![]() ![]() ![]() aims exclusively at fighting non-state actors. Foreign military assistance to rebuild national armies or militias as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Mali, the Sahel, etc. Also, all foreign military interventions, with only two exceptions, have been in armed conflicts among state and non-state actors. Now, national armed forces around the world battle almost exclusively armed non-state actors. Interstate warfare among hostile armies facing each other had reached its climax in the Cold War, only to fade away ever since. The prime risk is no longer a global war fought among states, but a global chaos resulting from armed conflicts between increasingly failing states and the spread of powerful belligerent non-state actors. The world had entered an era of violent conflicts with and among armed non-state actors. With the end of the Cold War, the global security environment underwent a silent but radical transformation: dominant threats to the security and integrity of nation-states and state alliances are no longer hostile armed forces from across their borders but armed non-states actors operating within their borders. Please see the follow-up article Void in International Law on inability of International Law to respond to the changed security landscape. This blog article focuses on the increased importance of non-state and external actors and its consequences for civilians trapped in armed conflicts. ![]() The Changing Character of Conflict Platform project explores changes in five dimensions of conflict, namely actors involved in conflict, impact of conflict on civilians, environments in which conflict takes place, methods used in conflict and resources that drive conflict. Former UN Assistant Secretary General with Political Affairs ![]()
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