According to recent legal developments, to be declared an “armed conflict”, then, the armed confrontation must reach a minimum level of intensity and the parties involved must show a minimum level of organization. By way of contrast, non-international armed conflicts are protracted armed confrontations between governmental armed forces and the forces of one or more armed groups, or between such groups arising on the territory of the state. International Humanitarian Law (IHL), for example, proposes that international armed conflicts exist whenever there is a resort to armed force between two or more states. The legal determination of what constitutes an international and internal armed conflict is comparatively straight-forward. Part one can be found here.ĭeveloping a new framework to measure violence “tipping points” This is part two of a memo was prepared for a WPF seminar on “New Wars, New Peace” held at the Fletcher School, January 12-13 2012.
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