Author: Dr. Knut Dormann PDF: The Role of Nonstate Entities in Developing and Promoting International Humanitarian Law Abstract/Intro: In recent years, both states and nonstate entities, the number of which has increased, have found ways to stimulate debate about how to interpret, apply, and clarify international humanitarian law (IHL). The development, interpretation, and clarification of IHL have largely occurred not so much through treaty making, but through other, non-leg

Author: Dr. Gloria Gaggioli PDF:Targeting Individuals Belonging to an Armed Group Abstract/Intro: In the context of non-international armed conflicts (NIACs), individuals belonging to an organized armed group are generally considered targetable based on their membership in such a group. There would be no need to prove that they are directly participating in hostilities in order to consider their targeting compliant with international humanitarian law (IHL). Targeting based on