Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

ARMED CONFLICT (INTERSTATE CONFLICT - is military conflict in which at…

- - - - Just cause, i.e. Self-Defence
      - Legitimate authority - using military not terrorist organisations
      - Intensions of restraint, and willingness to accept peace when aims of war complete
      - Publicly declared reasons for war, and conditions for its end (ensures justice)
      - Every other option has been explored, and war is the last resort, e.g. tried diplomacy and economic sanctions
      - Reasonable chance of success
    - - Non-combatants cannot be targeted. (civilians, registered non-combatant, e.g. Army Chaplin or medic)
      - Proportionally; minimum force needed to achieve objectives must be used, similar idea to constraint
  - - - Primary method of conflict resolution between states
      - Ambassador and embassy system used to communicate between states
      - Can take many different forms, through UN and between the states directly or through a third or fourth party
      - May involve a third party intermediary where conflict between states already exists
    - - Under the jurisdiction of the UNSC
      - States myst agree for troops to come in
      - Troops have a strict mandate and will not do anything from outside the rules or the state can withdraw consent and leave
    - - Intervention ranges from low coercion methods (speeches, economic aid) to highly coercive methods (supply of arms, military invasion)
      - Occupation violates sovereignty, is unpopular with domestic populations, and draws criticism (and even violent resistance) against the occupying state
      - Complicated: How much money willing to sacrifice, how many civilians willing to let die, how many of your own civilians in danger?
      - For intervention to be successful, it requires military occupation
- - - - There is an economically disadvantaged group
      - Very rich compared to very poor - poor will feel excluded from society in some way and the only resolution is violence
    - - Access to environmental resources (water), environmental destruction, farmland dispute
    - - Different ethnic backgrounds (including religion) may feel excluded from society
    - - People feel the only way to get justice is through violence
    - - Different ways of identifying yourself from others that does not fit into other categories
    - - People feel/ be physically threatened by their government or another group in society
  - - - Intervention needs to be requested by state
      - Responsibility to protect
      - The causes of the conflict can make responding difficult
      - Would armed intervention work? Mediation?
    - - Deterrence
      - Justice
      - Breaking the cycle of violence
- - - - War lord from the Democratic Republic of Congo
      - Arrested on charges of war crimes (Article 8 of Rome Statute) in 2006 (accused of enlisting child soldiers)
      - Trial began 26th of January 2009
      - Convicted on the charge of war crimes March 2012
      - Sentenced to 14 years imprisonment
      - Currently imprisoned in Congo
  - - - The accused must be a national of a state party to the Rome Statute
      - The alleged crime must have occurred on the territory of a State Party
      - A situation in a non-member state is referred to the Court by the UN Security Council
      - A state not party to the Rome Statute accepts the ICC's jurisdiction