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A common enemy: aggregating intensity in non-international armed conflicts
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:18:05
Publish Date: 2021-05-20 08:26:31
Description: Contemporary non-international armed conflicts are increasingly fought by a myriad of non-State actors, often engaging in hostilities against a common enemy and at times operating under the same coalition. These complex situations raise pivotal challenges for classification purposes, whereby applying traditional criteria might be unfeasible or lead to conclusions that do not reflect the reality on the ground. In this post, a reply to last year’s blog on the subject, Chiara Redaelli – Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Visiting Professor at Lille Catholic University, Law School – analyses the possibility to aggregate the intensity of violence of groups that fight a common enemy in a geographical and temporal continuum.
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