Additional Protocol II : elevating the minimum threshold of intensity?

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Bradley, Martha Magdalena

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Cambridge University Press

Abstract

It is estimated that by mid-2020 there were more than fifty non-international armed conflicts in at least twenty-two different countries, of which at least six arguably meet the threshold requirements needed to trigger the application of Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions (AP II).

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Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions (AP II), Non-international armed conflicts (NIACs), Threshold requirements, Armed conflict, Intensity, Sustained military operations, Protracted armed violence, Prolonged violence, Duration of violence

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Bradley, M. 2022, 'Additional Protocol II : elevating the minimum threshold of intensity?', International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 102, no. 915, pp. 1125-1152, doi : 10.1017/S1816383121000199.