for the escalating violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories. Hundreds of innocent lives are being lost and hundreds of thousands deprived of their basic rights as the security situation deteriorates. A
Maycock, Katherine, Menuchin, Ishai, Hill, Andy   +2 more
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Who really protects civilians?

, 2006
Current debate tends to suggest that the protection of civilians is something 'done to' the passive recipients of international largesse. Whether in terms of macro-level interventions of the UN Security Council or micro-level attempts to reduce the ...
Bonwick, Andrew
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