Terrorism and international law of armed conflict: new challenges
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Terrorism is any act that is intended to cause death or serious harm to civilians or noncombatants for the purpose of compelling a government or international organization to do or refrain from any act. However, there are about one hundred and sixty definitions for the term terrorism and, due to the various political-ideological approaches to the subject, a consensus on its definition or who the terrorists are will hardly be fully understood.
International Law of Armed Conflict (TIP) is a set of customary norms that go back to the laws of war applied in the early days of relations between communities and were gradually positively pursued with two basic purposes: the limitation of means and methods used in conflict. armed forces and the protection of certain categories of people: those who are not combatants, basically civilians, and those who have stopped fighting.
This protection of people who do not take part in hostilities is based on the principle of distinguishing between who is a combatant and who is not.
To the extent that the targets of a terrorist attack are civilian people, this is the first principle of the TIP directly confronted by terrorism. But not the only one.
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