Armed Non-State Actors: Our Work

31 July 2017

Our Strategic Adviser on International Humanitarian Law, Dr Annyssa Bellal, participated on 28 and 29 July 2016 to the 'Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict', co-sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the European University Institute, the University of Texas and the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

She talked about the issue of armed groups in light of the new 2016 ICRC Commentary of article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Her presentation related to her research on armed non-state actors, which resulted in a number of publications, including our recent publication entitled 'Human Rights Obligations of Armed Non-State Actors: An Exploration of the Practice of the UN Human Rights Council'.

We continue our research on the issue of armed non-state actors in 2017 and 2018: Dr Bellal is currently concentrating on the study of the practice of armed non-state actors and its relation to international law.