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Peer-reviewed legal scholarship from West Support's team on international humanitarian law and the classification of armed conflict.
Rethinking International Armed Conflict: Legal Challenges in the Age of Hybrid Warfare
Oleksandr Havryshuk & Roman Hryshchenko
Brooklyn Journal of International Law, vol. 51, p. 255 (2026) · Peer-reviewed
In 2025 the ICRC counted more than 120 active hostilities across over sixty countries, involving upwards of 130 non-state armed groups. The test for identifying an international armed conflict dates to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and states that start wars ha…
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