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War, weapons & victims : legal responses: Non-international conflict

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UN Audiovisual Library of International law includes
"The Field of Application of International Humanitarian Law: International and Non-International Armed Conflicts" by Prof Marco Sassòli University of Geneva, Switzerland

Civil wars & conflicts where the combatants are not all nation states

A legacy from the understanding that public international law dealt with the laws between states.

For overview & starter bibliography see article Armed Conflict, Non-International by Thilo Marauhn, Zacharie F Ntoubandi in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International law (link below)

Subject search terms to use in SOLO include

Civil war
Guerrillas (International law)
Terrorism (International law)

Intervention (International law)