Slovakia is therefore deeply concerned about the continued blatant disrespect for international humanitarian law on the part of armed groups and State and non State actors in armed conflicts against civilians.

If the draft articles did include a definition of armed conflict, that definition should also cover non international armed conflicts, because such conflicts could also affect the ability of a State to fulfil its treaty obligations.

At a time when new kinds of conflicts are appearing in which non State bodies are filling new voids, the international arms trade is particularly disturbing.

Protocol II, which applies in non international conflicts, is more precise.

Protection of civilians, including women and children, in armed conflicts, especially from the threats of non State actors, remains the primary challenge for us to address effectively.

Extending the scope of the draft articles to non international conflicts would inevitably raise the question of how such conflicts should be defined and how the other State party to a treaty could ascertain whether or not such a conflict existed.

In the past, conflicts were largely inter State or inter empire.

A growing number of new IHL conventions apply to non international conflicts.

other non state actors

Armed non State actors

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(b) Unclear rules concerning the use of certain weapons in non international armed conflicts, although such weapons were outlawed in international armed conflicts

Complete prohibition of the use of anti personnel landmines in non international conflicts

Since international and non international armed conflicts tended no longer to be considered fundamentally different, and since many of the norms developed to address international armed conflicts were applicable to non international armed conflicts, no distinction should perhaps be made between those two types of conflict.

In such intra State conflicts, the proportion of civilian victims has increased drastically.

In non international armed conflicts, such a step would constitute important progress in law.

Involvement of non State actors

Non State or transnational actors?

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As traditional warfare gives way to modern non traditional, domestic or informal armed conflicts, the parameters of the effect of armed conflict on treaties are left in a considerable state of uncertainty.

Only in that manner can regional stabilisation and the non resumption of conflicts be guaranteed.

To do so, a distinction must be drawn between international and non international armed conflicts.

Human rights and non State actors

Human rights and non State actors

Non Member State represented by observers

One reason for the escalation in violations is the changing nature of conflicts, which are now more likely to be internal wars than inter State conflicts.

First, the rules on State responsibility should play a decisive role in resolving international conflicts.

Ending impunity for State and non State actors, including corporations, is essential.

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Non State actors posed a new challenge.

The non State actors working group of ICBL is working to involve non State actors in the movement to ban landmines.

A new wave of non international armed conflicts necessitated further reflection on the impact of such conflicts on bilateral and multilateral treaties, in order to decide whether they should be included in the definition of the term armed conflicts .

We have to understand that today's conflicts are the product of non competitive, dysfunctional economies marginalized by globalization, leading to tremendous social exclusion and environmental degradation, to the extent that the entire national market system becomes non functional and leads to the collapse of the State.

Those other things are called non state actors.

Accountability of non State actors will be discussed.

Prohibition against providing support to non State actors

The same responsibility lies with non State actors.

First, there is significant evidence that domestic hostilities in a given State can affect inter State treaties between that State and another, or potentially even between two or more completely different States other non traditional forms of armed conflict have also been shown to affect treaties, such as the cold war and small bilateral conflicts.

The cooperation of both State and non State actors is indispensable to securing this.

In this new post cold war era, internal conflicts are replacing inter State confrontations in international affairs.

Intra State conflicts are a key reason for the lack of security, of investment and of development.

Today s conflicts are primarily internal, often fought by multiple, semi autonomous armed groups within existing State boundaries.

Recommendation 145 (or the Guide) will not apply if (i) the asset or the grantor moves from an enacting State or a non enacting State to a non enacting State.