Title: Changes in the scope of non-international armed conflict resulting from the Additional Protocols of 1977
Abstract: In 1977, driven by developments in armed conflict subsequent to the Second World War, there was a major revision and updating of the Geneva Conventions. Two protocols to the Conventions, one dealing with international armed conflict, the other dealing with non-international armed conflict, were adopted at a diplomatic conference convened by the Swiss Federal Council. The existence of the two protocols, and the distinctions between them, highlight the importance of the issue of thresholds of armed conflict with respect to the implementation of international humanitarian law. In a number of respects, the two Additional Protocols refine and complicate issues relating to the determination of the existence of armed conflict.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-04-08
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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