IAFS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Protocol Ii, Al-Qaeda, Asymmetric Warfare
21 Dec 2016
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Enhancing compliance with international law by armed non-state actors. Authors: annyssa bellal and stuart casey-maslen improve the protection of civilians in armed conflict. Limited engagement with such actors, as well as lack of clarity as to the precise nature and extent of the international legal regimes that are applicable to them, constitute significant barriers to achieving better compliance. Enhancing compliance with international norms by armed non-state actors is central to efforts to. What is needed? i. a greater engagement with armed non-state actors. Any armed group, distinct from and not operating under the control of the state or states in which it carries out military operations, and which has political, religious, or military objectives ii. examples of ansa. Todays conflicts are mostly qualified under international humanitarian law as being of non-international character i. a state against one or several ansa. Or even a conflict among different ansas in a failed state.
