A common enemy: aggregating intensity in non-international armed conflicts

ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog · May 20, 2021 · 18m

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…