The phrase
"armed conflict" refers to a situation where two or more groups engage in a fight or war using weapons.
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He concludes that current technology is incapable being operated within the existing framework of the law
of armed conflict.
At the same, if you're a teenage boy, living in the center of the greatest
armed conflict in the history of the world, you don't want to flee.
As a result, many end up on the street, become involved in crime, or are drawn back
into armed conflict.
But in the absence of such means, the tradition of just war views
armed conflict as an appropriate way to resist evil, protect innocent lives and restore just social relationships.
The 2014 release will put players in the middle of
armed conflict where it will be cops and criminals fighting each other.
For instance, to create a new country you will inevitably need to make an existing country smaller, which creates legal and political problems, not least when
armed conflict arises.
He is currently working on various personal projects focused on social issues and the consequences of
armed conflicts around the world.
The crushing burdens of war must be carried not only during the
actual armed conflict but also when there is no open combat.
If developed, they will
permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and faster than humans can comprehend.
He said the doctrine of combat immunity should be «narrowly construed» and not «extended from actual or
imminent armed conflict» to earlier failures.
No matter the scale of these changes, existing international human rights law and international humanitarian law governing the conduct of
armed conflict remain applicable.
Indeed,
armed conflict in that nation prohibits outside scientist from visiting to safely conduct any kind of field research.
Such recognition is a way of breaking the silence generated
by armed conflict, injustice and exclusion.
This raises the question of how to address human rights concerns with these weapons, particularly their use in law enforcement, border control and other circumstances outside
of armed conflict.
• Al Waheed v Ministry of Justice; a leapfrog appeal to the Supreme Court on the scope of Article 5 in the
non-international armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (as a pupil assisting Karen Steyn QC and Julian Blake).
Twelve pillars in front of the cathedral commemorate thousands who disappeared or were murdered during Guatemalan
internal armed conflicts in the 1960s.
The Geneva Conventions apply to international
armed conflicts between state parties (Ukraine and Russia are both parties).
In an effort to reinforce the value of Canadian citizenship, proposed amendments would enable the government to revoke Canadian citizenship from dual citizens for membership in an armed force or organized armed group engaged in
armed conflict with Canada, and deny citizenship to permanent residents for the same reasons.
I thought as I was reading, the US had the «bomb» which was the single most important opposition to the Red Army completing its Western push as the Allied Armies rapidly disbanded after the European
armed conflict ended.
The authors find that «more than 80 percent of the world's
major armed conflicts from 1950 to 2000 occurred in regions identified as the most biologically diverse and threatened places on Earth.»
I was not referring only to halal slaughter, indeed, I was mentioning HERE the only justification
for armed conflict within Islam.
But despite the tension surrounding the matter, exacerbated by the recent release of a Kremlin document suggesting the possibility of
armed conflict within a decade, there is growing evidence that any disputes will be worked out through cooperation and not confrontation.
The kinds of natural disasters that global warming will create more of — droughts, cyclones, forest fires — seem to
trigger armed conflict in countries that are already ethnically factionalized, he said.
Johnson's thesis is that much of American literature and thought about war in the 20th century is of limited relevance to the typical forms of
contemporary armed conflict and the changing shape of the international order.
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, more than 270,000 of the 1.65 million veterans of U.S.
armed conflicts since 11 September 2001 have claimed education benefits for degree programs, including more than 13,000 graduate students.
While armed conflict has been more prevalent in Africa than in other parts of the world over the past decade, African leaders certainly do not hold a monopoly on the commission of war crimes.
In case of
armed conflicts not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply the prohibitions and restrictions of this Protocol.
He told Premier: «Sadly, an increasing number of both international and non-international
armed conflicts going on around the world to date are displaying a religious dimension.
In seeking to explain the commencement of
armed conflicts among nations, writings from our century are far more likely to emphasize «environmental» causes, such as, of course, economics, than the freewill decisions of various leaders or the power of ideas.
LAWS will lower the threshold of going to war resulting in
armed conflict no longer being a measure of last resort.
Dr Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and
Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford, and a Board Member of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD).
The adoption of mass protest
over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.
A second aim of the chapter is to describe the relevant law of
armed conflict principles applicable to new weapon systems, with a particular focus on the unique legal challenges posed by autonomous weapons.
U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown added, «Schools should never be theatres of war but should be safe havens for boys and girls,» while Special Representative of the Secretary - General for Children and
Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui stated frankly, «After three weeks of conflict, no one can doubt that there are no safe places for the children of Gaza.»
Not long after, word comes back to Montse that he has died there in one of the many
armed conflicts after the death of Franco.
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