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Challenges To Compliance With International Humanitarian Law In The Context Of Contemporary Warfare, Morgan Kelley
Challenges To Compliance With International Humanitarian Law In The Context Of Contemporary Warfare, Morgan Kelley
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The changing nature of warfare in the 21st century poses a multitude of challenges to the perceived applicability of International Humanitarian Law for both State and non-State actors in contemporary conflicts. These issues, including but not limited to: ambiguity in the distinction of violent conflict, the changing type of actors involved, issues of asymmetric warfare, challenges of negative reciprocity, and an inhibited ability to engage with all parties to conflict, are detrimental to the overriding purpose of IHL. Still, the oftentimes inefficient nature of the international system, as well as lack of consensus regarding new legislation means that formal …