This general expression covers confrontations between
- two or more States (See International armed conflict);
- a State and a body other than a State (See War of national liberation);
- a State and a dissident faction (See Non-international armed conflict);
- two or more organized armed groups within a State (See Non-international armed conflict).
See also International armed conflict; Non international armed conflict; National liberation wars; Application For Armed conflict at sea, see: Naval warfare For armed conflict in air, see: Air warfare
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- International Law Commission, Articles on State Responsibility [Part A., Art 8 and Commentary]
- ICTY, The Prosecutor v. Tadic [Part A., paras 67-70 and 96; Part E., paras 37-100]
- ICTY, The Prosecutor v. Boskoski
- ICTR, The Prosecutor v. Jean-Paul Akayesu [Part A., para. 601]
- ECHR, Hassan v. UK
- Iran, Victim of Cyber warfare
- South Sudan: Medical Care Under Fire
- United Kingdom, The Case of Serdar Mohammed (High Court Judgment)
- ECHR, Al-Jedda v. UK
- ECHR, Al-Skeini et al. v. UK
- Syria, Press conference with French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin
- ICRC, International Humanitarian Law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts in 2015 [paras 71, 73-79]
- Israel/Palestine, Operation Protective Edge (Gaza, 13 June - 26 August 2014)
- United Kingdom, The Case of Serdar Mohammed (Court of Appeal and Supreme Court Judgments)
- Mali, Accountability for the Destruction of Cultural Heritage
- El Salvador, Supreme Court Judgment on the Unconstitutionality of the Amnesty Law
- United States, Jurisprudence Related to the Bombing of the U.S.S. Cole
- Iraq/Syria/UK, Drone Operations against ISIS
- ICC, Confirmation of Charges against LRA Leader
- ICRC, Statement - War in Cities ; What is at Stake?
- Colombia Peace Agreement
- UN/Colombia, Human Rights Committee Clarifications and Concluding Observations (2016)
- International Criminal Court, Trial Judgment in the Case of the Prosecutor V. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo
- Belgium, Prosecution of Terrorist Crimes in the context of Armed Conflict
- ECJ, Aboubacar Diakité v. Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides
- Germany, Aerial Drone Attack in Mir Ali/Pakistan
- Eastern Ukraine, Attacks Against and Military Use of Schools
- Eastern Ukraine, OHCHR Report on the Situation: November 2016 - February 2017
- Central African Republic/Democratic Republic of Congo/Uganda, LRA attacks
- Central African Republic, Coup d'Etat
- Iraq, Crimes by Militia Groups
- Central African Republic, No Class: When Armed Groups Use Schools
- Kenya, Civilian Carnage
- Syria: Attacks on Oil Infrastructure
- South Sudan, The Nuer “White Armies”
- South Sudan, Activities of Oil Companies
- The Netherlands/Ukraine, Classification of the Situation and Combatant Status (2014)
- Mexico, Recapture of Ovidio Guzmán, One of the Leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel
- The Netherlands, Fighting in the Chora District (Afghanistan)
- United States, The US Plan to Mitigate Civilian Harm in Armed Conflicts
- Colombia, Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Extrajudicial Executions in Casanare
- United Kingdom, Unlawful Killings in Afghanistan
- Switzerland, Swiss Federal Criminal Court Finds Liberian Commander Guilty of War Crimes
- Somalia, The Death of Bilal Al-Sudani
- Nepal, Torture and Extra-Judicial Killing of a Child in the Context of the Nepalese Conflict
- Colombia, Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Crimes against the Environment in Cauca
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
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DAHL Arne Willy & SANDBU Magnus, “The Threshold of Armed Conflict”, in Revue de droit militaire et de droit de la guerre, Vol. 3-4, No. 45, 2006, pp. 369-388
O’CONNELL Mary Ellen, Defining Armed Conflict”, in Journal of Conflict & Security Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2008, pp. 393-400
SCHINDLER Dietrich, “The Different Types of Armed Conflicts According to the Geneva Conventions and Protocols”, in Collected Courses, Vol. 163, 1979, pp. 153-156.
STEWART James G., “Towards a Single Definition of Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law: a Critique of Internationalized Armed Conflict”, in IRRC, No. 850, June 2003, pp. 313-349
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