Egyptian Soctety of Interntional Law | ||||
| المجلة المصرية للقانون الدولى | ||||
| Volume 72, Issue 72 - Serial Number 1, 2016, Page 587-635 PDF (1.7 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejil.2016.297651 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Noha Bakr | ||||
| دكتوراه فى القانون الدولى العام | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The international community has never succeeded in developing an accepted comprehensive definition of terrorism. During the 1970s and 1980s, the United Nations attempts to define the term failed mainly due to differences of opinion between various members about the use of violence in the context of conflicts over national liberation and self-determination. The 1977 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, recognized in Article 1. Paragraph 4(1) ". in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination and alien occupation and against racist regimes..." this paragraph in article 1 contains many ambiguities on the issue of who is, or is not a legitimate combatant. Hence depending on the perspective of the state a resistance movements, may or may not be labeled terrorist group, based on whether the resistance movement are considered | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| القانون الدولى | النزاعات المسلحة الدولية | الإرهاب | مكافحة الإرهاب | ||||
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