Legalization of Civil Wars: The Legal Institutionalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts

This article is concerned with the legal challenges of regulating civil wars in international humanitarian law. Civil war is not a term used in international law; it falls however, withing the context of the legal term 'armed conflicts not of an international character', although the short...

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Main Author: Kenneth Øhlenschlæger Buhl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Centre for Minority Issues 2009-03-01
Series:Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
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Online Access:http://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/JEMIE/2009/1-2009-Buhl.pdf
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spellingShingle Kenneth Øhlenschlæger Buhl
Legalization of Civil Wars: The Legal Institutionalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
civil wars
international humanitarian law
title Legalization of Civil Wars: The Legal Institutionalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts
title_full Legalization of Civil Wars: The Legal Institutionalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts
title_fullStr Legalization of Civil Wars: The Legal Institutionalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts
title_full_unstemmed Legalization of Civil Wars: The Legal Institutionalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts
title_short Legalization of Civil Wars: The Legal Institutionalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts
title_sort legalization of civil wars the legal institutionalization of non international armed conflicts
topic civil wars
international humanitarian law
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